What a Royal Pain

The car has become one major headache for us! Like I said earlier today, Chris came over today and helped us get the car back to Centerville and to work on figuring out with the heck the issue is with it! Dan and Chris pop-started the car (yes, we drive a stick shift)... don't ask me how they pop-started the car on the freeway, I care not to know! Anyway, they pop-started the car and Dan drove it home while Chris followed behind him. Once they got home Chris figured out what the problem is with the car. Our security system! For those of you who have seen our car I am sure you wondering wondering the same thing that we are... we the heck is there a security system on our car. Needless to say, we did not know that there was a security system in our car. Apparently the security system had shorted out and caused the alternator fry, in turn draining and killing the battery. OH FUN! So at this point, taking the security system fixed the car. Dan thinks that we should test drive the car by driving it to Ogden (which is where Chris lives) and I agree seeing as it would not be the first time that it seemed to work fine and then dies. So, Dan and I go to Target to pick my prescription and a pair of swimming trunks for Nate (cute pictures to come tomorrow after we go swimming) and then we head over to Checker to see if our old alternator was indeed bad. Well, low and behold it was BAD... by bad I mean the wires were fried! So then we drive to Ogden. As we get right into Ogden, but not to our final destination, the car dies, AGAIN! We call Chris and Chris and his buddy Andy come to where we are and switch batteries out for us and we drive to Dan's Dad's house. Chris tested our new alternator once we got there and finds out that it is not putting out the wattage that it should be, essentially that we have a bad alternator. So, at the point it is looking like the alternator that we bought is bad, which is why our battery died again. Oh Joy! Chris is going to take a look at the car more tomorrow once he gets off work and will let us know. Yet again, I am hoping that it is just the alternator, because that means that we can return it and get a new one! One can only hope!!!