Ode to my car....
10 years ago
My blue bomber of a car doesn't have much time left, and by that I mean the brakes are shot, their are engine issues, and transmission issues. My check engine light is perpetually on telling me about some type of emissions or gas cap malfunction.
So originally I was hoping the beast would make it until winter, giving me ample time to save extra money to put down towards my current dream car....a Jeep <3 (I know everyone advised against it)
but with a sudden confirmation that my brakes are failing, I decided I needed a car sooner rather than later. Now i would have put it off and seen how long I can make my brakes last but with my 1hr+ commute in the morning I just didn't want to risk it any more.
I will weep quietly for my car has been through many things with me, but the change of vehicle will be both a necessary functional change but also a symbolic one.
Things my bomber of a car has survived/has gone through:
-Was my first car(bought it used)
-my first serious break up
-saved my life in 2 accidents
-driver side door doesn't open from the outside, causing me to become a flexible creature with dukes of hazard style
-it is a perpetual decepticon (a magnet on the front, sticker on the back window, and an emblem on the hood)
-its fallen into a ditch
-the paint is bubbling off
-it has been a clown car on many occasions
-it rains inside my car
-has driven to Maine and back multiple times with a door that doesn't truly shut and looks like it would fall off
-it has been frozen shut by a 1/4inch layer of straight ice
-it has seen 2 graduations, high school and college
-I only put 30k miles on it, however I have had it for over 5 years
and on this I bid my Midnight Blue 2002 Pontiac Sunfire coupe, aka Saix goodbye and a much needed retirement.
Now my new car I will hopefully be picking up once it arrives at the dealer (it was in transit while I was shopping around for cars) its a............*drumroll please*
2015 Jeep Renegade latitude FWD automatic! I had to use more of my savings then I wanted but that just means the extra I make will go back into my savings.
This vehicle will better suit my current lifestyle:
-#1 I can fit multiple fursuit bins.......oh I mean I can store and transport things easier
-I won't have trouble on the unkept dirt/sand I live on at my job
-my fiancé and I can finally move shit around with out needing to borrow my parents SUV
- I can fit a bike with out being a tetris master
-OMG AIR CONDITIONING!!!!!!!
-a nice radio :D no more endless pile of cds
- OMG POWER WINDOWS!!! I no longer have to be a contortionist on the highway/at random stop lights to roll up the windows of my car when I leave them open
- I can use my driver side door :D
-this century technology
I now need new car emblems and logos to decorate, the color is the Mojave Sand which is literally looks like sand not anything of what the jeep website makes it look like lol
need to get me a toofy logo for this one and a phi paw
So originally I was hoping the beast would make it until winter, giving me ample time to save extra money to put down towards my current dream car....a Jeep <3 (I know everyone advised against it)
but with a sudden confirmation that my brakes are failing, I decided I needed a car sooner rather than later. Now i would have put it off and seen how long I can make my brakes last but with my 1hr+ commute in the morning I just didn't want to risk it any more.
I will weep quietly for my car has been through many things with me, but the change of vehicle will be both a necessary functional change but also a symbolic one.
Things my bomber of a car has survived/has gone through:
-Was my first car(bought it used)
-my first serious break up
-saved my life in 2 accidents
-driver side door doesn't open from the outside, causing me to become a flexible creature with dukes of hazard style
-it is a perpetual decepticon (a magnet on the front, sticker on the back window, and an emblem on the hood)
-its fallen into a ditch
-the paint is bubbling off
-it has been a clown car on many occasions
-it rains inside my car
-has driven to Maine and back multiple times with a door that doesn't truly shut and looks like it would fall off
-it has been frozen shut by a 1/4inch layer of straight ice
-it has seen 2 graduations, high school and college
-I only put 30k miles on it, however I have had it for over 5 years
and on this I bid my Midnight Blue 2002 Pontiac Sunfire coupe, aka Saix goodbye and a much needed retirement.
Now my new car I will hopefully be picking up once it arrives at the dealer (it was in transit while I was shopping around for cars) its a............*drumroll please*
2015 Jeep Renegade latitude FWD automatic! I had to use more of my savings then I wanted but that just means the extra I make will go back into my savings.
This vehicle will better suit my current lifestyle:
-#1 I can fit multiple fursuit bins.......oh I mean I can store and transport things easier
-I won't have trouble on the unkept dirt/sand I live on at my job
-my fiancé and I can finally move shit around with out needing to borrow my parents SUV
- I can fit a bike with out being a tetris master
-OMG AIR CONDITIONING!!!!!!!
-a nice radio :D no more endless pile of cds
- OMG POWER WINDOWS!!! I no longer have to be a contortionist on the highway/at random stop lights to roll up the windows of my car when I leave them open
- I can use my driver side door :D
-this century technology
I now need new car emblems and logos to decorate, the color is the Mojave Sand which is literally looks like sand not anything of what the jeep website makes it look like lol
need to get me a toofy logo for this one and a phi paw

AmberDarkWolf
~amberdarkwolf
I've got a magnet that says that I'm not gay, I just really like rainbows. If you want that. I can give it to you at furapoc

demonlord261
~demonlord261
OP
I appreciate the offer but I will pass :) lol I am not much of a rainbow person

Catofmount
~catofmount
congrats on the new wheels!

demonlord261
~demonlord261
OP
thanks :D

Zarkey
~zarkey
Oh, swanky! A "hot beige" Jeep.