Agreed. That and automatic civics.
Agreed. That and automatic civics.
Sounds like rather than driving, she should spend a little time in a detox facility... I may be way out of line saying that but just from the little info you have given us here, it sounds like she's in the fast lane headed to a really bad day for herself or someone else. Just out of curiousity, how old is she?
nocarbud wrote: Sounds like rather than driving, she should spend a little time in a detox facility... I may be way out of line saying that but just from the little info you have given us here, it sounds like she's in the fast lane headed to a really bad day for herself or someone else. Just out of curiousity, how old is she?
+eleventy billion
kpm wrote:Even the windows had an opaque, sticky, brown coating. It looked like someone had a cigarette smoking contest in there.Weed,has to be weed.
Not necessarily. I gotta admit...I still smoke cigarettes, and if I don't clean my daily's inside every couple of weeks, I have problems seeing outside at night.
OTOH, weed could make em so mellow that they don't bother cleaning the thing..
xci_ed6 wrote: Hey now, a diesel Isuzu could make an excellent parts runner! Condemn them to a [fwd] Pontiac LeMans, with no radio to distract.
I was originally gonna say "Chevette", but then remembered that mrdontplay has one.
Damn, it's hard to make an automotive insult around here...
If you do end up getting pushed into repairing the car, take out the radio and A/C. You can say that they were broken in the off-roading trip. I guess keep the heater, so no one points fingers at you for killing her or anything.
this one of those cases were Miata is not the Answer?
mad_machine wrote: this one of those cases were Miata is not the Answer?
Of course Miata is the answer. One with no engine converted to pedal power....
No, she'd manage to break the pedals. This is what she needs.
I went to a guys house to look at a $200 shelby charger (which as far as i know is still sitting there), and his wife was like that. She had ruined the engine in the charger by driving it with no water until it had no compression or oil pressure, then done the same thing to the ford contour sitting next to it. Some people just need to take the bus.
xci_ed6 wrote: Condemn them to a [fwd] Pontiac LeMans, with no radio to distract.
She could always buy my 62 LeMans, yeah I'd hate to see it trashed, but the non-power steering & drum brakes, manual everything, and dog-leg 3-speed would certainly make her work harder to get where she's going!
Ditch it, then tell her you repaired it but could only do so much. Then present her with this.
Is she hot?
she's easily 250lbs and a chain smoker. So no, not hot.
skruffy wrote: she's easily 250lbs and a chain smoker. So no, not hot.
Right then. Have her put down before another car suffers.
Even without all the backstory...you wouldn't be doing anyone any favors by spending all that time (and presumably someone's money) fixing a '91 Grand Marquis, right?
The glass repair alone (which aren't really DIY jobs, even for me) would get you darn close to the price of a similar car in need of much less work.
Tell them straight up that the car is too far gone to fix.
I've noticed a LOT of people asking me lately (I freely offer up "the sniff test" or second opinions of mechanics' diagnosiseses to friends and family, particularly good looking girls) if their mechanic was correct that a car wasn't worth fixing.
The lesson I'm learning is, I've noticed a trend with mechanics...some of them will tell you when a car's not worth fixing anymore. And some of them will tell you that because they're too busy to work on it or do a real diagnosis.
Clem
i support the make her walk for a while until she buys her own car option. this sounds alot like my brother. first car 1990 celica GTS, within 2 years it was down a cyclinder, brakes, cracked up front bumper, rusty rear wheel wells, bad syncros and a mysterious grinding noise every time he turned left. 2000GTS brand new within 1 year (6,000 miles) the engine over revved (because he couldn't shift right) and he bend some valves, broke the water and oil pump, thn kept driving it until it ceased. parents got him a lincoln continental (because they knew he would break it and they could take it away from him and use it themselves) which lasted 2 months until he bent the throttle linkage (punching the gas too hard in a rage). finally, they took the van (that i now own) and my dad detuned it so it couldn't hit 60mph in under 20 seconds, and let him use that for a while until he got his own car. he just couldn't break that van. i can't either, but why would i want to?
xci_ed6 wrote: Hey now, a diesel Isuzu could make an excellent parts runner! Condemn them to a [fwd] Pontiac LeMans, with no radio to distract.
Condemn them to 4 door '80's Cutlass Cieras with Iron Duke 4cyl and an automatic transmission.
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