My dear sweet beautiful car. How I adore you so. You look so sleek, with your shape that draws in the hos. Your inability to function when the weather turns cold makes me sad. Your newly busted driver side door drives me quite mad. My poor mind is unable to cope with the insanity you've caused my head Now, with the axe I will momentarily lodge through your hood, I shall shortly go to bed. Damn shame it's my only mode of transportation to school.
hey no need to destroy a car over a busted drivers door, the drivers door is busted on my car too, so I just use the window. The heater fan doesnt work either (unless you pop the hood to turn it on with the switch under there) and it starts first time always, despite the camshaft being out of kilter so half the cylinders fire and the other half misfire. It's done 7k miles over the point at which the engine is designed to shit itself, and has a notoriously unreliable engine model.
It isn't just the door really. It's the fact that it's been giving me hell for ages now. The door is just the latest in annoyances. I've still got to come up with $175 to pay for the car being towed and fixed last week since it wouldn't fucking start. =/ There's just no real way for me not to put an axe in this thing, though I probably will stop myself from doing so until I get a new car at least.
I find that while I'm quite capable with most things, I'm as incompetent as can be with automobile mechanics. The most I've ever managed to pull off on my own was changing the oil. The fuel lines were frozen and I didn't have a place to get the vehicle out of the snow though, so I'm not quite sure what I could've done there regardless.
Ive never seen a frozen fuel line, or even heard of someone having one, it doesn't get cold enough in the UK. Ive driven in -26 in Russia and my car was ok.
Well, I wasn't around in 1895 I may be old but not that old, and I doubt there were many cars too lol A quick google tells me petrol freezing temperature is around -60 so you must have some water in there. Unless you're running a diesel car on cooking oil? I used to have all kinds of problems, that stuff freezes like water and even before it freezes it goes real thick
I had a discussion with the mechanic guy that worked on it and he said it's easy enough to avoid if I pour some dry gas in the tank every once in awhile. It's pretty common around here since we get shitloads of snow. I think we're calling for a couple feet tonight too so I get a fun drive in the morning to make up for my no-show for class today. =/ Oh, door's fixed too. It was literally frozen to the rubber. I just stuck it in the garage and pointed a heater at it for a bit and it popped right open. I also put some WD-40 on the rubber after air blasting the water out of it so I shouldn't have too much in the way of issues with opening the son of a bitch in the morning. The car wasn't sealed properly so water likes to get in through the top of the windshield and all the snow I end up tracking in probably isn't helping either. The fact that it was only 15 degrees fahrenheit this morning was probably what finished that off.
My car is 12 years old and I haven't had 1 single problem, it starts 1st time everytime. Ive never known a car like it. My dad has a new BMW 530 and he's had to replace the engine, the turbo, the torque converter and the swirl valves. My brother has a brand new van and his battery failed last week. I dont particularly look after it either, its more luck than anything.
mine is 23 years old and starts first time every time. That is despite a history of owners who didnt look after it and sitting in a field for 3 years.
Mine's ten years older than I am, at 27 years old. It still runs alright - probably because my mom obsessively maintains it (Like, she has this book where she records when she's replace engine oil + parts of the car) and it's Nissan. Heard it lasts longer. Maybe regular checkups with the mechanic and asking him for maintenance advice can help smooth the ride a lil?
Depends which engine. The SR20DET is a heap of steaming poo, mine broke twice. First a valve bent then the crankshaft.
