Ding Dong

[beetiger]

...the car is dead. Apparently the warning light about the oil was actually trying to tell me something. The engine has seized entirely, making it more or less useless. Even with a used engine, the cost of replacing it would probably be $3K or so, which with a blue book value of perhaps $2500 isn't really worth it.

Sorry Julia.

I'm trying to decide if I can actually convince myslef to take better care of the car I've been thinking of buying myself for a while, since the Prius is likely to be pickier than average, or if I'd really be better off buying something used and cheap but sufficient to get me to work safely. I can technically afford the new car, but it's unclear whether I should go that route.

Sympathy and car-buying suggestions encouraged. Any comments on what I should have done with my other car distinctly not encouraged.

Comments

[cloverr.livejournal.com]

As I've said before, you definately have my car-sympathies. I think we feel very similarly about automobiles and the cursed necessity of driving them. Sigh. I just ran up my Visa another 460$ yesterday with car maintenance--70,000 mile transmission maintenance, serpentine belt changed, a tire replaced, and some other dinky stuff that needed to be done and helped run up the total. Gee, you know what though?--the diagnostic the Saturn mechanic ran didn't really show up anything about the electrical system or looking like the car had any serious work done to it recently. Sigh.