This morning my car guy came by to listen to my car. It has been making a rattling noise for a while now whenever I started it. As the noise would generally go away after the car warmed up, I did as I usually do when it comes to my car - I ignored it.
Until The Husband heard it. Then he harassed me until I asked our car guy to come take a look. When I talked to him on the phone, he sighed. And then told me that it is probably one of two things. One of those things is bad and the other is a fairly easy fix.
I was hoping for the easy fix. I'm sure you can guess where this is going.
He informed us the problem was bad. He offered two solutions - replace the engine or get another car. He seemed to leaning to the newer car option. He then told me that I should only drive the car to work if I HAD to because I could end up stranded on the side of the road if and when the car decides to seize up. We are thinking for the meantime, I may drive The Husband's car to work and he will drive mine since his job is about two miles up the road while mine is a good twenty minutes away.
Also, for those of you ready to chastise me about ignoring the noise - I've been told that it wouldn't have mattered if I'd called the first time I heard it. It's only a matter of time before it dies.
The Husband and I are now weighing our options and will most likely go with getting a newer car - which I really wish we didn't have to do right now; we were hoping to have Man-Child out of college and The Husband's car paid off before we replaced mine - but what can you do? Even if we lived in town, the public transportation here is such that it's practically non-existent. We simply cannot live without two cars - it would be next to impossible.
I have to say that this poor little car has held up well - especially considering it had me as an owner for the past ten years. It's closing in on 200,000 miles so I suppose it is time to let it go.
In the meantime, I'm sitting here stuck at the house with a means of escape - that I can't use - sitting in the driveway. I absolutely loathe being without a car. I mean sure, I don't have anywhere to go right now but if I wanted to, I can't. At least not until The Husband comes home and I steal his car.
If it's not one thing, it's another - isn't that the way life goes? But, in the grand scheme of things, it could be worse.
We milked our old cars as long as we could, until hubby started talking about retirement. Then we decided to buy a new car (the first since '76) so we could pay it off before the money dramatically decreased. Hard to believe that new car is already 6 years old.
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PS: My son is still driving our old car!
I'm glad you've decided to replace it rather than pour more money into the old one. There is never a good time for this sort of thing, is there? :-(
ReplyDeleteOh no, I HATE car problems. We had to do it with our PT Cruiser a few years back. The cost to fix it would have been over $3000 so we opted to get a new car.
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