The Larson Family

If you do any driving at night in the Fargo area, you’ve probably seen me at some point in the last three weeks. Or more accurately, you’ve seen the blast of the high-beams from my wife’s Kia Sorento blasting your pupils down to pinpricks. And believe me, I’ve seen you. Squinting, your face illuminated bright white, as you flash your headlights at me. Sorry about your ocular degeneration.

In my previous blog, you might remember I told you about how Kia Sorentos have a problem with their lights burning out. Headlights, taillights, brakelights, the works. I changed our last headlight on November 29th — the driver’s side.

About three weeks ago, the passenger-side headlight burnt out. Well, it’s been so damn cold, I just couldn’t bring myself to go out and change it. So, we minimized our night-time driving for the last three weeks. But when we did go driving at night, I kept the high beams on, just so we’d have at least one working light on both sides of the vehicle.

Woudn’t you know, it got up to a relatively balmy twenty-something today, so I finally went out and changed the bulb this morning.

So, for the record, right now we’re on pace to have a burned out light bulb every quarter. I shouldn’t complain because the Kia has mechanically been a stellar car for us. No major problems to speak of (I’m knocking) except this annoying problem with the headlights.

By the way… did I mention we’ve had a brakelight burned out for about two months? Maybe it can wait until spring.