Mark your calendars, ladies and gentlemen! On February 10th, 2010, I officially participated in my first-ever winter sports outing. Normally if I'm caught outside in frigid temperatures for as long as I was yesterday, I'm watching my beloved Cleveland Browns get stomped by some other equally awful team, however something in the cosmos must have aligned because I was actually interested in heading to our little local version of Teluride....well, not quite so much...maybe Aspen, that town has been 'trashified' enough to compete with the likes of Lawrenceburg, Indiana. Anyhow, my point in writing all of this is that I finally got to re-live that 1980s yuppie feeling as we slinked into the resort in the Jaguar among hoards of BMW X5s, Tahoes and of course the occasional SAAB here and there.
The only other news is that the kitty got a new alternator today to rectify that intermittent overcharge problem I'd been experiencing. I had three options for alternators, all Bosch rebuilds- two of which were Bosch rebuilt Lucas units and the third option being an actual Bosch-designed Lucas replacement, which, although being the most expensive, was the one I opted for at a whopping $158.00. Now, changing the alternator on an XJ6 is a mutherfucker of a job, and not wanting to have to do it again, I figured the German version of the part was the smartest option. Of course, being that I'm sticking on my tight budget, I didn't opt to change the belt, so we'll see how long that carries on for. In any case, end result of three hours of swearing is a perfect 13.5-14V charge with no hints at going into electrical fire mode anytime soon. Whew!
