Road Trips

In one of my other posts, I mentioned road trips. It reminded me of this one we took -- and I can't remember if it was when we went to Tucson, or Los Angeles -- but we had no air conditioning in the car. I think it had broken or something just before the trip. Now, I live in a pretty mild part of the country and don't need a home air conditioner -- I just open a window -- but in the car, I have to have a/c, even just tooling around locally. Summer is the worst, but even in Fall a car can heat up pretty badly.

So that road trip was my first and last time to go without cooling in the car. I'll only go through torture like that once! Now I make sure my car's a/c is always working. The kind of car I have now, unfortunately, has a bit of a reputation for a/c problems, so I've bookmarked DiscountACParts.com which -- hello! -- sells discounted auto ac parts, including air conditioning compressors for all kinds of car makes, including the BMW AC compressor. The parts they sell have full warranties, and they offer free shipping, too. How many times have you found a great deal online and then they get you with shipping!? Not here, at least!