So my weekend started off to a trip to Denver to visit my sister, she hasn’t met my 6 month old yet and if anything Colorado is safer than Oklahoma right now with their new cases lower than ours. We made sure to wear our masks everywhere we went in public unless we weren’t around people, and social distanced.
We get to Denver early in the morning Sunday after driving straight through, woke up and did some sight seeing, had a good day. Drove my Land Cruiser and decided to go up into the mountains and up to Grand Lake since my significant other wanted to see more of the mountains and lakes, she loves scenery and photography.
Drove back into Denver for the night and got some rest. The next morning we stopped by the store so I could get a new shirt for myself and a harness for our dog because we left hers at home. Once we are out of the store and in the Land Cruiser it dies about 2 minutes after starting it. Had my insurance send out someone to jump it, dies again right after he leaves and right before we pull out of the parking spot. My sister comes to jump me and follow me to an Advance Auto Parts right around the corner, diagnosis was a bad battery. Get the replacement installed and the alternator tested. Alternator read a little low, but figured it would be ok, lol.
We proceed to head up to the Red Rocks Amphitheater, which was awesome. Right as we get to the lower parking lot by the gift shop, engine starts to die, pulled into the closest open parking spot and it died. Dang it.
We decided to wait and call a tow truck until after we did the site seeing we wanted to do. Finally got a tow a little after 8 after waiting 2 hours for the tow truck, got towed to another Advance Auto Parts because they had an alternator in stock. Ended up replacing it there in the parking lot the next morning as they had closed the night before after I realized I didn’t have my deep socket set with me, and needed one so I went back to the hotel where my s/o and kids were. The next morning it took about 2 hours and the new alternator was in and I was back on the road. Made for an entertaining way to end the trip, also for a vehicle with 291k miles on it, it did just fine.
Also, none of us had ever been to an IKEA before, so we stopped by one after I got the alternator replaced, cool place, I will have to go to the one in Dallas sometime soon.
Now I’m looking at purchasing something possibly silly and supercharging it, what does Oppo think, it’s a 2007 Cadillac Escalade ESV with the 6.2L and AWD (loooongboi) with around 390k miles. New trans and flywheel 30k miles ago, new battery sway bar bushings, transfer chain and tires this year. Trying to get it for cheap, around $4k. If I got this, I would be paying cash and would be keeping my Land Cruiser.