Isn't this great?
Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2005 6:37 am
I don't have a single car in my driveway that I'm not scared to drive right now...
Patti - Her left front strut mount is shot, and it's getting worse every time I drive it. The slightest turn of the steering wheel or the slightest indication of a bump, the thing starts clunking all through the car.
Ginger - I still haven't figured out what that terrible noise is in the left front, but it's getting worse too. It's a very yucky dragging sound that is speed-dependant, coupled with some clunking as well. It's getting worse everytime I drive it too.
I dunno what I'm doing wrong, but although I've never had any serious engine problems, my suspensions come to pieces
The wagon - The classic bad starter/contacts problem. Most of the time I turn the key, it just clicks. I hafta fiddle with it, or worse get a big long pole and bonk the starter a few times. It's an auto so I can't pop-start it.
The Isuzu truck - It's got its own problems, and barely runs, and on top of that, it's technically sold and not even registered
So I'm gonna hafta drive Patti very carefully to school tomorrow, and when I get home, I'm gonna yank the wagon's starter and see if maybe I can just replace the contacts, or if not, just get a new starter for it, and then at least I will have the wagon to drive until I get a mount for Patti and get Ginger straightened out.
This is why I would like to have just one new car that I don't hafta worry about, so I can play around with the old cars on my own time.
Patti - Her left front strut mount is shot, and it's getting worse every time I drive it. The slightest turn of the steering wheel or the slightest indication of a bump, the thing starts clunking all through the car.
Ginger - I still haven't figured out what that terrible noise is in the left front, but it's getting worse too. It's a very yucky dragging sound that is speed-dependant, coupled with some clunking as well. It's getting worse everytime I drive it too.
I dunno what I'm doing wrong, but although I've never had any serious engine problems, my suspensions come to pieces
The wagon - The classic bad starter/contacts problem. Most of the time I turn the key, it just clicks. I hafta fiddle with it, or worse get a big long pole and bonk the starter a few times. It's an auto so I can't pop-start it.
The Isuzu truck - It's got its own problems, and barely runs, and on top of that, it's technically sold and not even registered
So I'm gonna hafta drive Patti very carefully to school tomorrow, and when I get home, I'm gonna yank the wagon's starter and see if maybe I can just replace the contacts, or if not, just get a new starter for it, and then at least I will have the wagon to drive until I get a mount for Patti and get Ginger straightened out.
This is why I would like to have just one new car that I don't hafta worry about, so I can play around with the old cars on my own time
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