In the spirit of that video, here I am trying to fix this old car (again) –
I can’t believe we’re going back to the cars from my youth, but now normal vehicles cost 50-100k and last about as long as wet toilet paper. Anybody buying a new car is an idiot. If you think you’re going to survive without mechanic skills, good luck with that. I imagine most people with new cars are losing whatever disposable income they managed to make, and many are teetering on the edge of having their car repossessed.
I’m pretty lucky in that I’ve ended up with three old vehicles that are fundamentally good, albeit high mileage and in need of repairs. Unfortunately the situation has degraded while I’ve been back in college, having neither time, nor money, for cars. This vehicle hasn’t run since January, when I spotted a radiator leak. Between classes, working, and repairing the awful house I inherited, I have not had the time to look at this vehicle until today.
I filled the radiator up and the leak is faster than I thought it was –
The engine sounds like it’s got other problems too, which is unexpected. It ran great when I parked it. There shouldn’t be anything wrong with it.
I need to rebuild my water heater too. The hits just keep on coming. I’m glad the traffic for the site peaked up. I don’t know why, the lack of interactivity is concerning, but at least something positive is happening. The fixing and repairing and rebuilding is wearing thin.