Car trouble be gone already!
Someday when the stars are aligned just right,I am going to win myself a brand new car so I don’t have to deal with car issues and flakey mechanics who overcharge,don’t know what they are doing and basically end up not fixing anything.I say this because last week,I learned just how costly auto repair really is.
Last year I bought a mitsubishi Galant that had problem after problem after problem.That car squeaked worse than a mouse and bolts went missing from it every single day.To this day I still can’t figure out where all the bolts went,all I know is I spent a small fortune on bolts every single week.Maybe the galant swallowed them,we’ll never know.When the galant was totalled in a wreck in May,I got an Infiniti J30.Nothing fancy,just basic enough to get me from point A to point B.For a while,everything was good then it started cutting off.
Being mechanically challenged,I had no clue what was wrong.I went to a mechanic who did a tune up and replaced a few parts (I’ve forgotten the name of the parts) claiming that would fix the issue.Instead,the issue worsened and he seemed to create new problems for me…my car started smoking and made this really awful noise each time I turned the wheel.To say all this frustrated me would be the understatement of the year.I decided to take the car to yet another mechanic to diagnose exactly what the issue was.He thoroughly checked out the car and he found that my timing was off and I would need a timing belt replacement before he could do anything.He also told me he’d need to do something about the oil pressure and that I’d probably need an engine overhaul.I’ll spare you the total auto repair estimate he gave me because I don’t want to be responsible for any broken bones when you fall off your chair in shock.
Needless to say,after getting a quote from him,I decided it would be better to just buy another car instead of fixing the infiniti.I’m now the proud owner of a Kia Sephia that runs good,doesn’t cut off or make weird noises and the best part is,its got just 103K miles on it,the AC and heat work great,the radio works (the radio in the infiniti didn’t work so this is a very big deal) and its paid off!!

