Saturday, March 5, 2011

Some days you're the windshield....

And some days you are, most definitely, the bug.

I finally got my fucking truck back from the mechanic. 4wd in perfect working order. I actually took it out and drove it today. I drove it about a hundred intown miles crisscrossing the city just to see how it would do on a "long drive". Mind you, I have had to put new turn signals, a new battery, a new rear view mirror, a patch on the windshield AND a transfer case on this fabulous vehicle which I purchased all of 9 days ago and have driven for a total of 1.

Now the front interior lights don't come on when we open the doors but it does make a lovely CLICKCLICKCLICKCLICKCLICK sound until you shut all the doors, the clock has reset itsself 3 times in the last ten hours, the glove compartment won't unlock and the power door locks have mysteriously stopped working. Better than that, if you open a door while the radio is playing, it turns the radio off until you shut the door again.

I hate to be one to cry about a used car turning out to be a lemon because you really do take your life in your hands when you buy a used car, but this reeks of the old days when used car lots would put sawdust in the oil or black pepper in the radiator just to make a car run well for a day or two to make a sale and pawn a piece of shit off on some hapless individual. The ONLY thing I can hope for with this car is that when I go to fetch the title, it turns out to be a salvage title. At least THEN, I may have some legal recourse since we did expressly ask - before signing anything - if the title had ever been salvaged and were told expressly that it was a clean title with no salvage or lien against it.

Anyone know anything about wiring in Jeeps? *facepalm*