I’ve been through this car so many times I’ve lost track. The brakes, the engine, the exhaust, the stereo, the suspension, the wheels, the intake… I’m running out of parts on the car that I haven’t fixed or upgraded. It kinda drives me crazy. Today, it was replacing an inexplicably broken right rear caliper, and then the obligatory brake bleed. In a couple months, it’ll be some other thing, most likely.
But it’s not all bad. It’s paid for, it runs strong, handles well, and doesn’t look too awful. It’s carried me across the country several times, and for all its rattling, poorly fitted interior parts, its moronic brake system design and nearly catastrophic engineering oversights in the powertrain, it’s also very easy to work on when it does break.
At some point, the level of annoyance with this car will become sufficient to motivate me to replace it. I don’t know when that will be, but it wasn’t today. Barely.
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