Our $500 Bunny

After our car had sat idle in our driveway for several days, we decided to do some shopping in Temecula and get gas. So off we go and only a mile from home we noticed a new, different colored cluster of service warnings. We decided this must be an automatic warning, based on mileage. But just to make sure, we called the dealer – who said we needed to come in.

The car was taken to the service bay at about 11:15 a.m. The first word back from the shop was “you gotta see this.” So Claudia follows the mechanics back to the car, where she was told to look under the hood, forward of the engine and at...