bad car luck strikes again
August 13, 2003
I dont know what it is with me and cars, i cannot figure it out. I went to get an alignment this morning on the sentra. Guy puts it up on the machine and starts checking it out. Comes back 5 minutes later and wanted me in too take a look at it. Turns out the driver side strut is fucking BENT and the lower balljoint is fucked. How the strut got bent is beyond me. All i do is normal city driving and dont off road the fucking thing, or purposly hit pot holes or run over curbs. So after parts and labor this is going to run me 500 bucks. Not to mention that my check engine light came back on and i have a feeling its the Torque converter erroring out again, which means the tranny is going to get flushed which is another 150 bucks right there between hooking it up to the fucking computer to get the code and flushing the tranny.
O and it gets better, the paint on the hood, front bumper, and driver side quarter panel is flaking off really bad. My aunt who works at a car dealship was nice enough to run a carfax report on it to see if maybe the car got hit and whoever fixed it did a really shitty job. Which means i could have taken the car to the dealship and nail them for not disclosing that to me at the time i got the car. But as it turns out and my shitty luck strikes again, the car wasnt hit and has a clean bill of health. Well a friend of said Aunt happens to work at the nissan dealship where i got the car as an office manager. She told me to call Nissan directly and tell them what happened and see if they can spring to repaint the car. She said more then likely they will do it because they have seen it happen before on different cars where the factory paint is defective. But knowing me they are going to just tell me to go fuck off.
I’m prolly going to have to cancel my trip to Toronto. All this work that needs to be done on the car is going to seriously kill my finances for awhile and drain what ever i have saved up. I’m also going to cut back on a lot of things for now till atleast after the holidays. Yea you know i wish i could have worked somewhere that was close so that i can just take a bus or walk to work and not depend on owning a fucking car and having the life sucked out of me.
