{"id":1033,"date":"2026-07-02T17:29:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T17:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/?p=1033"},"modified":"2026-07-02T17:29:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T17:29:26","slug":"fixing-this-old-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/02\/fixing-this-old-car\/","title":{"rendered":"Fixing this old car."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NOBODY is Buying New Cars and Dealerships are SUFFERING... Old Cars Were Just Better...\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g_pLfgxAFkE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the spirit of that video, here I am trying to fix this old car (again) &#8211; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"675\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_7270.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1034\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_7270.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_7270-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_7270-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I can&#8217;t believe we&#8217;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&#8217;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.    <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m pretty lucky in that I&#8217;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&#8217;ve been back in college, having neither time, nor money, for cars.  This vehicle hasn&#8217;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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> I filled the radiator up and the leak is faster than I thought it was &#8211; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"848\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/radiator_leak-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1038\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/radiator_leak-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/radiator_leak-1-283x300.jpg 283w, https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/radiator_leak-1-768x814.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The engine sounds like it&#8217;s got other problems too, which is unexpected.  It ran great when I parked it.  There shouldn&#8217;t be anything wrong with it.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I need to rebuild my water heater too.  The hits just keep on coming.  I&#8217;m glad the traffic for the site peaked up.  I don&#8217;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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the spirit of that video, here I am trying to fix this old car (again) &#8211; I can&#8217;t believe we&#8217;re going back to the cars from my youth, but now normal vehicles cost 50-100k and last about as long<br \/><a class=\"btn-more btn btn-danger btn-sm\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/02\/fixing-this-old-car\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1039,"href":"https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033\/revisions\/1039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}