Cars have souls!

               

Cars have souls of their own. Yes. When you ignore them or are just not inclined to show any care towards them, they show an abundance of displeasure, by malfunctioning and exhibiting, one by one, their faulty parts!  They break down, suddenly! At some strange places at that! At traffic signal of an extremely busy road, or at a popular and busy shopping mall or even at a narrow one-way street!  It is, as though, they are, purposely, reminding you to pay some heed to their conditions, especially, the outer ones.

All their parts seem to have some sort of understanding among each other! Then, why, after I had changed the starter but paid little attention to the cleanliness of the car,  the car’s radiator, immediately, began  giving problems by overheating the engine? After all, I had fully checked the cooling system, just one month earlier!

I drive a Malaysian assembled Hyundai Atos car; a sixteen years old one. You may argue that it is an old car and, naturally, the parts will have to be changed one by one. Fair enough. But why must it stop at a busy signal light and let passersby look at me; some pitifully, some worriedly and some with struggles of joy on their faces? The last rejoicing group, definitely, could have gone through some similar situation! 

The reason for the breakdown, that day - no oil in the gear box. But I had filled that up two days ago! I, actually, now know the suspected reason; I did not clean up the car for several weeks, then! A tow-car towed my car to the foreman and he repaired a surprising leak, and filled up the gear box with the relevant oil.

You may have your doubts, of course, and say cleanliness is not the cause of engine failures. Then why must my car fail to start at a petrol station? The pump attendants helped me push my unclean car out of the petrol station. And after some sweating and gasping for breath, I had to phone a battery shop for help. Luckily, it was open on that Sunday and the battery got changed and the car was started. The first thing I did was to, immediately, drive the car to an auto car-wash center, nearby, to have it cleaned! 

Just to inform you, due to my ignorance and, perhaps, some laziness in not sending the car to a wash center, regularly, to have it cleaned and groomed up, and make it smug and happy, l had lost quite a fortune. So far, I had been forced to change the car engine water pump, radiator, fuel tank meter, car rims, fog lamps, air-conditioning fan, lower control arm (left side) and even the steering wheel! More parts to follow? No way! I am keeping the car clean, nowadays!

My, cars do have souls! A new car don’t give problems because we will wipe-clean the whole car if we detect even a small speck of dirt on it! Furthermore, we admire and kiss the new car before we go to bed! The car, of course, will be conceited and pleased! Get it? Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!