Nine years, 130,000 miles and LOTS of moving me and all my stuff around over the years finally took its toll on Brian's car. It was acting up last Wednesday. Diagnosis: a bad ignition coil. We picked it up from the shop on Thursday and had to take it back that same night because the problems had gotten worse (how the repair people failed to notice this is beyond me). By Friday we were told that the alternator and transmission were also shot. So now we have a choice: pay a ton to fix it or dive head first into the foreign world of car shopping.
Car shopping is SCARY! And slightly depressing since we hadn't really anticipated having to buy a new car in the near future. Luckily, we still have my Accent. And luckily Brian's mom is off for the summer, Brian's grandpop rarely drives now, and my parents are coming out soon to fly to New Mexico, so there are plenty of borrowable vehicles to go around if we need one. (Watch out though, we may trade yours in for something fabulous!) And super-luckily, Brian and I can still carpool to work, so we're in pretty good shape. Hopefully our ability to wait out a good deal will make us indispensible to car salespeople and we'll get something good within our price range. Or we'll win the lottery and after a long stint traveling the world we'll buy everyone new BMWs and call it a day. Whichever.
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so, i am up $6 so far in vegas. unfortunately i spent $2 on margaritas at Bill's so you only $4 in the car fund. However, I will throw down $20 on Black tonight. I think we can turn that into a nice downpayment. And then you will owe me instead of some shady dealer.
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