Truck Day

Our truck has very low mileage on it - 28,000 miles - for being a 2008 vehicle. The reason is that it sits when we are not traveling and doesn't get any attention. When we are staying long term at a location it is rarely driven anywhere except to, maybe,  a grocery store just to keep the battery charged and to check it out. It was almost embarrassing to see it sitting there with dirt and grime on it so yesterday was "truck" day.

We have a car wash area here at Happy Trails where, for $2 in quarters, you can do a self wash. We used it last week for the Jeep, so today was the turn for the truck. We like using the local wash since it's cheap and they have a power wash along with 2 brushes that dispense soap while you use them. In a 15 minute  time frame, you can usually complete a wash. It didn't work that way with the truck.

Shortly after putting the 8 quarters in the machine we discovered that the wands were not dispensing much soap. Actually, they were almost completely out of soap and since it was Sunday, nobody was going to refill the containers. A 15 minute wash for the truck was not enough and we ended up just streaking the dirt on the whole vehicle.

I ended up taking it to the car wash - TNT - in Surprise where they do a good job but for a lot more money. Normally, I can get it done for about $20 - hand wash and interior cleaned - but the attendant talked me into getting a mini-detail done for a negotiated price of $50 (regularly $69.95). Great. They also have a glass salesman who repairs "dings" in windshields while you wait for your vehicle. The truck happens to have a ding that developed into a crack along the entire base of the window. I gave him the OK to contact my insurance company, GEICO, to get approval to schedule a windshield replacement. That was all done and I will get a call today to schedule a time for the glass people to come out to our site and replace the windshield in the truck.

What started out to be a simple wash for the truck  turned out to be a much more costly, but necessary, salon treatment. Maybe today we can get some things done that will be "normal" with little or no cost...