Yes, it's Rudy's birthday - a special day for those of us who drive diesels because we like to be able to use vegetable-oil-based fuels. Rudolph Diesel experimented with powering his engines with peanut oil (and I even kind of understand why this works - ask me if you'd like to know!). In honor of this special day, my diesel Jetta actually passed her inspection - yay! I had a little talk with the gremlin that I suspected was living somewhere in the exhaust/turbo system, and explained to it that if the car wouldn't pass inspection because the darned "Check Engine" light wouldn't go out, then the gremlin would have nowhere to live and we would all be pissed off. I think it must have listened to me and gone to find another host vehicle, because after years of trying to figure out what the problem is, it finally got solved today and we now have a new inspection sticker. (It could also be that our mechanic friend Darryl is a genius, which certainly doesn't hurt.) So Gretta is legal for at least another year, and I can calm down from my state of chronic rage about the state inspection system refusing to issue stickers while the "Check Engine" light is on!
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