Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Day 14: Two Weeks and Counting

It's now been two weeks since the Fit was surrendered for the airbag recall. It seems to strange to use Honda's terminology "surrendered" with all its implications. In surrender I really have put myself (my car anyway) at Honda's mercy. Granted, Honda is providing another car, but I'm definitely feeling the surrender these days.

Concerning the Ford Focus, which I still unfortunately have, I've been looking that the back wiper wondering how to operate it for the past 10 days. When I got in the car most recently and backed up, the back wiper swooped across the window. How'd that happen I asked my wife and she told me she discovered switch for the wiper, but not how to turn it off. This is very emblematic of this car: it's got controls for everything that probably work if one could just figure them out (or sit down with the encyclopedic owner's manual, or YouTube). I tried to pair my phone with the Sync system a week ago, and thought I miserably failed until I made a call from the car yesterday and the call was taken over by Sync. There's a line in Harry Potter where somebody says "Never trust anything if you can't see where it keeps its brain." This is how I feel about the Focus, and lately, Sync in particular.

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