Wednesday, October 11, 2006

What’s That Funky Smell, Indeed

Walked out to the Jetta this morning, started it up, turned on the defroster, heater and just for kicks, the driver’s side seat warmer and dumped my bag and Ellis’ lunch in the front seat. Went back into the house to get Ellis (and Jonah so I could take him to school and E. to day care).

Came back out and my car was on fire.

Well, OK, technically, it wasn’t on fire so much as the drivers seat was smoking and the whole machine smelled quite bad.

And now there is a hole in my drivers’ seat where the seat warmer went ka-blooey.

I’m pretty sure that if I had dawdled in the house for a few more minutes I’d have come out to a 2003 Jetta 1.8T, fully engulfed in flames.

The irony of this is that I don’t really like the seat warmer things. And how glad am I that I wasn’t *in* the seat while it began to smolder? Because everyone knows that the stench of burning “Jon” is *much* worse than burning upholstery.

*UPDATE*
Here’s a photo of the damage:

1. Talk about getting put on the hot seat!

   Please tell me there’s a warrantee that covers your little mishap.

   Posted by michael  on  10/11/06  at  04:48 PM

2. We’ll see. Technically, the thing has 52K miles on it and the warrantee expires at 50K, but I’m thinking they should make an exception for things that burn.

   It’s going to the car doc next week.

   Posted by jon  on  10/11/06  at  04:51 PM

3. You could have titled this entry, “It’s good to be married to a lawyer when...”

   Posted by michael  on  10/12/06  at  05:01 PM

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