Friday, March 9, 2007

More car frustrations

It turns out I'm not going to be able to change my insurance to having it stored in Michigan without also changing the registration to Michigan. I suppose I could reduce my current policy to theft only and give them my Illinois address, but I suspect theft coverage will be much less in St. Clair County Michigan than in Chicago (wildfowl terror networks not withstanding). But even that could be pointless, as if it is stolen, from Michigan, I'd probably have a dilly of a time explaining that claim.

Now I'm looking at cancelling it altogether (I mean, I already had one car stolen from Mom's very rural driveway in my lifetime... what are the odds, right?), or possibly just giving it up for donation before I leave.

Of course, that's all assuming it even makes it the final few weeks. I just reluctantly dumped $450 into it yesterday to get the bearings replaced and a belt adjusted, as I thought that would be enough to get it through, but it seems there's some additional noise coming, likely, from the transmission and that the rotors are pretty severely warped.

Having a car available when I return certainly would be nice, but I'm not sure its going to be worth it at this point.

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