Over the weekend I replaced my timing belt. Victory tasted very good. I left Cleveland and had a very pleasant drive to Indianapolis with the car running great and gas milage of almost 30MPG! I rolled into the hotel parking lot and as I parked a bumped the curb stone. That nasty plastic on concrete sound made me cringe but it wasn't the first time. I let the car run for 30 seconds and shut it down still feeling proud about my successful, and first, timing belt change.

Ugh. The feeling went away so fast as I saw fresh coolant puddling under the front of the car. I was dejected realizing that I had just really done some damage. What did I do? I don't know and my early AM appointment won't allow me to crawl under the car with my Leatherman tool.

The car was towed to Tom Wood Volvo here in Indy and they will look at it in the morning. What the hell happened? I looked under the hood and it looked like the coolant "burst" on the passenger side. The reservoir is empty. It was a steady leak but not a river.

Any words that would feel like a pat on the back would be welcome as I feel like crap right now and I would like to feel better before my meeting with a customer.

Thanks