zomb
10-07-2004, 07:55 PM
Well, my car is done.
Blew the head-gasgket. (sp)
I suppose I could go into some detail. Don't read the following if you don't want to.
Over the last few weeks, the car has not been able to start a few times. The only thing to do is leave it to cool down for a good 2 hours, or get it jumped. Today, I was sick of the starting problem, so I called my mechanic and drove it to his house. We looked under the hood, hoses dry-rodded, basic over-all mess, but It was running fantastic since January until last week. Anyways. The car drove perfect, no problems, until on my way to his house it hesitated at 2 lights like it wanted to stall.. We went for a spin after checking the hood, and after paying a visit to two junk yards to check out a few cars. On our way back, the car got WORSE. I had to throw it into lower gears and sometimes neutral to keep it running. It stalled a few times and we made it to Auto zone. The guy at auto zone was very very cool, great service in his part. He took a good 20 minutes of his time looking over my car and found the big problem along with the little ones. He told me the best thing to do is buy one of the for sale signs, and take it slow and don't push it home. I almost didnt make it home, and I ate a half tank of gas from flipping it into neutral to keep it running and my hazards on, people getting pissy.
So anyways, I found a 93 red grand am SE at the one lot, it's loaded with cd player, alarm system, has 85,000 miles on it from the looks of it and I'm not sure what else. I'm going to call him in the morning and see what I can work out. I don't have a dime for it, but I hope I can get some money from this car seeing how brake lines, tires, gas lines and a few others are new since 2500 miles ago.
Choices:
1) Part it out
2) donate it to a high-school shop and get a tax return (could get a lot more than what it's worth this way)
3) see what a junk yard will give me
4) list it on eBay as is, and maybe get a couple hundred (atleast pay for my new tires) heh.
=\ I'll let you know what I decide on the red grand am, but for now, anyone interested in buying this from me? I'm exporting pics right now and will post in about 10 mins. Infact, I JUST TOOK THESE PICS today to show off my baby, that's how good it was running 7 hrs ago. =\
Blew the head-gasgket. (sp)
I suppose I could go into some detail. Don't read the following if you don't want to.
Over the last few weeks, the car has not been able to start a few times. The only thing to do is leave it to cool down for a good 2 hours, or get it jumped. Today, I was sick of the starting problem, so I called my mechanic and drove it to his house. We looked under the hood, hoses dry-rodded, basic over-all mess, but It was running fantastic since January until last week. Anyways. The car drove perfect, no problems, until on my way to his house it hesitated at 2 lights like it wanted to stall.. We went for a spin after checking the hood, and after paying a visit to two junk yards to check out a few cars. On our way back, the car got WORSE. I had to throw it into lower gears and sometimes neutral to keep it running. It stalled a few times and we made it to Auto zone. The guy at auto zone was very very cool, great service in his part. He took a good 20 minutes of his time looking over my car and found the big problem along with the little ones. He told me the best thing to do is buy one of the for sale signs, and take it slow and don't push it home. I almost didnt make it home, and I ate a half tank of gas from flipping it into neutral to keep it running and my hazards on, people getting pissy.
So anyways, I found a 93 red grand am SE at the one lot, it's loaded with cd player, alarm system, has 85,000 miles on it from the looks of it and I'm not sure what else. I'm going to call him in the morning and see what I can work out. I don't have a dime for it, but I hope I can get some money from this car seeing how brake lines, tires, gas lines and a few others are new since 2500 miles ago.
Choices:
1) Part it out
2) donate it to a high-school shop and get a tax return (could get a lot more than what it's worth this way)
3) see what a junk yard will give me
4) list it on eBay as is, and maybe get a couple hundred (atleast pay for my new tires) heh.
=\ I'll let you know what I decide on the red grand am, but for now, anyone interested in buying this from me? I'm exporting pics right now and will post in about 10 mins. Infact, I JUST TOOK THESE PICS today to show off my baby, that's how good it was running 7 hrs ago. =\