I’m a total freaking genius, and by genius, I mean idiot. I killed my car through neglect, and now as we are approaching a time when we want to buy a house we have to get a car. So, after consulting many who have not ever killed a car, and some who have, we have decided to get a new car. This will make it so if I screw something up again, or the car just takes a shit, we are covered for a long time, so no unexpected major expenses in the first few years of the house from cars. Saturn is going to give us some nice financing to take what little money we had left to pay on the first car, (we were 6 month shy of paying it off) and put it into the loan for the new car and our payment is only $100 more than our old minimum payment (which is fine because that is $150 less than we were paying every month because we were trying to get the car paid off fast).
Oh well, you live, you learn, I think I’m sold on the idea of buying a house now instead of a condo because I want a garage so I can get under the car once in a while if need be….which hopefully I won’t need to because we are also getting one of those new super warranties that come with every new car you buy anymore.
I hate cars, my family is cursed when it comes to cars. I thought I was digging out from under that curse, but in two years I’ve crashed one car, drove another until the exhuast literally fell off and then sold it to a high schooler who welded one of those fat ugly mufflers on it, and killed a third just by being stupid.
Barnabas says
I totally don’t want to rub it in at all, but what did you do to your car? I ask because I know there are a lot of people out there who don’t know as much as they should about car maitenance. The details of your story could serve to prevent someone else from making the same mistake.
I have killed plenty of cars myself. I have no excuse since I worked at a service station for 2 years.
BigCat says
The details are: The thing made a noise like something was rattling around, so I assumed something was loose on the undercarriage (a heat sheild or something like that). But it was actually because the lifter arms were not getting covered in oil because I hadn’t checked the oil in forever. So eventually the noise got louder and I was being lazy about checking on what it was, and then the acceleration started to suck, and I took it in and they said I ran it out of oil.
So, there you go, the lesson is, don’t be an idiot like me, check your oil every time or every other time you get gas, especially in the winter.