Beating the system
08/15/2006 11:24 PM
At this risk of becoming, oh, I don't know,
pedestrian?, I'll tell you that Alex and I fixed the
tailgate latch on our Subaru today. This after the
guy at Chip's Service Center charged us $20 to tell
us that he couldn't fix it, and that a new latch
would cost $180 + labor. You see the latch wasn't
latching, which kinda defeated the purpose of having
a wagon. So we bought a used latch from Lake Region
Imports ($52), and after forcibly removing our
supposedly broken latch, and putting in their
supposedly superior latch, I saw at once what the
difference between the two mechanisms was. It was all
so crystal clear. So I fixed our latch by bending a
little piece of metal, took out the new used latch,
put our fixed one back in (this part w/ copious help
from AJ Sax), and then to celebrate the outstanding
success went upstairs and made burnt caramel ice
cream. That probably would have made a better
picture, but you get, instead, the tailgate, in its
naked glory.
