When I was a young girl of seventeen, I got my first car, a 1973 red and white Mustang. My dream car at the time was a ’67 Mustang Convertible, but I was very happy when my parents surprised me with this car. Now at the time, gas stations still had attendants. They checked the oil, the wiper blades, filled the tank, and checked the tire pressure. There was really no need to refer to my service manual for anything. What they did not do at the gas pump, my father took care of at home. And I believed in his capabilities. He is a man, and men know about cars right?
Well, a couple of years later, I learned that my dad was not all-knowing and that it was necessary for me to know how to keep up with my car’s maintenance myself. My beloved Mustang was loosing oil. My gauge indicated this and I asked my dad to check it out. He said that it was fine, that my gauge was just off. A few days later I was moving to Tempe to go to Arizona State University. I was making a trip with some of my belonging, on Interstate 17, going about 60 mph, when my car just shut off. The power steering was gone, the brakes were not responding. Luckily I was close to a freeway exit, I made if off of the freeway and with all my strength managed to turn onto a side street.
I popped the hood and my engine was smoking, the entire engine was smoking. Turns out that there was a problem and water from the radiator was somehow circulating through the engine in the place of the oil. The engine had burned and melted into one solid hunk of metal. My Mustang had truly died. I replaced my first car with a Pontiac Sunfire, repair manual tucked safely in the glove compartment. I looked over the manual and began to learn how to maintain my new-used car. I continue to do this to this day, and while I can not fix everything myself, I can at least discover when things are going wrong, and what needs to be done to fix them.
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