[Xist]

She mentioned this last week. I found a suggestion of three things to check before taking the car to a mechanic, shared it with her, and when I later asked if she had checked them, she responded "Kind of. I set an appointment with a mechanic."

Just say "No."

I do not think that she mentioned this until Sunday, but there was a puddle under her car on Thursday, a large puddle Friday, and on Saturday she called around, setting an appointment for Monday.

She was pretty frantic so I checked after she dropped off the car. I asked if the mechanic had any guesses and she said "No, they will not know for four hours."

No, they should have had some idea before even looking at the car.

They came back and told her that she was missing a CV boot(!) and the other one was detached, so they convinced her to replace her half-axles, telling her that it was a safety issue. Then her roommate insisted that they took the car across town to the roommate's father's shop, where they eventually told her that they could fix the radiator and replace the half-axles, but that the heater was too expensive.

Does that make sense to anyone? When I ask her questions her answers do not make any sense to me, because she is not a "car person."