Car Update

[sarahmichelef]

The guys looked it over and claim they couldn't find anything wrong with it.  They say all fluids were fine, but they put it up on the lift "one more time" and after that found a number of things that they tell us might cause colossal failure at any moment.  We suspect that they found an error that they made when installing the new water pump and aren't telling us, and are telling us the other stuff to cover their own asses, which doesn't make me particularly happy.  They put in twelve bucks worth of transmission fluid and sent it home.  It's running fine.

That said, we are starting to consider replacing the car.  It's 12 years old, almost 13 (a 1995 model), and has 155k miles on it.  It has definitely done its time.  We were talking this morning and realized - if we buy a new car now, it is one that TRex could conceivably drive when she gets her drivers' license, since we have every intention of driving the thing into the ground just like we have these 2 cars.  How scary is THAT?  It also makes the thought of shelling out for new wheels quite a bit more palatable.

Comments

[nenie.livejournal.com]

seriously, it would be really, really close

[alphasarah.livejournal.com]

That would be hella impressive, given that we had the smaller half of the backseat of the Taurus down and were working to keep a clear view out the rearview mirror.

If/when we go back to 2 cars, I'm totally looking at one of the supercompacts, though.

[nenie.livejournal.com]

wait, you said NOTHING about being able to see out the back window...

seriously, though. the car is surprisingly roomy