learning is good, right?

Driving to work today: horrible scraping noise. First thought was, naturally, ‘don’t panic, don’t panic, don’t panic.’ First action was, naturally, panicking.

Still, I managed to get off to the side of the road and observe that yes, something had fallen off my car. I examined it — it didn’t look *too* important (no wires, no circuitry). The muffler appeared firmly attached, which is the only thing I’ve previously had experience with falling off my car (different car).

So I tossed the fallen-off bit in the back seat and drove to work, where I called the car spa.

Me: “Hey, so a piece fell off my car on the way to work.”
Car Spa: “Huh. What does it look like?”

Consensus seemed to be that this was a heat shield (confirmed after work, when I took the fallen-off bit to the car spa for them to look at). Apparently, heat shields are like the appendix of a car. If they’re hanging on there doing their thing, that’s cool, you should leave them alone. But if it falls off, no big deal. WHO KNEW? (Everyone except me, it turns out.)

Mirrored from The Marci Rating System.