Why does this happen? My 1997 Lexus with all of its glorious 88K miles, always working, always easy to drive...except two hours after my husband leaves for the airport to fly internationally. I start the motor and an unfamiliar loud noise. Car not starting first time ever and the smell of burning rubber. Okay, I'm not stupid. It must be a belt and has to do with the starter. End of knowledge. Anyway, the car is sitting in the garage. My husband doesn't like any of the car places nearby, but I might be able to get one place to come over here. So isn't it bad to have your car towed if you don't have to? You can tell I've led an automobiley sheltered life and let me say that the Lexus has certainly enabled that to happen. Should I just have it towed to the dealership or try to get the nearby guy to fix something. You should know that because my husband baulked at the $600 for the 60K tune-up, I checked around and got the idea that we would be needing $1000's of dollars of work probably. So I took it to the dealer and everything was okay for the $600, but later they though we needed something expensive and my husband got a seal changed (power steering or transmission??) and it works okay, but leaks on the garage floor...ha, ha that's fixed now. I think that the dealer is good, but hate to have the car towed up the freeway.
Any ideas? Please only serious replies, despite my banter. I'm old...forget it.
