I. HATE. CARS!
We have two cars. Currently only one runs. Here's my tale of woe!
When we were driving back from Ohio a few weeks back, our car(a wonderful SUV that we've owned since 2001) smelled funny. There was this burning rubber smell that permeated the cabin. Mark and I checked the tires, etc and couldn't figure out the problem. Remember that the car broke down in January and we'e still paying off that bill.
Fast forward to the week before the trip from hell (my last entry). The car wouldn't start. Mark's mechanic towed it to his shop, had alook at all the fluid levels, and determined that it was just a loose wire or something, so we felt confident taking it to Rhode Island. It gave us no problems whatsoever in RI.
We returned home on Monday (smoothieless and tired but the car ran fine!) The following Thursday (nearly 2 weeks ago), we went to go to the grocery store and there was this ominous sound of metal clunking against metal. We quickly returned it to the driveway and Mark looked under it, but couldn't find any problems with it. Still, we both felt that this was a bad sign.
The following day, we went to a car dealership. This dealership was having all these deals where they paid off existing loans, etc. Well, since we owe a few thousand more than the blue book value, this sounded like a great idea! NOT! Turns out they'd give us about 1/20th of what the car was worth in trade in and offered to roll our loan into a new loan, so our monthly payments would be something like 700.00 if we bought a 3 yr old car from them. Um...no! There's NO way we could do that.
A few days later, Mark took the car to a transmission specialist and got the bad news. The transmission is totally gone and there are metal shavings in the pan (whatever that is). It'll cost us at least 4500.00 to fix it. This is on top of the 1700.00 we're still shouldering for the repairs in January.
Thank God we have a second car, because THIS one won't be getting fixed for a few months.
I hate cars :P
When we were driving back from Ohio a few weeks back, our car(a wonderful SUV that we've owned since 2001) smelled funny. There was this burning rubber smell that permeated the cabin. Mark and I checked the tires, etc and couldn't figure out the problem. Remember that the car broke down in January and we'e still paying off that bill.
Fast forward to the week before the trip from hell (my last entry). The car wouldn't start. Mark's mechanic towed it to his shop, had alook at all the fluid levels, and determined that it was just a loose wire or something, so we felt confident taking it to Rhode Island. It gave us no problems whatsoever in RI.
We returned home on Monday (smoothieless and tired but the car ran fine!) The following Thursday (nearly 2 weeks ago), we went to go to the grocery store and there was this ominous sound of metal clunking against metal. We quickly returned it to the driveway and Mark looked under it, but couldn't find any problems with it. Still, we both felt that this was a bad sign.
The following day, we went to a car dealership. This dealership was having all these deals where they paid off existing loans, etc. Well, since we owe a few thousand more than the blue book value, this sounded like a great idea! NOT! Turns out they'd give us about 1/20th of what the car was worth in trade in and offered to roll our loan into a new loan, so our monthly payments would be something like 700.00 if we bought a 3 yr old car from them. Um...no! There's NO way we could do that.
A few days later, Mark took the car to a transmission specialist and got the bad news. The transmission is totally gone and there are metal shavings in the pan (whatever that is). It'll cost us at least 4500.00 to fix it. This is on top of the 1700.00 we're still shouldering for the repairs in January.
Thank God we have a second car, because THIS one won't be getting fixed for a few months
I hate cars :P
posted by Breezy at 5:28 AM
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