Last Saturday I decided I was going to ride my bike, so my car sat all day. It started raining, so it turned out to be a crappy day to ride my bike (I know! Rain in late December!). Later that night I decided to go use my Target gift card and get a few rugs for my condo. When I got to the car door I noticed wires where my stereo used to be. I looked past the hole and saw rain soaking the passenger seat.
So I wrapped up the window with a bunch of plactic to keep out the rain and went and got rugs. Yes, I thought, this sucks. But why dwell on it? That’s price I pay for having a car and living in the city with a nicer stereo that I thought was old enough that nobody would steal it, so I left the face plate on. Merry Christmas! I tried not to think about how much it was going to cost to get the wondow fixed.
When I got home I checked the Net to see how much it would cost, but none of the sites said anything about passenger windows and no prices were listed. So I went to bed, but right before I turned out the lights I remembered U-PULL-R-PARTS.com. I had gone there a few other times, but never found what I needed, but if I did it would be pretty cheap. I looked up my make and model (’96 Volkwagon Jetta) and they had got one in a month ago. I didn’t think it was likely that it would have anything left on it, but I went anyway.
It turned out they had just gotten a ’95 Jetta in the day before! What’s more is that BOTH cars had the window I needed, plus a tire and a couple other doo-dads I needed! I rolled my wheelbarrow to the register and my total came to $34 dollars!!!
I had the window replaced just over 12 hours after I found it smashed. I can operate my car without a stereo, but a window on a rainy December day is harder to ignore. Finding what I needed, more than what I needed, and so soon at a yard that is usually so picked over you’d be lucky to find a dip stick blew my mind! It is God’s hand! And now I have a queit car to pray in.