{"id":476,"date":"2007-05-03T21:31:21","date_gmt":"2007-05-04T04:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/05\/03\/finding_the_one_that_fits.html"},"modified":"2007-05-03T21:31:21","modified_gmt":"2007-05-04T04:31:21","slug":"finding_the_one_that_fits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/05\/03\/finding_the_one_that_fits.html","title":{"rendered":"Finding the one that fits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I picked up Aimee&#8217;s car from the local VW specialist this morning, after a raft of repairs we had done over the past two days.  After her car&#8217;s dashboard readout shouted &#8220;ALTERNATOR WORKSHOP!&#8221; at her last week, I found the shop on <a title=\"Car Talk: Mechanics Files\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cartalk.com\/content\/mechx\/\">Car Talk<\/A>, and it&#8217;s  just a few miles from our house.  For some previous work last month, we had used another VW place in Burbank, but it was just too far away.  Nice guy, but a little too low-key for my taste: no credit cards, erratic hours, etc.  Just like when we moved here and I needed a haircut, it took a little bit to find the right place.  I first went to a woman a colleague recommended, down on 3rd.  She was nice and friendly, but just too far away.  I&#8217;m not overjoyed at going to SuperCuts, but sadly, it makes a difference how long it takes me to get there, and I can get it done during lunch.  As for the VW place, I can ride or run there in a matter of minutes to pick up the car, which is nice.  The only thing I have against them is that they took off the nice <a title=\"Craig Autometrics\" href=\"http:\/\/www.craigautometrics.com\/\">Craig Autometrics<\/A> license plate frame and replaced it with their own, as though they were tagging our car.  The last vestiges of our time in Rochester, slowly fading away&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I picked up Aimee&#8217;s car from the local VW specialist this morning, after a raft of repairs we had done over the past two days. After her car&#8217;s dashboard readout shouted &#8220;ALTERNATOR WORKSHOP!&#8221; at her last week, I found the shop on Car Talk, and it&#8217;s just a few miles from our house. For some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-los_angeles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}