The continuing Cellar Car saga

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I feel like I have a responsibility to mention when the Cellar Car goes through anything at all. This'll be a thread for it.

Today the update is that J's son and his friend fixed the rear window.

The car was delivered with this issue, where one rear window was faulty and would not go up or down, and would not even close the whole way. There was always an inch of air where the window stopped, and the gap was closed with duct tape. Over the years I had learned to use Scotch's 200 degrees F heat resistant duct tape so that it would last through summer heat without melting.

Well J's lad had nothing to do on Sunday, so I said I would give him a few bucks if he would tear the rear door down and figure out how to push the window up permanently. He's a car guy, so he dug into this task whole-heartedly. And when his buddy came over, they both got into it. Pretty soon they isolated the bad regulator, and proudly ran to the junkyard to find a replacement. An hour and $30 later the whole thing is fixed.

Well that's great! But they ran the battery down whilst doing all this; and in jumping the car to start it, they must have blown the fuse to the stereo, because it's completely dead now. And that's how it inevitably works, you know; I just wanted the lad to put a 2x4 in there and push the window permanently closed, but he wanted to do a more complete job and as a result may have fried the $99 stereo along the way.

But what're ya gawna do? The kid was idle on a Sunday afternoon.