Well Melbourne put on all 4 seasons today. I woke up for a sunny Saturday morning and I felt guilty that I wasn't planning to go for a ride, I wanted to do some more work on my little truck and my twin turbo Subaru. I wandered out into the driveway and installed the new tonneau cover, making sure that I measured twice and cut once, the support rails and buttons for the elastic straps require that the body is drilled and the hardware pop riveted in place, so I didn't want 4mm holes all over the place. Anyway, a couple of hours of work, and it was done, just as the rain started to bucket down.
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As it was raining I left the little truck and drove the twin turbo Subaru into the carport for an oil change. I "inherited" it from my youngest son when I sold him my 2015 Ford Territory that I've had from new, I took the Subaru as a trade-in because, being a Subaru, with all of the problems inherent to the marque, Tim had been late to a couple of TV jobs due to it's unreliability and was doing more miles in our crappy old 1997 Hyundai "spare" car that, for all it's faults is 100% reliable. He needed a bigger, better car, and I wasn't using the Territory, so we did a deal. But I digress. I dumped the old oil that didn't look that bad, (although there was at least half a litre too much of it, better too much than not enough I guess...) installed a new filter, and added a dose of "Pro-Ma" oil additive.
With the Pro-Ma, you need to run the engine up to temp, tip it in, then run the engine for at least 20 minutes, so I jumped in to meet up with my new best friend Mick, to buy his "Joe Rocket" perforated leather bike jacket. By now the rain was absolutely bucketing down, and then when I turned from one main road to another, the road ahead was blanketed with what looked like..... snow?
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I drove up one street and my GPS told me to turn left into a street, ahead. I did, and AWD or not, the Subaru did a 180, I was driving over a bed of hail!
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It was only small stuff, but tons of it, so probably more like snow really. Anyway, I kept driving and a mile down the road it was all gone. I caught up with Mick, gave him the princely sum of 50 bucks and took the jacket, and another one he threw in for free, what a nice guy. It was raining and we were standing outside so we agreed that we'll have to go for a ride sometime soon, and parted. All in all, an interesting day.