Fifty Minutes Later

Decided to drive it work and see where I could go from there about my coolant leak. My wife fol­lowed me in her Mom’s car in case some­thing hap­pened. I’ll spare some of the other weird hap­pen­ing of the morn­ing except to include the fact that a huge cloud of white vapor engulfed the car upon park­ing in the lot at work. At morn­ing break the IE, Chris, and I went out and started the car and looked to see if we could actu­ally see where it was leak­ing. Sure enough you could see a lit­tle drop — drop –drop com­ing from the lower heater hose. I called the two “local” Mazda deal­ers and nei­ther had the hose in stock. I called Advance Auto and they said we have one of the 2. I ran there at lunch and picked up the hose for $10. When I got back to work Chris asked if I had any luck find­ing the hose I told him yes and that I was going to call the shop right across the street to see what he’d charge me to put it in.

He said, “Don’t do that, get me a pair of pli­ers and I’ll change it in 5 min­utes.” 50 min­utes later the hose was changed. To be fair he prob­a­bly would have been done in less than 10 min­utes if I had the stock hose. The Advance Auto hose was just a generic 90 degree bend thing and was too long requir­ing trim­ming and retrim­ming and retrim­ming to fit. And because it was in such an inac­ces­si­ble spot forc­ing it on and twist­ing it only to have to remove it as a big PITA. Thanks Chris.

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