Let bitchfest 2013 begin

[tesla321]

The seller of my car is in flat denial that he sold me a lemon. I have no legal recourse. He is going to have surgery on his carotid artery again next week---let's see if he changes heart. My suspicion is that he knew it needed a new engine! Can't prove it, though

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[malkingrey]

The Buick still stalls randomly, but if I keep enough of the electrical systems off ---Years ago, Himself and I bought our first car, a Fiat 128 (because it was the cheapest car on the lot in his home town in Westchester County NY.) It was a lovely little car, for all that it looked like a shoebox on wheels; but it undeniably had the world's weirdest electrical system. I still remember the rainy day when I discovered that if you had the headlights, the windshield wipers, and the heater all going, and then signaled for a left turn, one of the fuses would blow

[varina8]

I had that style of little Fix-It-Again-Tony. My ex and I sold it off to a sweet young thing who (like me two years earlier) thought it was cute.

The girl's father wanted to know why I was keeping the Pontiac I inherited from my grandmother and selling the Fiat. I told him that the Fiat had a higher Blue Book price. That made sense to him.

I don't know how she made out with the Fiat but I ran that 1966 Tempest coast-to-coast and lake-to-gulf almost a dozen times over the next seven years before selling it to a German sous chef who ran it off a boat ramp while drunk one night.

[tesla321]

Yes, mine is a 1994 Buick that I ran to Georgia regularly, until this time last year. Then I started renting cars at weekend rates.

[tesla321]

It's a 1994 Buick leSabre, and until someone can just keep it & troubleshoot all the wiring---! Runs though.

[malkingrey]

Odd -- the car Himself and I had after the lemony mini-van was a Buick LeSabre. Its only serious problem was low ground clearance, which meant that it bottomed out regularly on our dreadful driveway; ultimately, that led to a host of other problems involving parts of the undercarriage.

It would have lasted us quite a bit longer if an inexperienced driver hadn't stalled out a pickup truck right in front of us while trying to pull out of a driveway and into the opposite lane.

[tesla321]

I'm too old for this stuff. On the up side, no one breaks into it.