Tag: KIA Sorento

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Round Two

It finally came!

After searching and searching I finally went with the actual Kia part, instead of the ‘Kia Like’ parts I found on Ebay and Amazon. They were cheaper but this is not the time or place to go cheap. I did go cheap on the shipping, the part was about $178 and the shipping…..over night would have been $300! Or….wait a week and only pay $18, yeah I did not need the part that badly! So a week it was to be….

I get the notice from USPS that I had to go to the post office because ‘There was not a safe place to deliver’, I cannot remember the last time I was at the post office! There I was at 0900 hrs, first in line getting my package and the lady comes from the back with this BOX….and all I kept thinking was ‘Did I order the right part?!?!’ The part is literally about the size of a soft ball and here is this box that could probably fit about 20 of them!

To my surprise I had actually order the correct thing!

Replacing it was super simple; took off the panel cover, removed the two nuts, wiggled the two claps out of their sockets, unplugged the burnt out unit, plug in the new one and then just put it back in place. (Thank you YouTube for showing me how to do this!)

Light was in and it tested out perfectly. I would like to thank KIA Parts for making this super simple and easy. I am curious how much I would have had to pay in labor for this if I had taken it to KIA? From a quick Google search I learned that the average labor cost from a dealer is $80-$125 an hour! In the end all I paid was $195 plus my time, god only know how much they would have charged for the part and the labor would have been listed as an hour. I will call this a Dad Victory, I do not want call the thunder of the Dad Gods so I will sacrifice a beer on the Man Altar this weekend.

This week has started off in the right direction, the weekend is almost here. Not sure what we are doing but I do want to get outside, the weather is getting better and the wife has been talking about hiking…..so lets see what happens!

Till next post; journal often, journal more and take pictures of everything. 

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Just another day…..

Soooooo about a week ago or so, someone pointed out that my back tail light was out and like any man I put it off until the following weekend. Then I put it off till the following weekend after that and this weekend I finally went and got me a set of bulbs. Just a little man note here: If you replace one bulb go ahead and replace the other one; A) Buying two bulbs is cheaper than buying one at a time and B) The other one is most likely about to go out…..trust me it has happened.

I broke out the handy dandy tool bag and went to work, replacing bulbs on KIA’s really is not that hard but it is a pain in the ass. The front headlight do require small nibble fingers, much like that of a child or a small women, you know like the people who probably built these! Ha, I joke my car was built in Georgia!

I pop off the tail light with bulb in hand and right away I see something wrong……..

Can you guess which bulb is the new one? I have replaced many bulbs in numerous types of cars and I have never seen a bulb turn black! So now my WTF hat is on, I replace the bulb and test it…..nothing. I take off the housing again but this time look closer, and see that the actual bulb housing is also burnt!

After some Google searching I find that I am going to have to replace the whole thing….great! But luckily there are all kinds of places to get KIA parts, or what they are calling KIA ‘LIKE’ parts. I am one to go cheap on my bread, no named peanut butter and even get the Kirkland brand from Costco. Which by the way is damn good but here is not the place to go cheap. So, off to the actual KIA web site I went and bought my part. The only real down side to this was if I wanted the part NOW I was going to have to pay! Pay like $300 extra for speedy delivery, or I could pay $17 and wait a week…..well I have made it this far without the damn thing I guess I could save some cash and just wait.

Take the good with the bad I guess; the part is on order, I am not going to have to pay the dealership their marked up part plus labor, I bought two bulbs that I did not need but I now have two bulbs for future use.

After everything was said and down I did celebrate with some Guinness, I have wanted one since St. Patty’s day! I went to three/four stores on Saint Patrick’s day and they were sold out of Guinness! I must say as I have gotten older this has slowly become one of my favorite beers, I swear my genes are slowly dictating my drink of choice….I was a Johnny Walker man but now I am slowly singing the love of Jameson. Ha!

I have found myself pondering what I want out of this site and for the time all I want is a place to blog and bitch. I keep seeing different post on how to boost your web page traffic and how to make money with your page, and for the time I am not really all that concerned with that. Maybe after I have been doing this for about a year or so and I have some real content I will look to taking this to the next level. I am here to just have fun and finally have my own internet page.

I love the fact I actually have a place to call my own and can come in and infect anyone that happens to come across my page. That idea tickles me pink, and maybe someday it will become more than the pathetic ramblings of another want to be writer. But till then: Journal often, journal more and take pictures of everything. 

PS…..my wife pointed out that my ending line is redundant and I am fine with that, it is supposed to be. I want to reinforce the idea we all need to journal more, it helps on so many levels. Just getting our thoughts out of our heads has wondrous therapeutic properties!