Crossed Wires

I've had the RV in the shop for quite a while now because it needs a catalytic converter to replace the one that someone stole from us (probably while we were on the Worldcon trip last December). I knew that they had moved the RV from their Sparks shop to their Reno shop because the latter was the only one with a high enough lift and ceiling to get the Rolling Stone up to where they could work on it. What I didn't know until this morning was that they had my phone number wrong, so every time they've tried to contact me, they've been going to someone else's voicemail. Anyway, I straightened that out. There's also a different issue on which they are working, having to do with the sticky ignition key. If the tilt-wheel is in just the wrong position, the key will get stuck and you won't be able to turn it to LOCK to get the key out. The first time it happened I panicked, but it turns out that if you move the tilt-wheel, it frees up. In addition, the spring on the ignition is weak, so under some circumstances, it can get stuck in the START position (which is very bad for the starter motor), and you have to manually move the key back to ON. Lisa's fix for that was to install a manual start button under the dash: turn the key to ON and press the START button, and there you go. I told the person at the shop about this when I checked it in, but that information apparently did not make it to the people at the other location when they moved it.

I would like to get the RV back so that we have a vehicle with air conditioning (albeit that it only gets 9 miles/gallon) again. If we get it back, we'll drive in and retrieve it and then leave the minivan with the air conditioning shop to see if they can figure out what went wrong this time.