STATISTICS! and COMPASSION!

Some of the gaps now definitely make sense (it's never really explained why the MMC's parents disowned him for marrying her, but if it's a pureblood/muggleborn thing that wouldn't have needed an explanation). I have to admit, I definitely didn't ping it the way I immediately do lately on the Ali Hazelwood-esque spate of published Reylo bullshit. Maybe I'm just much further removed from HP.

It's a hybrid, designed to either be plugged in to use it as EV-only for in town trips, or hybrid gas/electric with regenerative braking for longer trips. There was a recall on the electric battery (apparently charging it with the plug was causing fires???) and they didn't have a solution so we were just using the hybrid for a while.

I finally got a notification in December that the part was available, so I tried to take it to the closest Ford dealership before our holiday travel to get it taken care of. The whole thing was a huge pain in the ass - I made an appointment online, then when I showed up they didn't have any record of my appointment, they were like "the system says the part is available but we need to inspect the car first before we can order it" so I rescheduled again for after the holidays, and they're like "oh, that part is backordered." They wanted me to just... leave my car there indefinitely until it was available? But we only have one car so I took it back and they said they'd call me when the part was in, and then I never heard from them again.

We're coming up on our summer travel shit so I tried again, and they were like "oh yeah sure the part is available, but I need to talk to the mechanics to see when they have time available" and then they called me back and were like oh, we can't perform that work in our shop sorry and gave me a list of a few other dealerships to check out.

So I made an appointment with another place, it was originally scheduled for Friday (blah blah "we need to inspect it first then we'll do the work") but they wanted to know if they could keep it the whole weekend??? We made a plan for me to drop it off after Eclipse's vet checkup today, which I did and took the shuttle home.

And then the place just called me and was like "Yeah, Ford won't send us the recall part because the other dealership already ordered it for your VIN."

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