11 ford escape1/17/2024 ![]() I had convinced my wife that we could purchase it and share it as a “work” car for the two of us. Soon my parent’s neighbors and I were in talks about the Escape. When I was done, it was probably the cleanest Escape of it’s age on the road. ![]() I spent a lot of time cleaning all the Iowa gravel dust out of this vehicle. I had convinced myself that the depths of the internet had seen this issue and that I could have this car fixed in little time. This convinced me that all those failed mechanic visits were really the results of mechanics who did not really know what they were doing. Coming from a manufacturing background, there is “never one ant,” meaning, if one issue happens, it has bound to be repeated elsewhere. The car was a spare car for them, so it just sat. It developed a problem where within a matter of hours, the battery would go dead after being parked. I asked my dad about the story of the Escape. Since the beginning of Covid, every time I would go to Iowa City to visit my parents, I would see my parent’s neighbor’s 2011 Ford Escape parked alongside their garage, stationary, never showing signs of being driven. My parent’s next-door neighbors are great people who I have known almost my whole life. My parents have lived in the same neighborhood since 1997. However, a trip to my parent’s house one late winter weekend sparked an idea. Unfortunately, this happened to be the worst time to purchase a used car. Soon I found myself scouring the internet for the perfect “cheap work car” for us. My Ranger gets an earth-shattering 14 MPG, and my wife’s CX-5, our “good” car, was soon racking up mileage faster than I would have liked. Within a week of our new commutes, I was beginning to wonder if our car situation needed some addressing for all the additional miles and gas we would be consuming. Now she would be commuting 40 miles round trip every day, and I would be closer to 20 miles. Previously, we both worked within five minutes from home, with my commute being 2.2 miles round trip every day. The change in employment meant that we both would be doing a lot more driving than we used to. We were both nervous about bringing that much change to our household at once, but now almost a year later, the transition was smooth and the right move for both of us. I applied, and to my surprise, I ended up with a new job before she did. ![]() She had been in the process of trying to find a different job, and during her searches, she happened to find the perfect job for me. The biggest change was my wife and I both changed jobs two weeks apart from each other in February. “Never buy a grey car” is what my wise 90-year-old uncle said to me when I told him I purchased a grey Ford Escape, “they are nothing but problems.” Well, I should have listened to his advice.Ģ022 brought many changes for my wife and me. I spent a lot of time not driving this car. ![]()
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