Dear students,
Please consider taking advantage of free vehicle check-outs this Friday afternoon November 15th, 12.30 – 4pm, at the Unity House garage/workshop.
Baby, it’s cold outside! And a little slippery!
Is your vehicle a little ungraceful on ice, not quite the figure skater of your dreams? Does it not quite qualify for the winter Olympics? Does it need a good trainer, if not a good mechanic? Does it execute unplanned pirouettes at inopportune moments, or not quite exit the driveway, even when asked nicely?
Is your vehicle a little ungraceful on ice, not quite the figure skater of your dreams? Does it not quite qualify for the winter Olympics? Does it need a good trainer, if not a good mechanic? Does it execute unplanned pirouettes at inopportune moments, or not quite exit the driveway, even when asked nicely?
Unlike figure skating, planned or unplanned, you can’t spin engineering. It either works or it does not. All the trainers and TV cameramen and ice-dance judges in all the world won’t turn your wheels for you if they don’t want to turn.
What you really need is better, more practical, less fashionable help than you’ve been getting. You need a good old-fashioned grumpy mechanic. So don’t miss the opportunity Monday to have the old junker checked out thoroughly. In particular, don’t risk being stranded someplace remote, dangerous, or worst of all, without cell phone service! We want you back safely at good old Unity College in the fall.
So before you get in your winter wagon and drive off into the slippery highway lanes for a fine family Thanksgiving, let the experienced mechanics and other techy-geeky students of this semester’s team of volunteers check the poor neglected thing out.
We will check your tire pressures and pump them up if necessary, check and top off the oil and other fluids, and finally and perhaps most usefully, if your CHECK ENGINE light is on, we will use our computer reader to “pull” your trouble codes so you can finally know just what it is that your poor neglected automobile has been trying to tell you all these months.
(Did you know you can save lots of gas by keeping your car’s tires at the proper pressures? That tire pressure changes as the weather warms and cools with the seasons, so you have to check them regularly! That slightly low tire pressures improve traction, while over-inflation reduces traction, perhaps to the point of danger. Did you know that a blown oxygen sensor is easy to fix and can save on gas too? Did you know that low oil level can kill your car’s engine? Or high! Well, now you know.)
Each participant will receive a written report on the serviceability of their vehicle, with details of any trouble codes and what they mean.
The college accepts no responsibility for the use or misuse of any of the information we give you about your vehicle, or for your car’s safety after you leave the campus, but we do suggest that it’s always better to know than not to know. In most cases.
(Employees are welcome too. Thanks to the Student Affairs Department for aid in providing this service.)
Be safe, drive safe.
Mick Womersley
Professor and Head Grease Monkey
What you really need is better, more practical, less fashionable help than you’ve been getting. You need a good old-fashioned grumpy mechanic. So don’t miss the opportunity Monday to have the old junker checked out thoroughly. In particular, don’t risk being stranded someplace remote, dangerous, or worst of all, without cell phone service! We want you back safely at good old Unity College in the fall.
So before you get in your winter wagon and drive off into the slippery highway lanes for a fine family Thanksgiving, let the experienced mechanics and other techy-geeky students of this semester’s team of volunteers check the poor neglected thing out.
We will check your tire pressures and pump them up if necessary, check and top off the oil and other fluids, and finally and perhaps most usefully, if your CHECK ENGINE light is on, we will use our computer reader to “pull” your trouble codes so you can finally know just what it is that your poor neglected automobile has been trying to tell you all these months.
(Did you know you can save lots of gas by keeping your car’s tires at the proper pressures? That tire pressure changes as the weather warms and cools with the seasons, so you have to check them regularly! That slightly low tire pressures improve traction, while over-inflation reduces traction, perhaps to the point of danger. Did you know that a blown oxygen sensor is easy to fix and can save on gas too? Did you know that low oil level can kill your car’s engine? Or high! Well, now you know.)
Each participant will receive a written report on the serviceability of their vehicle, with details of any trouble codes and what they mean.
The college accepts no responsibility for the use or misuse of any of the information we give you about your vehicle, or for your car’s safety after you leave the campus, but we do suggest that it’s always better to know than not to know. In most cases.
(Employees are welcome too. Thanks to the Student Affairs Department for aid in providing this service.)
Be safe, drive safe.
Mick Womersley
Professor and Head Grease Monkey
(not necessarily in that order)
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