"The Truck - grrrrrr"

On Monday we left Fresno, took the Tehachapi Mountain route (rather than the Grapevine, not as steep).  Truck was doing well over the mountains. We got on 395 and right before we connected to the 15, we caught a light.  When we tried to go we had a humongous amount of black smoke and no power.  We got on the freeway and limped straight to the Ford service place.  We have been camped in their parking lot since Monday.

The bad news is that it's something different this time and they said the cost will be between $3400 and $4200! YUCK!  The good news is it ended up being the $3400 and the better news is that Ford is paying $1500 of it.  Of course if we drove in and found we had to pay $1800 to have it repaired we would have thought YIKES!  I guess it's all in the presentation - LOL!

We've looked into the Lemon Law and an attorney at our nephews law office specialized in the law at one point but after reading the information on the website, not sure if we will really qualify.  We may contact her to see what our options are.

In the meantime, they have a truck that the owner of the dealership used.  It is a 2008, has 2700 miles on it, an actual RV bed, a Caterpillar engine that is supposed to be very dependable and still under warranty because it hasn't been sold yet.  The bad news is it's a bigger engine, you feel more engine vibration and mileage towing is the same but around town is less than we get now.  So we are thinking about what we want to do.  Since our truck has been undependable and needs an RV bed so what to do!  We are going over and talk to them about it this morning.  Our truck is supposed to be ready today. 

We are going to head down to San Diego (in Fontana right now) to Pio Pico and stay there until September 1st.  We will decide what we are going to do about the truck and when we will take off again.

I received a comment from Kelly about sweet cream pancakes.  I did find this when I googled sweet cream pancakes:  cookeatshare.com/popular/flying-j-sweet-cream-pancakes-recipe.   Kelly, I also let you know where to find the batter that Flying J uses when  I responded to your comment (on my March 24th blog) if you want to check it out.  They have a great store, the original house of the family and a nice restaurant at the Mill.  Unfortunately they only sell small bags.

Being found on the blog for sweet cream pancakes..."Ain't Life Grand!"