Cars

Remember in my first post that said "as long as we have no major car problems we are fine financially"? Well guess what car problems. We are still "fine" financially...thank god for plastic (I know that still needs to be paid off, but it's better than paying cash, or taking it out of savings.)

About 8 months ago I kept hearing a thunk in the back of my car. It was fine until I would get to 65 mph, then...hang on because it was a bumpy, thunking ride. Well we had several different people look at it and shockingly nobody could tell us what the problem was. Tires fine, shocks, struts fine, everything else fine. Ok then why the hell does my car thunk as soon as I hit 65?

As time went on it kept getting worse and worse. Finally I couldn't stand it any longer. On Saturday we took the car to National Tire and Battery. Can we say big problems. Duh, I figured that.

After having the car for the morning they called us and said the following.
*The front right tye rod is shearing (not good)
*The front shocks, springs, and struts are starting to go and will need to be replaced soon.
*The back shocks, springs, and struts are GONE!!! As in there was so little spring it was ripping apart the housing unit (whatever the hell that means) Anyways that was what was causing the thunking.
The grand total for everything that needed to be done are you ready?.....$1,400.00!!!

Ya, let me go and pull that off of my money tree in the back yard. Geesh o Man, all I could do was laugh when my husband got off the phone with them.

What we decided to do was get the tye rod, and everything replaced in the back fixed first. They told us those were safety issues. So those were fixed yesterday. We paid $772.oo for that all to be replaced.

They told us that the front stuff was wearing and needed to be replaced, but it was not necessary to do it at this moment, just within the next few months. Yippie!!! Note the sarcasm in my writing!

The only "good" note to all of this is that 15 months ago we were in a car accident (not our fault) When our car was fixed they supposedly put on "high quality used parts" when replacing the damage. Well come to find out some of what was replaced in the accident was poor quality used parts, and those are some of the things that we needed replaced this weekend. So I will be calling our insurance company and telling them that they fixed our car with extremely shitty parts and see if they will reimburse us for those parts. They should, since they replaced with faulty parts.

Oh boy our good luck continues. Like I said...thank goodness for plastic!

Here is to hoping the next few days will be better than the last few! And on the flip side...at least the thunking noise is gone.