Love/Hate Automobile thread

[lizard]

starter on my cavalier pooped out. $181

luckily the grand marquis is still a major pimpwagon.

 

[lizard]

if you guys get a chance, watch the documentary, Horatio's Ride, about the first coast to coast car trip, in 1903. pretty amazing story.

here's Bud, who accompanied the two guys on the ultimate road trip!

 

[avi]

they just recently completed a historic recreation of the trip and it was chronicled in my local paper: www.sfgate.com

do a search and you'll get the details

 

[lizard]

haha

"On June 21, after a night spent lost in western Wyoming with no food, Jackson described it as the night that "thirty thousand mosquitoes died on the back of my neck," adding that both he and Crocker "were stealing speculative glances at Bud as we tightened our belts."

 

[kleo706]

I was a good 225 miles from home when my transmission crapped out. So, I replaced it and the brake lines on the "new" one burst first day on the road.

 

[lizard]

that would SUCK. I'm wondering when I'll get my first ticket in the Merc.

 

[FrostGiant]

My car's service engine soon light will come on if I don't put the gas cap on tight. I just found that out.

 

[mindspell]

My piece of shit had the fan working all the time, never stopping and making the battery go dead if I didn't take out a relay in the fuse box. I inquired and they said it was the relay. I ordered the relay for 35$. I go pick up my relay and the guy says, it is not your relay put fan timer and proceeds to describe my exact problem. Turns out the 3x2 plastic box costs 220$ and I can't change it myself because its stuck behind the brake pedal hydrolic cylinder....

 

[kleo706]

Well, I told the guy off and he fixed the brakes. SO, I now have a 97 red crown victoria with windows tinted to the point where you can't see the prisoners in the back. Sometimes, people yield to me for some odd reason

 

[lizard]

excellent. people move out of the way of the marquis real quick. having a good sized car is cool.

and the trunk is huge, you could put a couple of bodies in there.

 

[kleo706]

Well, the reason people yield to me ties into the fact that it used to be a U.S. Marshal's car.

 

[Steve]

while my brother and a friend were looking at cars, they went into the middle of a cadillac showroom and opened the trunk and said "WOW, YOU CAN FIT AT LEAST FIVE BODIES IN THERE!"

and on the subject of shitty cars, it is quite painful to hear my mom's car run. It runs on five cylinders (out of eight). 1993 lincoln town car with almost 200K miles... also leaks antifreeze as fast as you can pour it in but water stays in well. ymy brother and I spent 6 hours yesterday working on it, flushing the coolant, etc. and it's still fucked up...
passenger seat is partly ripped off too