Seems everything wants to go wrong with the cars all at once >___>
The other day the Honda Accord we have started to have a little smell of gasoline when standing outside right by it. Then just yesterday morning…my mom noticed when I pulled out there was a little spot on the ground under where the car was, which turned out to be gas. So we took the car over to this garage run by a person we know well and he put it on the lift to check under to see what’s up. Turns out there’s a little hole in the gas tank about at the halfway point >__< Apparently at some point recently a rock or something got up underneath the car and impacted on the gas tank making the hole. All that can be done at the moment is just drive the car till it’s nearly out of gas, which that’ll be about midweek next week and then take it back over and then he can try to fix it.
Also the other car we have, a Geo Spectrum likes to leak a bit of tranny fluid as of late. I pulled out with that car this morning, and left a little bit in the driveway. It did the same thing about a couple weeks ago as well. So after the Honda got checked out, we got the Spectrum put up on the lift. One of the seals on the transmission casing is what’s causing that problem, but he just said to add tranny fluid when needed and some stop-leak stuff, since it’s only needed some more tranny fluid like once in like months and months. But still it’s just enough to bother you and make you worry about it some.
I know the issue with the Honda will be fine after it’s fixed next week, and the Spectrum will keep putting along for quite some time still, but it really just gets to me whenever shit goes wrong like this. It always has to be at once and at the worst times. Thankfully it won’t cost much at all to take care of the problems this time around. It just hurts because you’re going month to month and just scraping by with just a little to spare. I know I can help out in the aspect once I get a job, which I’ll start looking for once spring is here and it’s close to end of the semester before I’m out for the summer, but with the way the economy is that might be a bit easier said than done. But enough about that..I just wanted to vent a little on the whole car situation. Heck just writing this made me feel a little better.
