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Alright, so, the last few weeks the engine's started doing this wierd skippy thing in the truck, but it stops and starts and we can't pay to get something fixed until it's like... absolutely imperitive, you know?
Well, last night it got so bad I had to drive home going about 40 because otherwise it banged around so much it sounded like a monster was fighting to get out. Well, this morning my mom could barely drive it to take the kids to school so she took it to the mechanics to be fixed. This afternoon they had it done and we got it back... on the way home?
This lingering problem we've BEEN having acted up. Alright, so apparantly on the 2004-2008 Ford F150s there's a penchant for the throttle positioning sensor to go bad, thereby putting the engine into failsafe mode... essentially shutting it down because if the actual throttle body was gone bad, you could have it stick open and accelerate uncontrollably and kill everybody in the truck... which would SUCK but isn't the actual problem, it's the sensor that's most likely bad.
HOWEVER, apparantly, you can't just replace the sensor on the model we have, you have to replace the entire throttle, which is around a $600 repair... this morning's repair was just under $400!!!
AND even if we DID magically have the money to fix it, I need my truck in the morning around EIGHT FUCKING AM! I've got practice for Midsummer Night's Dream, and according to the director, since we're doing so much at each practice, if you can't come and didn't inform him by thursday (we got a calander of all the rehearsals tuesday and he gave us two days to get it sorted out) then you're going to just be dropped from the cast.
MOTHER FUCKING SON OF A BITCH I HAVE PUT SO MUCH TIME INTO THIS SHIT ALREADY! Fucking truck!
I LOVE my truck, I really do... but it's a piece of SHIT! Okay, NOBODY else in the ENTIRE fucking WORLD can get a vehicle LESS than 10 years old and have EVERY. SINGLE. THING. mess up on it like we have! It's the NEWEST vehicle we've ever owned and it waited until WE bought it over a year ago to start fucking up. Of COURSE if ANYBODY else owned it, nothing would go wrong, because, as usual, this seems to ALWAYS. HAPPEN!
I would be hard earned money that if I were to buy a BRAND NEW, straight off the factory line vehicle tomorrow, within a month, SOMETHING would need replacing. I honestly BELIEVE that would happen.
I'm convinced now that there was somebody named 'Williford' on the Titanic. Really, there had to be.
There are not WORDS to express my level of anger right now. Not at all. So to make myself feel better, I'm going to post these:
Giving yourself the giggles make everything less depressing.
Well, last night it got so bad I had to drive home going about 40 because otherwise it banged around so much it sounded like a monster was fighting to get out. Well, this morning my mom could barely drive it to take the kids to school so she took it to the mechanics to be fixed. This afternoon they had it done and we got it back... on the way home?
This lingering problem we've BEEN having acted up. Alright, so apparantly on the 2004-2008 Ford F150s there's a penchant for the throttle positioning sensor to go bad, thereby putting the engine into failsafe mode... essentially shutting it down because if the actual throttle body was gone bad, you could have it stick open and accelerate uncontrollably and kill everybody in the truck... which would SUCK but isn't the actual problem, it's the sensor that's most likely bad.
HOWEVER, apparantly, you can't just replace the sensor on the model we have, you have to replace the entire throttle, which is around a $600 repair... this morning's repair was just under $400!!!
AND even if we DID magically have the money to fix it, I need my truck in the morning around EIGHT FUCKING AM! I've got practice for Midsummer Night's Dream, and according to the director, since we're doing so much at each practice, if you can't come and didn't inform him by thursday (we got a calander of all the rehearsals tuesday and he gave us two days to get it sorted out) then you're going to just be dropped from the cast.
MOTHER FUCKING SON OF A BITCH I HAVE PUT SO MUCH TIME INTO THIS SHIT ALREADY! Fucking truck!
I LOVE my truck, I really do... but it's a piece of SHIT! Okay, NOBODY else in the ENTIRE fucking WORLD can get a vehicle LESS than 10 years old and have EVERY. SINGLE. THING. mess up on it like we have! It's the NEWEST vehicle we've ever owned and it waited until WE bought it over a year ago to start fucking up. Of COURSE if ANYBODY else owned it, nothing would go wrong, because, as usual, this seems to ALWAYS. HAPPEN!
I would be hard earned money that if I were to buy a BRAND NEW, straight off the factory line vehicle tomorrow, within a month, SOMETHING would need replacing. I honestly BELIEVE that would happen.
I'm convinced now that there was somebody named 'Williford' on the Titanic. Really, there had to be.
There are not WORDS to express my level of anger right now. Not at all. So to make myself feel better, I'm going to post these:
Giving yourself the giggles make everything less depressing.