Morning all, 47 going to 62 and sunny dry.
So wife went shopping during lunch, as soon as she got on route 1 (main thoroughfare) the car went into neutral and would not drive, while she was in lane, she was able to pull into merge lane before car stopped and went into park.
Police came out to block the lane, really great PO.
Took about an hour for tow to show up, now at local garage after $100 for tow after AAA 3 mile buffer/hookup coverage.
I rode back with car and tow truck. Wife took my truck with son to get the shopping home.
On way back a dump truck had tilted onto it's side on main road up. They got home ok, Truck took quite a few hours to clean up the asphalt spill. Not sure how truck could've tipped like that.
Looks like car battery dead and weird neutral while driving maybe power dist unit, damn BMW crap. Cheapish part, but when it starts to go, so does engine management, says ignition fault, no start and dies while driving, she was up to 50 when it happened, we read about others on highways were it did this. Should be a recall....
Then I cooked 40 sliders for son's halloween party at his friends house. All while trying to catch up on day job.
To finish the evening on a better note, went the next town over to where my wife grew up.
They had pumpkins on the canal, hundreds of jack o lanterns from all over town. Along the now very dry Canal. Lots of people strolling, beautiful night for it.
Now of course my truck is acting up, looks like thermostat is opening at 240 instead of 190 degrees. Hopefully that's all that's wrong with it.
Be well,
To the left of the pumpkin line is usually 5-6' of water
Lots of people decorated their houses along the canal. Some had set up bars and places to get hot cider.