We jump started the car last night and drove around for a very short while.
This morning it was out of juice, again.
So we decided it was time to visit the Toyota dealership and determine whether we just did not charge the battery long enough, or if it is time for a new battery. The car is at about 90,000 miles, so maybe it is due.
They are busy (surprised?) and did not have an appointment available for us today, but we decided to chance a squeeze in and went today.
At the worst they will have it tomorrow and look at it on Monday morning. But I wouldn’t want to drive it around and chance not being able to start it up again, so it might as well be with them.
The jump starting was more routine since we did not put the car down at the bottom of the driveway. But we did need to borrow our neighbor’s driveway to get close enough for 1 set of cables to reach. And speaking of cables, trying to get contact in the fuse box requires a small pincher end. The Mazda cables are too big. The Prius cables are in the back end lower storage, and the back end will not open. I did manage to open it from the inside, and get to the cables. It was not as tight a fit as I thought is was going to be in the end. But still, if you were out on the road with a loaded car it would be a trick.
We took this opportunity to get a walk in, from the car dealer. About 5 miles, maybe more. I last did this walk on July 27, 2009. It was over 100 degrees that day. Today was more like 50 and raining. Still, a good walk. We treated ourselves to Starbucks on the way.
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