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.
3 comments:
I would trust no one at the garage. The dealership that I used to work with at the workshop used to create problems in the car so the customers come back with another problem .. for a problem like leakage, or something with the tank. it only needs some welding and it is easy to do.
Hopefully they dont charge that much
Welcome to life. It's like that with everything. Whenever something starts to go right.. things go wrong it seems all at once.
There is something wrong with our car too and I'm not even going to bother with it right now. Too many other things to worry about so just have to hope whatever it is won't make the car crap out anytime soon.
Now everyone knows why I always bought or leased new cars. I'd rather pay 300 bucks a month for a new car for 4 years and not have to worry about anything except oil changes. I always felt safe in my G6. I miss that car =[
Like Ben said.. hope it doesn't cost that much to get fixed. And don't worry.. something else will come along before you know it cuz it usually does.
Ben: I trust this person we go to. Besides you pretty much stand right there while he's working on it, so even if he were to do such a thing, it's be hard not to notice it.
Andi: Yeah I know..it's life, might as well be used to it.
What's up with your car?
Yeah that seemed to work well for you doing it that way. Sucks though you had to lose it (
It shouldn't cost much at all really..it's just basically patchwork for the Honda. The Spectrum..well it'll stay as is, and we'll just run the wheels off of it. That's what we've always done here with the cars.
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