ADUJHEWUIYD CAR/BROTHER PROBLEMS
I am so ready to kill my brother. Figuratively, not literally. I really don't want to face hard time over a truck.
In the 6 (almost 7) months since he started driving it, my truck has gone from running smoothly though noisily to being impossible to drive. Unless you want to go 25 miles per hour, with the chance of stalling out at any moment while being jerked back and forth. It is physically painful to drive the truck.
In the past month there's been a leak in the power steering - which we've fixed through using power steering fluid with stop leak. It's burning through the oil super fast (probably due to the fact that it hasn't been getting oil changes every 3,000 miles because that comes up ridiculously frequently). It's just going to hell in a handbasket. While this was likely to happen anyway, I'm POSITIVE that if I were the only one driving it, it would have been at least another year or two before this happened.
Some stats:
Mileage on car when bought summer of 02 - 35,000
Mileage October 08 - 85,000
Mileage now - 106,400
I don't understand how so many miles have been put on it. It's not like my brother has driven anywhere distant. Since he started driving, my truck has only seen Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti and Belleville, with a few small sidetrips to the Detroit area.
In the SIX YEARS I drove the truck I made the following trips (all values estimated to the best of my memory):
- countless trips to Detroit and back (60 miles roundtrip each time)
- 8 trips to Marquette, MI and back (~500 miles each way)
- 2 trips from Marquette, MI to Green Bay, WI and back (~300 miles each way)
- 1 trip from Marquette, MI to Beloit, WI to Chicago to Ann Arbor, MI to Marquette (~1200 miles total)
- 6 trips to Chicago from Ann Arbor and back. (~300 miles each way)
- 6 trips to Toledo, OH and back (~100 miles roundtrip)
- 4 trips to Cleveland, OH and back (~400 miles roundtrip)
- 4 or 5 trips to Toronto, ON Canada and back (~300 miles each way)
- 1 trip to Baltimore, MD and back (~1400miles roundtrip)
- One year of driving delivery for Jimmy John's around Ann Arbor
- Plenty of driving around Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti and some driving around town when I lived in Marquette.
I JUST DON'T GET IT. I DROVE ALL OVER THE FUCKING PLACE AND IT TOOK ME 6 YEARS TO PUT ON TWICE WHAT MY BROTHER HAS IN 6 MONTHS.
I just don't know what to do. We need a vehicle to get to and from work. Hopefully my stepdad can get this back in working order and quickly.
In the 6 (almost 7) months since he started driving it, my truck has gone from running smoothly though noisily to being impossible to drive. Unless you want to go 25 miles per hour, with the chance of stalling out at any moment while being jerked back and forth. It is physically painful to drive the truck.
In the past month there's been a leak in the power steering - which we've fixed through using power steering fluid with stop leak. It's burning through the oil super fast (probably due to the fact that it hasn't been getting oil changes every 3,000 miles because that comes up ridiculously frequently). It's just going to hell in a handbasket. While this was likely to happen anyway, I'm POSITIVE that if I were the only one driving it, it would have been at least another year or two before this happened.
Some stats:
Mileage on car when bought summer of 02 - 35,000
Mileage October 08 - 85,000
Mileage now - 106,400
I don't understand how so many miles have been put on it. It's not like my brother has driven anywhere distant. Since he started driving, my truck has only seen Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti and Belleville, with a few small sidetrips to the Detroit area.
In the SIX YEARS I drove the truck I made the following trips (all values estimated to the best of my memory):
- countless trips to Detroit and back (60 miles roundtrip each time)
- 8 trips to Marquette, MI and back (~500 miles each way)
- 2 trips from Marquette, MI to Green Bay, WI and back (~300 miles each way)
- 1 trip from Marquette, MI to Beloit, WI to Chicago to Ann Arbor, MI to Marquette (~1200 miles total)
- 6 trips to Chicago from Ann Arbor and back. (~300 miles each way)
- 6 trips to Toledo, OH and back (~100 miles roundtrip)
- 4 trips to Cleveland, OH and back (~400 miles roundtrip)
- 4 or 5 trips to Toronto, ON Canada and back (~300 miles each way)
- 1 trip to Baltimore, MD and back (~1400miles roundtrip)
- One year of driving delivery for Jimmy John's around Ann Arbor
- Plenty of driving around Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti and some driving around town when I lived in Marquette.
I JUST DON'T GET IT. I DROVE ALL OVER THE FUCKING PLACE AND IT TOOK ME 6 YEARS TO PUT ON TWICE WHAT MY BROTHER HAS IN 6 MONTHS.
I just don't know what to do. We need a vehicle to get to and from work. Hopefully my stepdad can get this back in working order and quickly.