It Never Hurts to Try

For the past nine years, I've been a Saturn owner and couldn't brag about them enough. In high school I had a little four-door purple Sedan (and some of you really think I'm ever going to convert to being a Husker?), and about three years ago, I bought a brand new silver Saturn Vue.

I think the Saturns are great quality cars - so I'm devastated that they're now out of business and I'll never get to buy one again. Weird, I know, I just have really loved my cars! They are (usually) always reliable and I've never had major problems with them.....

.....at least not many. My purple guy (who I called Willie) never had major repairs, but my new one seems to have the weirdest problems. There is of course the infamous windshield bash, when a lovely fake St. Patty's day fan thought it would be a great idea to throw a barrel trash can at my windshield. That was a great gift.

More recently, I dealt with a broken heater core. On a drive to Manhattan recently, my car stopped defrosting, which causes issues when it's late at night, driving across the state. When I got back to Castle Rock, I took my car in for repairs and found out it was going to cost me $1,400. Awesome. Not that I didn't have the money for it, I just don't like paying for anything. What do you expect - it's the financial planner in me.

Randomly driving along the road one day, I remembered that back in February I had to take my car in for a recall to prevent the heater core from breaking. Funny, that I get that fixed and six months later, the darn thing breaks anyway. 

After many hours on the phone, I was able to get a hold of the right people and lucky me - I'm getting half of the repairs reimbursed!! I'm not usually one to ask for the money back, but since it cost so much, and probably shouldn't have still broken - I figured it was worth a shot. 

So HUGE thank you to David at McCarthy Chevrolet in Olathe, Jim at General Motors, and Sean at MedVed Chevy in Castle Rock.

It never hurts to ask!!! The worst they can tell you is no - something is better than nothing!