Well, I got the car today.
We had to jump it to get it started but once I drove it around a while it seems to be fine, I've restarted it several times since the jump with no problems.
Still getting used to all the stuff I never had to do before, like engage/disengage a parking brake. Okay to be fair there is what appears to be a parking brake in the Chevy but I was told it was an "emergency" brake and I never had an emergency where pulling the lever seemed to be the proper response.
Plus I've always had the shifter thingy (you know, from Park to Reverse to Neutral to Drive) on the steering column and now it's down to my right. Everytime I get in it and think I'm putting it into reverse to back out of a parking spot I end up giving the windshield a good rinse instead.
But OMG I have power windows and a CD player and I can lock and unlock it and open the trunk by pushing a button on the keychain just like a real live 21st century human! And it has an alarm that will go off and annoy my neighbors! I hope that only happens when the dude with the big SUV who thinks he needs two parking spaces is trying to take a nap.
Had a little panic attack when my sis got here to run me out and pick it up, I *know* I had the current registration card because I had to refer to it for the VIN when I was sorting out the insurance and I read it several times over to make absolutely sure the registration was current. But then when I double-checked to make sure I had everything on me today when we left I couldn't find it. All I could find was the previous year's card which I had tucked away with all the other outdated stuff. I don't know if the current card got swept up in some other papers I had on the desk, or fell down behind something... but I was able to print out something from the BMV website showing the reg is good for another month. I hope that's good enough for the time being, at least I won't get pulled over for reg issues since the sticker's on the plate.
And the AC blows nice and cold.
Nevertheless I still had a good hour total outside this afternoon cleaning out the Chevy and moving some things over to the Sonata, BRUTAL. Tried to wait until the sun got a little lower but it didn't help much. Two hours after I came back inside where the AC is running full blast, the neck of my tee shirt was still soaking wet. Ugh.
Now I will get it into the shop on Monday I hope, to have them check it over and change the oil. According to the service log - looks like mom was taking it to the dealer - it hadn't been in for routine maintenance since June 2009. No, that's not a typo. Granted it was only driven about 1000 miles between then and now, but still.
