So Saturday Olessia, John, and I went down to Columbus to see my sister’s new house. It was her house warming party and it was a good time. I drove everyone down since Olessia’s Civic was getting worked on on Monday. No problems going down. But coming back, we decided we’d pick up a snack at Friendly’s at 71N and Bagley Road. Traffic light number 1 wasn’t a problem. And the car pulled away fine from traffic light number 2, but after leaving first gear it wouldn’t go into any gear after that. I managed to coast the car into Friendly’s. Olessia and John pushed it into a parking space. Then I called AAA for a tow.

After some troubleshooting with Bob on the phone, we had a hunch to what the problem was. I tried one more time to start the car with it in gear and it fired up fine. I was able to shift fine. So I called off the tow and we went in to eat. We made it home without any problems.

Sunday, it almost seemed fine. Until I returned home and put the car in 2nd gear and parked. I came back and it got stuck in gear again. So a visit to Acura on Monday was in order.

Monday I dropped it off. I was surprised they were willing to get me in. They had problems with it as well. Turns out it needs a new clutch. Ugh. They got the order in before 1pm and the parts showed up this afternoon. The Teg is now being worked on and returned back to a factory clutch (moving from DSP back to GS or STS in autocross terms).

Good news is Olessia’s Civic is back normal. It had its master cylinder replaced. Then she took it in for its e-Check. She told me the car started steaming after the test. She popped the hood and was able to put water in the radiator. She then took it to a local shop and they found the spring on the radiator cap broke. She replaced it and this morning had the water flushed and coolant put back in. Whew!