Well... Let me recap:
Motorcycle went down with a bad regulator / rectifier. Got that fixed (thankfully only $30 on Flea-bay, got lucky)
Got fired that week while waiting for the regulator to arrive. Lovely, but not unexpected, and I was already planning to leave that gig anyway. No love lost. So I continued packing to move. Family arrives to help me move, takes my CRD to NYC for a field trip for my sister.
Moved back to Savannah, Ga, discover during the move that BOTH of my parent's Mercury Mariner hybrids experiencing an electrical shutdown. (Both are same 06, and over 100k miles). When the electronics in them overheats (b/c they located it in the engine bay - GENIUS
) the computer is commanded to shutdown the vehicle. Problem is caused by a failed Bosch electric water pump. Ordered one pump while driving RV (my house) back to Savannah, fixed one of the hybrids the next day. Take newly fixed hybrid on a 3-mile test drive... Get pulled over by enormous arsehole on fund-raising drive. Just what I needed. (wasn't speeding).
Sister returns to Sav with my CRD, while I take fixed hybrid down to S. FL to swap with "it only stopped one time a long time ago" other hybrid and bring that back to Sav... Hoping that I would FINALLY be able to mail off the CPUs of my CRD as my sister would now have her car back, and I could fix its pump later. 14 miles into Ga on the way up... Symptoms strand me on the side of the road for 15 minutes. Three times. *sigh*
SO.... The motorcycle works. But my sister can't ride that.
The CRD works... But it IS still having that *&^%*&%*@&$%^#*&%&^$*!@#&(&*%@$^*&^$!@!!!!!!!!! power loss issue, it returned after about 2 days on the new sensor.
The hybrid is not drivable by my sister, as it runs for an indeterminate amount of time before the pump quits and the electronics overheat. I will have to drive that until I can replace the pump. Being unemployed at the moment, that WOULD have been a perfect time to send off the computers for my CRD. Instead, I am waiting on cash to buy this redesigned pump first. Anybody want to contribute a few pennies to the fund?
So since my CRD is yet again NOT able to stop moving for more than 12 hours at a time... I am on hold. *sigh*