Da battery in Da Car

After 4 times having to deal with a dead battery that's still good, I've
taken a few steps to make sure I have a car battery with a charge.

Since I've kept blaming the cold on the problem - I had the new Duralast
battery for 3 months and then when it got painfully cold the last week
of January 07 it decided it didn't want to work right... I've been
taking the thing out and putting it inside since the weekend. I also
experimented to see if I needed to charge it - I don't. The car manual
for the Kia says to remove the battery if it needed charging. That makes
sense as the week I spent hooking the trickle charger up to it while
still in the car didn't exactly produce consistent results.

So the one Wednesday or Thursday it did its Dead Act, I went to Napa.
One guy there brought out a couple of meter testers. He checked the
charging system and at idle, it was working just fine. Shut off the car,
and he tested the battery with a simulated load for 10 seconds. That
also tested good.

Then he tested the cold cranking amps. The battery is rated at 590, but
the meter said 456. Ah. The guy said it's still pretty good, the battery
isn't that bad where he'd condemn it.

While talking to a few people at the anime club meeting on Saturday, one
guy said there sounds like there's a short somewhere in the electrical.
I kinda doubted that a bit, but then I remembered the test. And Myers
said he wouldn't be surprised if some critter sneaked up into the engine
area while it wasn't being driven and chewed a bit on something. There's
a drain of something like 130 amps it seems (maybe) and perhaps there's
a short in the starter system. It'll do these text book crank and
starts that are not very long and strong, but if it has to crank for a
half second longer than it likes, it acts like it stops and has to
really go again. I hope it's just something simple like a slightly bare
wire and NOT inside the starter. There's also the thing with the fuel
pump. There's times where I had to turn the thing off and on a few times
and also crank a few times before it would catch. One mechanic said you
sometimes have to "wake up" the fuel pump. but then there's times where
after I've ran it a while, it just starts right up no problem, and
probably a strong half second crank...

My mom had no problem for all the time she drove it, then I get the damn
thing and it costs me money and aggravation.

The latest with my sister...

Well, you won't believe the latest.

First of all, info we recently unearthed is public record.

If you go to http://www.landaccess.com/ and go to Carroll County, OH,
then search with the name "Castle" you'll get a list, of which Candice
Castle should be in.

Click on the Details link and you should see another list.

On that, there's the filing for the Quit Claim Deed as mom and my aunt
and my grandfather all signed the property over to my sister.

Then you see my sister filing an Open Mortgage for $40K with Grange
Bank. Mom claims this was not supposed to be 40K, but $16K and plus a
few things my sister asked if she could put on it. My mom should not
have OKed it. I knew about this one for $40K, but apparently mom doesn't
remember it, says it should have been for about $20K or so. This was to
be used to pay off mom's bankruptcy case because they didn't get a good
attorney who could have gotten mom off from paying.

Then about a year later or less, you see my sister extending that to
$75K!!! The previous mortgage is paid off then she's grabbing another
$35K!??? WTF... We're going to find out what she thought she needed $35K
for. As Myers has said, she got the property signed over to her, and saw
nothing but dollar signs as she bilked my mom out of her inheritance.
That New vehicle Myers saw probably came from that. She didn't need
it!!! It was not her money as we all know.

By the end of 2005, the same records show the sale of the house but she
used a Warranty Deed which claims she sold the house for "$1 and other
financial consideration".. Well, Myers has also said and we're saying it
now as well especially my mom and aunt, that Candice has been lording it
over us how she's got this Doctorate and how we're so stupid. She
thought we'd never find out what she did. What the hell is a warranty
deed? It also doesn't tell us exactly how much she got for the house!
She wasn't so smart that we wouldn't catch her absconding with the
money.

The $75K Grange loan is paid off. There's at least $40K she still owes
my mom and my aunt because she used it and was not authorized to do so.

Even though I couldn't figure out how to find the document online, the
Columbiana County recorder does have info to tell us where the sale of
the Bayard Road house is at their office. We found out the house was
bought for just over $17.5K and on a credit card, not the $20K we've
been told all along.

I hope the lawyer my aunt got to handle this case is able to find her
property info in Florida as well.

My younger sister and her family I don't think got any money for helping
out as was promised. And nobody's told Candice of the time when we got
the Amerigas propane tank hooked up how we woke up every morning for a
week with massive headaches because too much propane was flowing into
the furnace, and had I not figured out what was going on and reduced the
flow, that house would have killed us both - with excessive propane
fumes and an explosion. Anerigas could have been sued for not properly
adjusting the flow and as it was we ran out of propane in that week, and
nobody told us it was only 5% full - and it was to be filled up soon
after delivery but wasn't!! They keep also trying to bill mom for rent
on a tank we no longer have at an address we no longer own... I have
helped out and I deserve consideration. I think mom should get her share
of the sale of the house back, and any money she paid on taxes and
insurance. My sister forced my mom to waste her money.

If anything, I hope it gets set up that my Aunt gets the money from the
rent on the apartments here after everything gets fixed up. My aunt got
the letter from Candice after the sale of the house promising what would
be done with the money, so while my dad was offering bad legal advice
(oral agreements mean nothing?), my aunt has this letter ANYWAY.

Only thing is, my sister promised (also) that money my mom paid as rent
(or other money received from the jerkoff who moved out) was going to be
used to fix the place up - well, she's been spending that. Heh.