My Car Debacle

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My Car Debacle

Friday, June 20th, 2008 | Life

Ok, so good move on my part. Move to New Zealand for 2 months and during that time sell my car to somebody who will pay for it for 24 months.

It actually seemed like a good idea. I mean I am a legal lien holder on the title and it can’t be sold without me being paid off first. I get $500 USD a month in residual income, which pretty much pays my rent wherever I go. Yep, just for selling a car.

Well I got back to America and I had no car… Also due to expensive plain tickets that pulled from the wrong accounts etc.. (grr, overdraft was setup to not pull from my savings but from my credit card as a cash advance) I am fairly low on spending cash.

So I thought I could get my mini cooper back. Talked to the guy who bought it and offered most of what he had paid for it to get the car back. Hesitant at first he agreed to do so.

However we kept talking and he mentioned that he still hadn’t sold his old car. So me, enjoying the residual income though of a perfect solution. I bought his car, a 1993 Ford (Anal) Probe with 170k miles for a $900 reduction on what he owed me for the car.

Now I was informed that it was only internal cosmetic issues with the car and that it ran fine. So I gave it a full tank of gas ($58) and then drove it to the emissions place since this is required in Arizona before you can title a car into your name. Well it failed the emissions… 3 different tests failed!!! This pretty much means that the catalytic converter needs to be replaced since it was SUPER high on NOX etc..

Well this and my friend had done a quick list of things that he noticed that needed to be replaced. Some of which included the radiator, and both cv joints on the front, as well as it had some kind of weird idle where sometimes it idles at 2000 and sometimes at 1000 and power stearing sometimes works, and sometimes doesn’t…

Needless to say i was pissed off, I mean I would have fixed all the cosmetic crap and the cv joints without making much hassel but when the emissions thing happened and I can’t even title the car until it’s fixed, I suddenly don’t want anything to do with this stupid Anal Probe.

The owner agreed to take car back but still didn’t want to give me my mini cooper back. He said he would do it because he didn’t want me to try to screw him over (since there are worse things than death and I can do them all), but he didn’t really want to and legally he didn’t have to. So I told him it was fine and so long as he took the old POS back that I would just find another car.

Well this is great in theory. I mean I will keep getting my rent paid for a couple years, but now I still don’t have a car and without a car I can’t do mobile pc repair OR get another job.

So I am actively looking for a non-shitty car for around 1500… Yeah… I know, but whatever, I mean I am not trying to replace the mini cooper, but to make life easier so I can spend more time working on my website.