After driving around looking at houses yesterday, we stopped at an Unos restaurant to get something to eat. When we got back in the truck afterward, Andy realized that it was making a strange whiny sound. The sound ended up being from the fuel pump which is part of a complete unit that all has to be changed at once. We had the thing changed out this morning and paid almost $1000 for it. The part alone was nearly $600.

So were we unlucky that this happened to us? Perhaps. But look at it this way: Andy had another problem with the unit that was changed, and had had this problem for a while. The sensing unit that would send information to the gas gage was intermittent, so he had to use his odometer reading to know when to fill up the gas tank. Everything else worked fine, so he couldn't see changing out the super expensive all-in-one unit for just that. But when the fuel pump started to make that whining noise, we knew that we had to do something.

Here is the maybe a little bit lucky part: the restaurant we were eating at was next door to the place where we have all of the work on our cars done. So we just rode one parking lot over and one of the mechanics came out to listen to the noise and told us what it was. What are the chances of that happening? Normally something like that would find us stranded somewhere when we had to get somewhere else, but this happened on a Saturday afternoon and we were able to get the whole thing fixed this morning. Yes, the damn thing was expensive, but at least having it changed out fixed the other problem that Andy had been just living with.

So, what do you think? Were we unlucky or lucky?