Nik
Lifer
I get up this morning, all's fine and dandy until I'm rounding a corner after a stop light on my way to work. *CRUNKCRANKCRUNCHCRACKCRUNCHCRUNCH* YAY I'M NOT GOING ANYWHERE! Okay, I'm in 1st gear in the middle of the intersection, stopped. Yay. My car has just lurched pretty hard and now all I hear is gears grinding from the ass end. F.
So I get out and push my car into a parking lot. My differential is leaking. There's a significant puddle back at the stop light where the back of my car would have been stopped. Great, my differential's freaking DRY and parts are broken off and grinding around. Yay me.
I called my boss from a phone at a local business, hopped on mass-transit, and made it to work 90 minutes late. If that's not bad enough, I had to be there at 8 to start training my new subordinate. Thankfully, he's got several years experience and training was like talking to someone who's worked there for years. That actually is a yay.
I called a tow trucker friend from work and had her tow the car back home, and she's only going to charge me for the hook-up which is $45, so that's cool.
I got the car a few months ago from a 3rd party and it's very old, so there's no warranty to fall back on. Now I've got to locate one of these rare bucket of bolts and see if I what I can salvage. Hell, I don't even know what all needs to be replaced because I haven't cracked the differential case yet to see the horrors that lie within.
🙁
I JUST put $500 into new brakes ONE F'ING WEEK AGO. Now, when I say brakes, I mean everything. The rear brakes EXPLODED on my way home so I just e-braked it (cable) to the shop. The fronts are .05mm away from completely gone, but I didn't have the money to get those replaced at the same time. You know, I've never seen parts actually fall out onto the floor when the break drum is removed until now. Springs broken, blood and guts and sh*t and ass just falling all over the place.
So, now I have a car with brand new lifetime brake system and they'll be put to good use in the driveway until I can find a new rear end. 🙁
So I get out and push my car into a parking lot. My differential is leaking. There's a significant puddle back at the stop light where the back of my car would have been stopped. Great, my differential's freaking DRY and parts are broken off and grinding around. Yay me.
I called my boss from a phone at a local business, hopped on mass-transit, and made it to work 90 minutes late. If that's not bad enough, I had to be there at 8 to start training my new subordinate. Thankfully, he's got several years experience and training was like talking to someone who's worked there for years. That actually is a yay.
I called a tow trucker friend from work and had her tow the car back home, and she's only going to charge me for the hook-up which is $45, so that's cool.
I got the car a few months ago from a 3rd party and it's very old, so there's no warranty to fall back on. Now I've got to locate one of these rare bucket of bolts and see if I what I can salvage. Hell, I don't even know what all needs to be replaced because I haven't cracked the differential case yet to see the horrors that lie within.
🙁
I JUST put $500 into new brakes ONE F'ING WEEK AGO. Now, when I say brakes, I mean everything. The rear brakes EXPLODED on my way home so I just e-braked it (cable) to the shop. The fronts are .05mm away from completely gone, but I didn't have the money to get those replaced at the same time. You know, I've never seen parts actually fall out onto the floor when the break drum is removed until now. Springs broken, blood and guts and sh*t and ass just falling all over the place.
So, now I have a car with brand new lifetime brake system and they'll be put to good use in the driveway until I can find a new rear end. 🙁
