{"id":1214,"date":"2008-09-24T13:18:40","date_gmt":"2008-09-24T13:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/?p=1214"},"modified":"2008-09-24T13:18:40","modified_gmt":"2008-09-24T13:18:40","slug":"yet_another_loaner_car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/?p=1214","title":{"rendered":"Yet another loaner car"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"photo\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.hamzy.info\/blog-photo-IPHONE_0451.jpg\" alt=\"BMW X-5\"><\/img>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nHere is yet another loaner car.  Which I have had my fill of recently.  What with the two separate replace the header gasket incidents recently.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis time I am driving a BMW X-5.  When I bought the car, part of the deal was replacing the car&#8217;s chip with a performance upgrade.  Apparently, they couldn&#8217;t just install it before I bought it.  I had to first buy the car, then drive it off the lot, and then come back in to have it upgraded.  Whatever.  Bureaucracy or State Laws at their finest, I guess.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nLast Thursday, I drop the car off and here I am with the car.  Almost a week later.  Not the speediest upgrade.  But, I can&#8217;t complain with a free rental.  However, when I get the bill, I notice that part of the bill is $130 in freight!  That is crazy!  Like almost plane travel transportation crazy.  That part of the bill I can complain about&#8230;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBack to the car, or SUV.  Sesh, it is a pig.  Big, heavy, extremely slow.  I don&#8217;t know why people would buy cars like these.  Sure, its roomy.  But it is underpowered and a gas guzzler.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is yet another loaner car. Which I have had my fill of recently. What with the two separate replace the header gasket incidents recently. This time I am driving a BMW X-5. When I bought the car, part of the deal was replacing the car&#8217;s chip with a performance upgrade. Apparently, they couldn&#8217;t just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}