Newfoundland 5 - 6162 is not our lucky number.
NL 5 – 6162 is not our lucky number.
About that number 6162 … 6,162
miles from home … about halfway to the little church in Lewisporte, the Coyote started
bucking and jumping. Warning lights on the dash flashed, bells and whistles started
clamoring and the vehicle shifted itself down to first gear and would not budge
past that. We limped into the parking lot of the church and Dan fussed with it and
couldn’t find anything obvious.
So … what to do? Go to Mass! At
Holy Family, a little mission of a larger parish down the road, we shared the celebration
with 20 other Catholics and a priest from Ghana. (Yes, the Ghana in Africa ... go
figure). When we got out of Mass … our dear little Coyote was cured! No lights,
bells or problems. We headed out on our way to St. John’s and got 20 miles when
the histrionics resumed. So we limped into Gander … on a Sunday! Everything is closed.
So, a little campground, laundry, a hot shower, dinner and some reading and writing.
It isn’t over … this is the day
for things to go awry. That Sunday evening at the campground, we smelled propane
gas … turned it off and just went to bed promising our little Coyote that we would
carry out all the repairs tomorrow. We appeared
next morning at the Chevy Dealer in Gander and they ran an ODB meter into it and
found four errors with speed monitor and communication with control module. They
said they could get to it around two that afternoon.
Meanwhile, we hunted down Colin
of Competitive Edge, who was awesome. He stopped what he was doing and got to checking
out our propane leak … found it and fixed it … he also does mobile RV repair, among
other things.
Hickman Chevrolet fixed our Coyote
by replacing the speed sensor. It took two hours while I wrote and Dan read in a
nice customer waiting room. Despite scary imaginings of costly repairs we ended
up spending only a total for both repairs $198 American Dollars.
Stayed two nights in a private
campground … did no sightseeing. Did do a lot of reading and writing and laundry
and hot showers and relaxing.
Nothing to see here … this blog
deserves no pictures! So tomorrow morning … on to St. John’s, Newfoundland.
What We Discovered
201 Airport Blvd. Gander NL A1V
1W5 CA
Competitive Edge, 14 Magee Rd.
Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador
Although a machine shop COLIN does RV repair also.
