What The Heck Is A HID Unit?

Three visits... three visits in over three weeks was how long it took for me to get my front passenger-side headlight replaced on my car. It all started when I came home one evening and Megan noticed that the headlight was out. I thought there was something funny because for a while it seemed like everything was so much harder to see at night.

So, to avoid legal ramifications, I took my car to the dealer to hopefully get the bulb replaced. I should have noticed that something was wrong because I waited over three hours for them to do the job. When the service guy finally came to me with the keys, he informed me that the problem was not the bulb, but the entire HID unit. The part had to be ordered from another site AND it was going to cost about $320 doctors. So I would have to schedule an additional whole day of service to get it replaced. Disappointed I drove my one headlighted car home.

About two weeks later, the HID unit was available and it fit my work schedule to bring the car in. I dropped it off in the morning, and later that afternoon dropped Megan off to wait (I had to work that evening). She waited there for over two hours, only to find out the installed unit was defective. Therefore, they needed to order ANOTHER unit and schedule another service date.

Well, everything was done today and i finally have two working headlights again. I can visualize the road a lot better now. The best surprise was that the repair cost only about half what they estimated.

I've been listening to a lot of Broken Social Scene these days. The refrain for this song "Major Label Debut (Fast)" is either "I'm all f**ked up" or "I'm all hooked up" both of which, I think, are appropriate for this entry.