[sueali]

We were driving on a very loong road trip and one day in to the trip our car breaks down. We had pulled into a small town in CA just across the northern Nevada Border and parked the car and went to eat dinner. We get back into the car start it drive for like 2 seconds and smell something buring. We park the car again. Start looking around for what was burning. We open the fuse box and two or three fuses had been melted. So we have one of those emergency road side kits and they had replacement fuses in them so we try to replace them( the fuses were to our tail lights) the new fuses don't work. We try to start the car so that we could drive it to a mechanic. Now the car won't get out of park at all. Apparently there is a safety mechanism that won't let you get the car out of drive. W spend the night. the next day the mechanic that we take it to is in this small CA town and he tells us that it is an electrical problem on the drivers side, and says he is not specialized in electrical and could spend hours just trying to figure out what is wrong. So he suggest we take it to the closest dealership, which is 2 hours away in Folsum CA. Yes Folsum like the prison. He fixs the car so we can drive it and we drive to Folsum.

We tell the dealership people what is wrong. Tell them it is an electrical problem and the fuses were melting. The dealership guy tells us it could take all day so we sit around, go to the movies. We come back at like 4:30 and they tell us they have to order a part from Oakland. It will be in tomorrow. Ok we tell them we aren't from here, and ask them if they have like a courtesy vehicle that could take us to a hotel (there is no bus or anything). They tell us no. I get pissed they finally decide they can find someone to drop us off.

We come back the next day they get the part, We think they are done he comes out and says I need to order another part. Fine we go through the whole process. come back the next day. And he says Oh I didn't know it was melted all the way to the front I have to order another part.

So SEVEN DAYS and me being thrown out of the office ( I have a mouth) we get our car back. They ended up giving us a deal on labor and paying for food that they had ruined ( snacks and stuff). The worst time I have ever had.