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doormouse

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I'm jinxed!!!

First my car breaks down in the middle of peak hour traffic... in the middle of the road!! Managed to push it to the side of the road once everyone veered around me (really nice of them to offer assistance). Waited over an hour before my sister could come tow me to a safer location to leave my car.

A week later, the ex decides he has time to look at it. After calling every wreckers in the area, he managed to finally locate the part in Melbourne. $170 later for a new coil, the car still won't start.

Another week later, he decides he has time to look at it again. This time it was some weird looking plate thing that plugs onto the distributor (has circuits and stuff in it). Again, no wrecker has one and again, has to come from Melbourne. $350 almost... turned out they supplier didn't have the one for my model car *sigh*

More chasing around, we finally managed to find a second hand distributor, again has to come from Melbourne :rolleyes:

Due to arrive today, so I borrowed said ex's car this morning. Took the kids to school.. freedom of driving again. Go to start his car... won't start.

TWO hours later :( being 31degrees and all, help finally arrived and his car started.

So now, almost four weeks later, I'm still without my car, and his I don't even know if it will start again.

Anyone want to buy a car?
 
My poor little DoorMouse,

Pardon the pun, but it sounds like your ex is making you squeak. He's making you run around in circles so he can feel good. Take your car to a local mech. you can trust and have them look at it. I'm almost sure it won't cost as much as your ex is running you for. ($480.00 already?) (Yeah I know a responsible mech might have charged you this much, but your car would be running.)

I've dealt with this before. A neighbor had car trouble. Her ex told her he could fix it. He played the parts game for almost a month, while charging her outrageouse prices for the parts. She finally asked me to look at it. The problem trned out to be a Selenoid, (A type of switch,) which I picked up for $19.00. (I'm not saying this is the problem, but it shouldn't cost anywhere as much as you have already paid to fix the problem, not too mention it shouldn't take this long to fix the car.) It seems my neighbors ex had decided that if he couldn't fuck her one way, he would fuck her another.

Cat

P.S. Good luck, and take your wheels to a Mech.
 
SeaCat said:
My poor little DoorMouse,

Pardon the pun, but it sounds like your ex is making you squeak. He's making you run around in circles so he can feel good. Take your car to a local mech. you can trust and have them look at it. I'm almost sure it won't cost as much as your ex is running you for. ($480.00 already?) (Yeah I know a responsible mech might have charged you this much, but your car would be running.)

I've dealt with this before. A neighbor had car trouble. Her ex told her he could fix it. He played the parts game for almost a month, while charging her outrageouse prices for the parts. She finally asked me to look at it. The problem trned out to be a Selenoid, (A type of switch,) which I picked up for $19.00. (I'm not saying this is the problem, but it shouldn't cost anywhere as much as you have already paid to fix the problem, not too mention it shouldn't take this long to fix the car.) It seems my neighbors ex had decided that if he couldn't fuck her one way, he would fuck her another.

Cat

P.S. Good luck, and take your wheels to a Mech.

My thoughts exactly!

$170 for a coil?????

I hate to tell you this, doll, but the last coil I bought, maybe 6 or 7 years ago, was right around $15, and it was for a Nissan, one of the more expensive cars to buy parts for.
 
cloudy said:
My thoughts exactly!

$170 for a coil?????

I hate to tell you this, doll, but the last coil I bought, maybe 6 or 7 years ago, was right around $15, and it was for a Nissan, one of the more expensive cars to buy parts for.

The quote I got from the Honda dealer was actually more ($182 I think from memory). The ex got trade discount on it.

I'm not sure he's messing me around, I just think he doesn't have a f_en clue what's wrong with it. There's no spark, even I knew that LOL
 
doormouse said:
The quote I got from the Honda dealer was actually more ($182 I think from memory). The ex got trade discount on it.
Wait...that's Australian dollars or US?

I know your distress, DM. Earlier this year my car was stolen, trashed, flipped over and set on fire. Good thing I had just had the insurance renewed. :rolleyes:

#L
 
Aussie dollars.

It just makes it harder to get parts being in the country. Most people drive 4WDs and there's only one wrecker that deals with Hondas.

It's either pay the rediculous new parts price, or try to get them interstate.
 
Prettyass said:
Not when it's between species like a dog and a mouse.

a.) I'm nowhere near the Snake, believe me.

b.) Sex between human races is legal, why should it be illegal for animals. (then again I'm not too familiar with the law)

c.) I only talked about a hug and a kiss. You people always make sex out of that. Tsk tsk.

Snoopy, :)
 
SnoopDog said:
a.) I'm nowhere near the Snake, believe me.

b.) Sex between human races is legal, why should it be illegal for animals. (then again I'm not too familiar with the law)

c.) I only talked about a hug and a kiss. You people always make sex out of that. Tsk tsk.

Snoopy, :)

Sex between two breeds of the same species, like a beagle and a poodle would be, but not betweeen a dog and a mouse.

Hugging and kissing would be okay, though.
 
SnoopDog said:
a.) I'm nowhere near the Snake, believe me.

b.) Sex between human races is legal, why should it be illegal for animals. (then again I'm not too familiar with the law)

c.) I only talked about a hug and a kiss. You people always make sex out of that. Tsk tsk.

Snoopy, :)

We are all a bunch of filthy animals....LOL.
I'll hug the puppy anyday.:cool:

Hey mouse, it's probably cheaper if we ship you the parts from here, hubby works in an autostore....LOL We'll even send instructions so you can do it yourself.:rose:
 
Two things I would suggest:

1) Find a GOOD local mechanic. The search for said mechanic may take weeks and involves talking to a lot of people. The key is to concentrate on mechanical skill, not personality. A good mechanic is hard to find, but worth it!


2) The prices you list are outrageous! I would try to find (Literotica?) connections in the US and become an importer of car parts.

JMHO.
 
ABSTRUSE said:
We are all a bunch of filthy animals....LOL.
I'll hug the puppy anyday.:cool:

Hey mouse, it's probably cheaper if we ship you the parts from here, hubby works in an autostore....LOL We'll even send instructions so you can do it yourself.:rose:

Sounds good to me LOL

If the distributor doesn't show up today, I might take you up on that ;)

Oh, and Snoop, a beagle and a mouse is very legal in my book :p
 
doormouse said:
Sounds good to me LOL

If the distributor doesn't show up today, I might take you up on that ;)

Oh, and Snoop, a beagle and a mouse is very legal in my book :p

That is one of the most romatnic things a woman has said to me. :D

Snoopy
 
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