When you’re driving down the road and hear a couple pops and subsequent rattle coming from under the hood it’s easy and tempting to get wound up and go down the metaphorical road of ‘maybe it’s time to get a new car’.
You get home, open the hood. You take a look as though you know something about cars. It all looks fine. Drive it again, same thing. This happens a few more times with the rattle getting a little worse each time. At this point you’re scouring CarMax and Craigslist. You’ve got a full page of car buying apps on your phone. Even the weird Carvana vending machine is starting to look like a solid option.
But in a last ditch effort, beaten and bruised, you take your car to the mechanic to see if there is anything that can save this horrible wretch of a vehicle.
Upon fifteen seconds of inspection it’s discovered that the lid of the air filter wasn’t put back on properly and simply needs to be snapped back into place, correctly.
You didn’t have a horrible car. You didn’t need a new car. You just needed clarity about what the problem was. Making the solution simple.
