No, not my wedding anniversary, I still have 4 months to go for that anniversary. Tomorrow, the 9th, of October will mark 30 years of owning my El Camino. 374,000 miles and still going strong.
Yesterday the starter was real sluggish. Not a good thing, so I went to the Interstate store, and they tested the battery, and it tested as marginally OK, but I was there, and just splurged for a new battery. Bad batteries are not worth the headache.
When I went to leave, the starter was still sluggish. Oh crap. So I drove right to the local Autozone. I bought a guaranteed for life starter sometime after 60,000 miles original miles. I have the exact date, and mileage that the original starter went but it is pretty much irrelevant now
They used to give me a rebuilt unit, and those were crappy and failed quickly. This latest starter is 100% new, not a rebuild. The starter that was just returned was 10 years old, and was 74,000 miles of use.
It weighs 900 pounds or so, or feels like it when holding it up and trying to start a bolt to screw in. The new starter was indeed 100% free to me. Just the fun of the R&R.
On the way to get the refund on the starter a group of boys I would guess 10 or 12 years old saw me in the El Camino and two of the three were giving me thumbs up. Very smart kids with excellent taste.
