Last night I was helping my father fix a headlight on our Nissan Altima and my view of cars changed a little bit.
My mom asked my dad to fix the headlight around nine at night and it was kind of rushed because she wanted it the next day. It was also extremely cold because we were in our garage so our fingers were rather frozen.
The point is that my dad took apart and had to figure out how to put back together the front of the car to get to the right side headlight. He had to take apart the air vent that leads to the engine and then figure out how to put together the headlight again. To those people who know how to take apart and reassemble cars you think it’s probably really simple but to the others, such as my dad and I, we know it’s difficult if you don’t know what you’re doing.
We stayed out in the cold for about two hours or so and cursed the people who manufactured the car in a way that’d be easier if you just took it in to get it fixed which is part of why I’m even writing this.
We couldn’t find a way to get the actual whole headlight out without taking the whole front of the car off so it made the job a bit more difficult and the little spring that is meant to hold the small light in place fell into a small opening right below the light and luckily I was there to fit my arm down and get it back. All in all the manufacturing seemed to be purposely done to make the buyer go into the show and spend hundreds of dollars on something that would only take you five bucks and about an hour to do.
But also another reason why I am writing this is because the mothers and wives. There are women out there who are car crazy and love to work on cars or even know the hardship that others can put into one but there are also those who don’t know and don’t care as long as it’s done right and on time. A lot of those women don’t even appreciate it.
It takes time and hardship and when a husband or boyfriend fixes your car up do you really pay much attention to it?
The paragraphs above explain the time and work put into fixing cars in a minimum. But women need to understand the world around them and the effort that is put into different things.
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I love that you helped your dad fix the headlight. Something tells me you will never be a helpless woman or an easy victim at the auto-mechanic shop.
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You might try to do a search for changing the headlight on the Nissan Altima.
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