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Jan. 10th, 2003 09:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tylikThe problem is that I really want to keep my car.
This is completely clear to me. Kinda wish it wasn't so much...
For about $1800 I can have everything fixed, including putting a new transmission in (which it may or may not need). I have sometimes found Samurai's for around $2000, with, it almost need not be said, better bodies than mine has -- though who knows what other technical problems, my engine itself is in good shape and everything else with the car, pretty much, has been replaced. (Though I'd still be looking at having to pay to get hitches on them and wired, most likely, and moving the stereo and speakers over. And I'l lose the steel plates that are welded to the frame and give my stereo such lovely extra security.)
I have a suspicion that the prudent thing to do is buy a new car. Of course, this is complicated by the fact that I've usually disagreed with a lot of the conventional wisdom concerning cars. I'd have to pay *so* much more to get a car that I was pretty sure wasn't going to develop major problems soon.
Will someone please talk some sense into me, please?
This is completely clear to me. Kinda wish it wasn't so much...
For about $1800 I can have everything fixed, including putting a new transmission in (which it may or may not need). I have sometimes found Samurai's for around $2000, with, it almost need not be said, better bodies than mine has -- though who knows what other technical problems, my engine itself is in good shape and everything else with the car, pretty much, has been replaced. (Though I'd still be looking at having to pay to get hitches on them and wired, most likely, and moving the stereo and speakers over. And I'l lose the steel plates that are welded to the frame and give my stereo such lovely extra security.)
I have a suspicion that the prudent thing to do is buy a new car. Of course, this is complicated by the fact that I've usually disagreed with a lot of the conventional wisdom concerning cars. I'd have to pay *so* much more to get a car that I was pretty sure wasn't going to develop major problems soon.
Will someone please talk some sense into me, please?
