Friday, September 5, 2008

Car blessings

It's time to have our car registered (well actually pats time) and when I took it in for the emissions and inspection they said it didn't pass emissions. I've never actually had that happen before so I asked the guy what we needed to do. He said it was our mass air flow sensor (okay whatever that is?) He showed me where to find it in the engine and said we could try cleaning it and that if we were lucky that might take care of it but that we should start praying, because id that didn't work, it was not a cheap thing to replace. Oh great just what we need when Mike has been looking for work for the last seven months.

So today I went to get the cleaner and Mike spent quite a bit of time trying to clean the part good enough that it would pass. Then I headed back to get the emissions re-done. The car was sputtering something terrible, and I was praying real hard that it would pass.

Our prayers were answered. The car passed and the sputtering stopped and we were able to get it registered. Which was a great relief since our other car won't fit our whole family.