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12 years ago
(Note: I'm NOT asking for donations or anything. Just bitching.)
Argh. The new car I was so happy about is tango-uniform. Bought a 2005 Volvo V50 T5 wagon, and love it. Cold as hell air, plenty of room for my bigass frame, sounds like a bank vault when you close a door. I love the car...
...and it's in the shop after three weeks. Three of the six computers in it are proper fucked, for a total of 4,000$ to fix... and they don't even know if that will fix everything. That's the minimum to get it working well enough to do more diagnostics.
So, I have three options:
1) Fix the Volvo. I like the car, and if this fixes it, a 7 year old car is better than my 22 year old Celica.
Pros: Nice car, I like it, it fits me well.
Cons: Might be more than 4k to fix.
B) Buy a 'new' used car.
Pros: Cheaper / equal to the Volvo repairs.
Cons: At half the amount of money I can spend on it, the 'new' car is going to be much older, and the big problem with buying a used car is you never know what's going to fall off in a week. (See top.) Because I'm between jobs (I've been hired by an insurance company for tech support. Don't want to say the name here in case they do a search and find this, but it's the one with the blue hands for a logo.) I probably can't get financing at the moment (Waiting on a background check that's stalled due to the government shutdown) to get a better one.
III) Buy my old car back from the mechanic I sold it to to buy the Volvo for 1200$.
Pros: I know the car, and at worst it's the same one I've had. They'd probably have worked it over some too.
Cons; It's 22 years old. It uses oil, and it's starting to rust out in various places. It's small, which doesn't bother me much (I've had it for 9 years) but the AC was converted from Freon to r34, and because it wasn't designed for it, it won't ever be as good as a more modern car's AC... and in Florida, where it runs 99 degrees and 99% humidity for 99% of the year, that's kind of a big deal.
So. I'd pretty much decided on #1. I'm hoping that those three have soaked up whatever hit the car took and the other three are ok. The paint's a little beaten up on the car, but other than that, it's in pretty good shape.
Wish me luck...
Argh. The new car I was so happy about is tango-uniform. Bought a 2005 Volvo V50 T5 wagon, and love it. Cold as hell air, plenty of room for my bigass frame, sounds like a bank vault when you close a door. I love the car...
...and it's in the shop after three weeks. Three of the six computers in it are proper fucked, for a total of 4,000$ to fix... and they don't even know if that will fix everything. That's the minimum to get it working well enough to do more diagnostics.
So, I have three options:
1) Fix the Volvo. I like the car, and if this fixes it, a 7 year old car is better than my 22 year old Celica.
Pros: Nice car, I like it, it fits me well.
Cons: Might be more than 4k to fix.
B) Buy a 'new' used car.
Pros: Cheaper / equal to the Volvo repairs.
Cons: At half the amount of money I can spend on it, the 'new' car is going to be much older, and the big problem with buying a used car is you never know what's going to fall off in a week. (See top.) Because I'm between jobs (I've been hired by an insurance company for tech support. Don't want to say the name here in case they do a search and find this, but it's the one with the blue hands for a logo.) I probably can't get financing at the moment (Waiting on a background check that's stalled due to the government shutdown) to get a better one.
III) Buy my old car back from the mechanic I sold it to to buy the Volvo for 1200$.
Pros: I know the car, and at worst it's the same one I've had. They'd probably have worked it over some too.
Cons; It's 22 years old. It uses oil, and it's starting to rust out in various places. It's small, which doesn't bother me much (I've had it for 9 years) but the AC was converted from Freon to r34, and because it wasn't designed for it, it won't ever be as good as a more modern car's AC... and in Florida, where it runs 99 degrees and 99% humidity for 99% of the year, that's kind of a big deal.
So. I'd pretty much decided on #1. I'm hoping that those three have soaked up whatever hit the car took and the other three are ok. The paint's a little beaten up on the car, but other than that, it's in pretty good shape.
Wish me luck...
Jebal
~jebal
What luck. Three weeks in... *hugs* I think I'd roll with #1 too... #2 is a hassle for what may end up the same cost or more, and #3 doesn't sound like much of an option. Sorry about your luck though.
StarTyger
~startyger
OP
Yeah, stuff's been going kind of downhill... not unsustainably so, but still... Thanks..
