Biting the Bullet on the Astro

Besides my needing to catch up on the lost sleep from SMOFCon, I also had neglected to restart the fireplace when I got home, so I stayed in bed where it was warm and did not get up yesterday until after 11 AM. I could not stay in bed all day, as much as I wanted to do so, because I had an appointment with the GM dealership in Yerrington to take in the Astro and try and fix the several different issues, starting with the computer reporting an EGR failure even after we replaced it. Also needed is a new muffler and a look at the air conditioner, possibly including re-connecting the rear lines to the front. There's also the rattle that we think is due to those disconnected lines.

Anyway, later in the afternoon after I pulled myself together, Lisa and I convoyed to Yerrington (about 50 miles each way, with me driving the Rolling Stone and Lisa driving the Astro) and delivered the minivan to the dealership. We explained all of the issues we want them to investigate. I signed a disclaimer acknowledging the issues involved with working on older vehicles and that it could take them a while to diagnose everything. That's why we had waited so long before putting it into the shop; our travels are done for a while, so we can give them plenty of time to work on it.

We then drove home to Fernley in the RV, which will need to be our van-about-town until we get the Astro back. It's not ideal, but it will work.