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re: PSA: If your kids have a car, drive it every once in a while to check how it drives.
Posted on 1/28/22 at 2:57 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt
Posted on 1/28/22 at 2:57 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt
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Every kids first car should be a busted piece of shite that requires riding around with funnels and rags and fluids. It builds a lifetime appreciation for having nice things.
That's basically how my first 3 cars were. In my trunk, I made sure I always had a full thing of coolant, oil, transmission fluid, brake fluid, power steering fluid, jump cables, funnel, and paper towels.
I became accustomed to checking my fluids once a week.
Hell. During one of first dates back in college, my car broke down when I was out with my now wife. She helped me push it out of the street into a parking lot. She still stayed with me after that whole ordeal. That's when I knew that she was a real one
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Posted on 1/28/22 at 3:15 pm to Blutarsky
For real if my parents would of every drove some of the cars I had as a teenager, the no breaks was the worst and it was in a few cars, either rear lines clamped off or just leaking fluid so bad they would hit the floor no pressure before I could get home to re fill
Posted on 1/28/22 at 3:18 pm to Blutarsky
When I first started driving (I was 22 and because of the and controls its the only vehicle I can drive) I would ignore everything because I didn't want to have to be without my van for a day or two..
Well my transmission eventually gave out and had to get a new one and was without it for about a week. After that, if I thought I heard something that sounded different I would get it checked out.
Well my transmission eventually gave out and had to get a new one and was without it for about a week. After that, if I thought I heard something that sounded different I would get it checked out.
Posted on 1/28/22 at 3:18 pm to Blutarsky
As a family we drive our vehicles till they die!
We do not buy our kids cars when they turn 16 and they usually get a hand me down their senior year or when they get ready to go to college.
My oldest daughter got a hand me down Honda Accord wagon that was a hand me down from my sister and her husband. The odometer quit working around 300,000 years and you had to use the tac to know how fast you were driving. We drove it form several more years after that. She took it to college after I had replaced about everything you could possibly think of. Alternator, belts, water pump, starter, cv joints, front bearings, front & rear breaks, window washer motors, radiator, hoses, etc... the list goes on.
While I was working in Huntsville and she was at UAH I could handle quick repairs easily. I then took a job in Birmingham and it was more difficult.
The radiator fan quit and it took a couple of weeks to get over to take care of it. She learned as long as she was rolling it would not get hot. If she got to a red light she would turn right and go around the block or do circles in the parking lot.
She ended up getting a mechanical engineering degree and fix just about anything herself.
We do not buy our kids cars when they turn 16 and they usually get a hand me down their senior year or when they get ready to go to college.
My oldest daughter got a hand me down Honda Accord wagon that was a hand me down from my sister and her husband. The odometer quit working around 300,000 years and you had to use the tac to know how fast you were driving. We drove it form several more years after that. She took it to college after I had replaced about everything you could possibly think of. Alternator, belts, water pump, starter, cv joints, front bearings, front & rear breaks, window washer motors, radiator, hoses, etc... the list goes on.
While I was working in Huntsville and she was at UAH I could handle quick repairs easily. I then took a job in Birmingham and it was more difficult.
The radiator fan quit and it took a couple of weeks to get over to take care of it. She learned as long as she was rolling it would not get hot. If she got to a red light she would turn right and go around the block or do circles in the parking lot.
She ended up getting a mechanical engineering degree and fix just about anything herself.
Posted on 1/28/22 at 3:19 pm to Mariner
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When it comes to a woman sinking $300 to fix brakes and $1000 to get new tires vs getting nice looking home decor on sale, guess where the money will be going?
This. My wife drops 200.00 every other month or 100.00 to get waxed on some damn schedule to get a haircut but can’t be bothered to get to keep the same schedule. If I do t take care of the maintenance on the vehicle she’d be in a damn death trap. When will they realize that you have to keep your car up just like their beauty maintenance schedule.
Posted on 1/28/22 at 3:22 pm to NoMoreKnees
My youngest daughters computer on her 04 Crown Vic died and we have been waiting since August. The computer chip shortage not only hits the new cars! Stopped by the shop on Wednesday and the mechanic said he finally got a supplier to build one for him. Crazy times!
Posted on 1/28/22 at 3:32 pm to Blutarsky
Reading this reminds me why I only buy Toyotas and Hondas
Posted on 1/28/22 at 3:37 pm to Blutarsky
I bought my sons a vehicle when they were 16. Those vehicles sat in the driveway until they could:
Identify the alternator, power steering pump, AC compressor, brake master cylinder, air filter, water pump, and radiator, and knew how to check, service and/or fill each with the correct fluid.
They had to be able to correctly change the oil, rotate the tires, and do a complete brake job (pads) I didn't make them turn the rotors, or rebuild slave cylinders.
It took each of them about a month to get it all done. Once done, I bought them each a pretty good and complete set of tools, and an emergency kit, and said "this is your car."
The only thing I have had to do in 8 years is drop an oil pan and put in a main seal for one of them.
Identify the alternator, power steering pump, AC compressor, brake master cylinder, air filter, water pump, and radiator, and knew how to check, service and/or fill each with the correct fluid.
They had to be able to correctly change the oil, rotate the tires, and do a complete brake job (pads) I didn't make them turn the rotors, or rebuild slave cylinders.
It took each of them about a month to get it all done. Once done, I bought them each a pretty good and complete set of tools, and an emergency kit, and said "this is your car."
The only thing I have had to do in 8 years is drop an oil pan and put in a main seal for one of them.
Posted on 1/28/22 at 3:38 pm to NoMoreKnees
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My oldest daughter got a hand me down Honda Accord wagon that was a hand me down from my sister
We had a 92 Accord wagon, drove it for over 300k before selling it. A great car.
Posted on 1/28/22 at 3:55 pm to Blutarsky
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I’m sure he would have ignored all of this until a major problem popped up.
Is your kid some kinda tard?
Posted on 1/28/22 at 4:08 pm to 777Tiger
Lolz
Posted on 1/28/22 at 4:20 pm to NoMoreKnees
quote:Wow.
Honda Accord wagon ... The odometer quit working around 300,000 years
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and you had to use the tac to know how fast you were driving.
That's how they judge pit road speed in NASCAR.
Posted on 1/28/22 at 4:25 pm to Blutarsky
When my buddy got married his wife brought her car in to the relationship and he brought his truck. It never dawned on him to make his wife go by somewhere and change her oil. It never dawned on her that that was something that needed doing (apparently her dad always took care of that). So about a year and a half into marriage her motor grenades in her fairly new car. Turns out it was slap out of oil. She didn’t know changing oil was a thing.
This post was edited on 1/28/22 at 4:26 pm
Posted on 1/28/22 at 4:58 pm to bbarras85
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My little brother had a 1995 Nissan hardbody pick up. He went almost 50,000 miles without changing the oil. I am still not sure how it didn't burn up.
I had a buddy with a 99 Nissan Sentra that went 45,000 miles without an oil change. His motor didn't burn up either and he drove the fricker another 5 years before selling it.
Posted on 1/28/22 at 5:09 pm to joshnorris14
quote:Not when the parent is the one paying thousands for repairs.
You probably could've let him learn this one on his own
Posted on 1/28/22 at 5:22 pm to Blutarsky
Did you give the car to your son, or did he have to buy it off you?
I could possibly understand helping to fix his mess if you sold him this car 3 months ago and it's having problems, but if you *gave* him the car then it should be expected that he maintains it.
My parents made me buy my first car FROM them, for the Kelly Blue Book listing private seller price. When I was 17 and worked my balls off to buy this car I thought it was unfair, since I've grown up and become an "adult" I thank them for the valuable lesson it taught me. They also made me pay for all maintenance and upkeep, although my dad did help me out one time when my radiator and fan shite the bed and it was $1500 to fix.
He still made me pay everything I had to get it fixed, but it wasn't enough and he picked up the slack. At that moment when he had to shell out $1000 from his own pocket, I felt terrible because I had ignored any maintenance on the vehicle and I also had to ride the bus to school while it was in the shop for a week.
I've never ignored maintenance on a vehicle since then, it taught me an important lesson. I had to spend every dollar I had worked so hard to earn on buying the vehicle and the freedom it gave me was priceless, then I had to spend everything I worked hard for to fix it in order to regain that freedom (and not ride the bus to school like a loser).
It taught me an important lesson and this is where you should be with your son right now.
Posted on 1/28/22 at 5:26 pm to Blutarsky
You shouldn’t have given him a Chevy then
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