08-21-2009, 10:12 AM
I recall threads about new cars and DM's Prius woes but couldn't find that one and didn't think this necessarily fit, so what the heck, starting a new thread.
My Civic started whining a bit lately. She's 11 years old (are all vehicles she or only ships?), but she only has 75,000 miles on it. I'm very kind to my car -- I don't make her go to work every day; I let her live in the lap of luxury, just kicking back in the sun every day, only occasionally asking her to help me out a bit once in a while by taking me to the library or the grocery store or the post office.
So, being the kind person I am, I took her in for a check up, hoping the repairman would take a look and say -- oh, no problem, this thingie here is just rubbing against that whojamig there, and although you probably could do with a whatsit or two, we can fix you right up for a couple hundred dollars. I'd moan and whine, but manage to figure out a way to come up with it.
Alas, no.
My Honda is very happy to have cost me over $1100 to have new front and rear brakes and a timing belt package (yeah, the whole thing with the water pump and other related stuff). And it's not entirely done yet - we still have to deal with that pesky, but less immediately worrisome oil leak...
Grrrrrrrrrr. Well, at least she shut up and stopped whining.
My Civic started whining a bit lately. She's 11 years old (are all vehicles she or only ships?), but she only has 75,000 miles on it. I'm very kind to my car -- I don't make her go to work every day; I let her live in the lap of luxury, just kicking back in the sun every day, only occasionally asking her to help me out a bit once in a while by taking me to the library or the grocery store or the post office.
So, being the kind person I am, I took her in for a check up, hoping the repairman would take a look and say -- oh, no problem, this thingie here is just rubbing against that whojamig there, and although you probably could do with a whatsit or two, we can fix you right up for a couple hundred dollars. I'd moan and whine, but manage to figure out a way to come up with it.
Alas, no.
My Honda is very happy to have cost me over $1100 to have new front and rear brakes and a timing belt package (yeah, the whole thing with the water pump and other related stuff). And it's not entirely done yet - we still have to deal with that pesky, but less immediately worrisome oil leak...
Grrrrrrrrrr. Well, at least she shut up and stopped whining.
Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes.