15,000 Miles

Some­time dur­ing the 5th run through of Deal’s Gap this past week­end the car turned over 15K. One of the other cou­ples we were with had their 2002 Miata reach that mile­stone a few days before the trip. I got there at least a year quicker than they did, but to be fair our car is the Fam­ily Truck­ster and theirs is a week­end fun toy. I guess I’ll sched­ule a main­te­nance stop at Rader for next week. I’ll give them one more shot, but three strikes and they’re out.

The clutch shud­der was very notice­able this morn­ing back­ing out of the garage, so much so it was audi­ble. As usual it is almost com­pletely gone by about the 3 mile mark of the 6 mile trip to work. If it does it like that 2 or 3 morn­ings more before the ser­vice next week, I may just say something.

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