Me Man, I Fix Car!

Yeah yeah, now Jen will be the first to tell you and make fun of me for my ability to fix the car and when I say fix I mean break it fix.

This last summer Jen calls me and tells me that water is pouring into the passenger side right behind the glove box. Well my short term solution was to put the car in the garage when it rained, problem solved...and again by solved I mean forgot about solved.

Yeah so how many of you loved the rain this last week. Rain in December is horrible, it is cold and almost impossible to get warm. Snow is much better because it tends to insulate the world in pretty white. Anyway, my lovely wife gets in the car yesterday to a pool of water splashing around from what sounds like the glove box. Everytime she hits the gas more and more water comes rushing in.

So today I go and get an oil change, I tell them the problem and ask for some direction to which I get "take off the grill and maybe you can see something, but that is a big task". So I am having nightmares about my water problem, out of need to fix something today I popped my hood and started to look around. Sure shinolies there is a hose about 18" long coming from what I am going to make a huge mental leap and call the drain hole for the front of the car. I softly pulled it off and could see it plugged up with pine needles, probably the same pine needles that keep plugging up my gutters. I grabbed my metal snake pushed all the needles out the bottom, pured some water through and heard the sound of water coming out the bottom of the car. So I did the same thing to the driver side and found that to be plugged also. No more leaks, no more plugs.

Oh by the way if your snake is metal make sure you don't touch the battery....Just saying...

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