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I bought a new car! What are your car stories? (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 days ago by Suck_on_my_Presence@lemmy.world to c/casualconversation@piefed.social

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I've been driving the first car I ever bought for almost 15 years now. I love love love that car, but it's time for an upgrade, so yippee!

Before it gets asked and I forget to reply, Mazda 2 -> hybrid Honda Civic hatchback

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[–] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I used to have a Jeep Liberty. It was an '06 and lasted me until '20 when I replaced it with something not made by Stellantis.

Anyway, that car had a history of stuff breaking. I did a vast majority of the fixes myself, including random sensors here and there, the heater core, and even the head gasket (what a pain).

I had to drive that car 3/4 across the country for work (with no cruise control), and knew I'd be keeping that car there for 6 months or so. Knowing something would probably break, I loaded most of my tools in the back while I was packing.

Sure enough, about 3 days before I was supposed to drive it 24 hours back home, the water pump failed. I had a little bit of advance notice, but it took me a couple of days to diagnose what the noise was.

I changed the water pump in the driveway of the house I was staying at, and had all of the tools I needed. It was both glorious and sucky at the same time.