{"id":14829,"date":"2025-05-26T12:58:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T16:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=14829"},"modified":"2026-01-07T08:11:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T13:11:07","slug":"back-from-the-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/26\/back-from-the-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Back from the dead"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n
\"\"<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

I got my truck back this week. It had been in the shop for nearly 2 months. Before my last cruise I had been unable to get it to start. It turned over but didn’t fire. I figured it was a computer issue. Probably an EXPENSIVE computer issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I had it towed to the garage<\/a>. It wasn’t a priority with me and it certainly wasn’t a priority with them, so they did little or nothing before we left on the cruise. I called to make sure it was okay with them to just leave it there until I returned. It was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I thought the chances of it ever running again were low. I gave it up for dead and went on the cruise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I returned I gave them a call, expecting the worst. But, much to my surprise, they said it was running! But the guy who had the details was out and would call me back. He didn’t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was in the neighborhood of the shop the next day so I dropped in. Yes, they said, it was running fine. Great, I said. What was the problem?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“No problem that we could find. It started right up and ran fine when you brought it in.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think I gave them my best “WTF?” look. I try everything for 10 days and can’t get it to fire and the moment I bring it into the shop it fixes itself? I was dumfounded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway, I paid $168 for their diagnostic time (mostly driving around using my fuel) and took the truck home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am pretty sure that it will, sooner or later, just stop working again. Probably when it is least convenient. But for now I have a usable truck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I got my truck back this week. It had been in the shop for nearly 2 months. Before my last cruise I had been unable to get it to start. It turned over but didn’t fire. I figured it was a computer issue. Probably an EXPENSIVE computer issue. So I had it towed to the … Continue reading »<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ts_10"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-3Rb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14829"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15873,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14829\/revisions\/15873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}