So I return, happy as can be when I fire up the engine of a real car instead of that little 206. I'd been having some fun in a "pressurized Mondeo" (pictures later) but I was happy to have 6 cylinders instead of four for a change.
As usual, when I start the car, the alternator light flickers. I always hold my breath when I see that happen but it vanished. I nearly killed myself trying to drive on the left along Fasken Drive in Toronto, but after figuring out where I was I made onto the 400.
Just before Newmarket my tach dies and the ABS light comes on. Great, I'm thinking, there goes one of the VSS's. After a few more kilometers the car suddenly starts to cough and spit, then abruptly dies. I swing across three lanes of traffic and park it on the side.
My luck couldn't be worse as I neither have my mobile phone, nor is it connected anyway because I didn't know how long I'd be away. As fate would have it, no one would stop so after a good bit I look to the right and see a small office hidden behind the trees.
Right! I figure, and hop the fence. Now I can get help! But the office is locked and only through sheer good luck I caught someone leaving the building. While not happy at having to go back into the office, the lady at least let me use her phone.
After an hour wait a tow ruck arrives and drags my poor car up to Douglas Ford. Now my day started by having the Peugeot taken away with a totalled clutch (not me, the previous driver), then I had an 8 hours flight all the way up to Greenland and down to Toronto (I guess AT lost their ETOPS rating...) and now I'm being made to suffer in the heat of a stinky tow truck.
I'm not quite sure if it's my battery or the alternator, but one of the two is most likely toast.
So to make a long story short, does anyone know if they sell dry-cell batteries here? I mean something like the Dyna-batt or a Stinger Gel-cell battery...?
