I got my car back on Monday. Apparently the emissions problem was with the catalytic converter – there wasn’t one. Or, to be more precise, someone hollowed it out. With my new converter in place, I’m well below emissions specs.
So Craig and I headed out yesterday in my new ride to visit Mighty-O Donuts (best vegan donuts I’ve ever tasted, by the way). Umm… yeah… let’s just say we need to learn how to drive stick. Jump-starting my dead battery went smoothly, but the rest of the ride, from the whiplash in the parklot, to the multiple stallouts on hills, to Craig nearly rolling backwards into a Porsche before stalling out in oncoming traffic, was a little less smooth.
The saga continued today with another dead battery. The problem with a dead battery in a stick shift is that when I inevitably stall out, I can’t restart the car. So I had to drive back and forth on my flat neighborhood streets before venturing out into actual traffic. And I made it about a block before someone plowed into me.
Damn I’m glad my car cost $300.
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Considering how much money you’ve had to spend to fix the car and how much you’re going to end up spending to keep it on the road that car costs nowhere near $300.
Holy crap. Wrecked? Totaled? Problem solved?