Stephen Farrell's Journal

Last March the engine started spewing oil back through the side vent breather totally blowing off the little chrome filter clamped on top. My $6000 paint job was flaking and cracking already. I had her towed back to the body shop and he speculated that there was a flaw in the prep work. Perhaps the soda residue was not cleaned off with vinegar or some such theory. They took it back to bits again and sanded it to metal. This last week it has paint on it again. Only 9 months so far, it was 18 months the first go round. They were wet sanding and preparing to buff it last week. So far it looks amazing but it looked good before till it started cracking again. I still need to address the engine issue when it comes back. I don't want to miss another driving season although it's pretty much year round if you pick your days. This summer was incredibly wet and now it's very dry!
On another note the 2013 Honda Accord EXL V6 has been replaced with a 2017 Honda Ridgeline with AWD, white diamond pearl color., we have put a little over 4000 miles on it. Very happy with ride, handling and gas mileage., It consistently gets over 20 mpg in town and would get at least 25 highway. The GTI gets around 28-30 in town when I feed it 93 octane. It would easily get 34-35 highway if I don't drive like a hooligan.