#Car stuff

[hockpock]

Releasing this to people whose states Do require 2 license plates:

Front plate frame says Fullmetal Alchemist

Back plate frame says Fullmetal Alchemist

[thedandeliondyke]

You may have had hot car sex with another lesbian but have you have hot car sex so good you nearly SHATTER HER GODDAMN WINDSHEILD. Kinda wanna turn it into a table if she gets it replaced.

[wowbright]

Today was soooo stressful.

There were also moments of non stress.

Went birding with my old people. My friend X is one of the first people I met when I moved out here and spouse refers to him as "yo boy," a recognition of high friendship status in our household. Probably the most outgoing and friendly among the birding crowd around here. He's in his 80s now and started having in the past few years what the doctors diagnosed as seizures. He's on anti-seizure meds and he's losing sight in one of his eyes. He says his memory (mostly in the recall of facts) isn't what it used to be. He wonders if he's getting dementia but that hasn't been diagnosed and I kind of think (not a medical diagnosis) it's more likely to be depression. He's been pretty glum lately, really is not adapting well to the changes in his body and feels very limited by them, it doesn't feel like he can engage in most of his hobbies anymore. He can't drive anymore either because of his vision, his wife taxes him most places. He mostly goes birding for the social aspect, though he does seem to enjoy the easy finds like the larger water birds. (His vision issues make looking through binoculars hit or miss and he has given up on wearing his hearing aids when birding.) He said he recently went into the doctors for a rash, took one of those wellness surveys during the intake, and the first thing the doctor wanted to talk about was not about the rash but whether or not he had any guns in his house. (He doesn't.) He tells me he's not suicidal and doesn't have a suicide plan, but over the past few months he's expressed more than once that maybe he would be okay with dying already. I listen, and then he tells me a terrible birding joke.

He does get excited over the number of songbirds and ducks we see today. I am pretty happy with our sightings too. Canvasbacks!

I run some errands and on the way back in a 40 mile an hour zone with nowhere to pull off, my car starts acting wild. First thing I notice is that the defroster stops working. Then the radio cuts out. That I noticed that the brake light is on, even though the emergency brake is definitely not engaged (I check). I have forgotten where the switch for the hazard light is. The hand on the speedometer is waving wildly between 0 and 40 mph, even though I'm going at a steady speed. I find the hazard light switch, hit it, but nothing happens. I reach an intersection and turn onto a smaller road, but the power steering isn't working so it's a bit of a task, especially when the steering wheel momentarily freezes up completely in the middle of the turn. The car is moving but there's definitely some miscommunications going on between the gas pedal and the engine. I am on a less busy (but still busy) street, my goal is to get down far enough so that somebody turning right around the corner doesn't just hit my car, park in the right lane (there are two lanes in each direction) and turn on the hazards. BUT WAIT THE HAZARDS AREN'T WORKING. So I just keep going and hope I can pull into the next side street. I reach a side street, pull sideways into it. The side street goes uphill and the car does not have enough power to make a complete right turn or to go up that hill, so basically I am parked across one of the lanes. Fortunately it is a dead end street into a shishi residential neighborhood, and it's the middle of the day, so no one is trying to go in or out of it. Call my spouse who doesn't answer, call again, no answer, police officer stops and wants to help push the car to a safer place but that's a no-go. She also mentions that I probably should not sit in the car in case it gets sideswiped. (Oh yeah whoops.) Tow truck shows up after about 10 minutes, and it turns out that this really was a good street to pull into, because I only see one vehicle going in or out the entire time I'm waiting, and it has no issues going around my car.

Well, survived that! The car is back at the apartment along with the groceries that were in the trunk, but it's not going to run until we get it towed *again* to the repair place.

If only the alternator (we're assuming that's the problem) had waited two more months to crap out, because we'll be living in the city by then and could feasibly just not have a car at all. That won't work in the meantime though. Sigh.

[batbitestoys]

DG window peeker stickers are here! I just have a few for now, but if y'all like them I'll order more!

These are roughly 6.5" by 5.5" inches and printed on clear glossy vinyl 💕

[darkwood-sleddog]

The new ride!!

[korracrat]

Hey so I need an adultier adult,

Almost a year ago I got a new car (the gay one) and suddenly I am panicking because I am unsure if the car I am making payments on is actually financed or leased (I swore I saw something on my cars app about a lease but the fucker isn't there anymore). I want it to be financed but can't figure out how to figure that out with the current documents I have. I don't have the contract on me and can't find it.

So I ask y'all because I can't find the answers online: for the past few months I have been receiving letters saying "oh I can get you a better interest rate blah blah blah"....would I still be getting those if I had a leased vehicle? Also my statement says "loan term" would that be like how long my lease would be or is that a signal it's financed? I also see a "you have x amount of payments to have fully paid off your vehicle". Would that still show up for a lease?

Thanks,

Someone who has never bought a new car before and really wants to keep this one after payments are done

[nabsthevulture]

One downside to liking an "obscure" model of vehicle, especially one that's older than 10 years, is that you can't find parts for shit and when you do theyre like $$$

[madanimalscientist]

So the Alleged Yaris has finally bit the dust....

I've made appts to go to some used car dealerships on Monday in hopes of finding an affordable used car that will actually be reliable.

The mechanics only charged me an hour of labour to look at the Alleged Yaris this time, they're still baffled as to wtf exactly is going wrong with it other than "possibly possessed" and "maybe it was built the Monday after a 3 day weekend" and "Toyotas usually aren't this fucking weird". Next time I bake cookies or something I'll bring a tray by, they're great dudes and have done me a solid. But I'll see if it has trade in value for its parts at least, and hopefully I can come home with a nice used Corolla or something.

At least I was able to sort out a loan with decent rates but yeeesh car stuff is so stressful. I did outsource some of it to my parents, my dad is a total gearhead so I was like "What are the top 3-5 cars in the "small affordable sedan" category that are good re reliability and safety" and Dad (recently retired civil engineer) loves having an excuse to watch car videos on YouTube all week so I have a shortlist of options, and he got to do something he finds fun while also helping out his kid so win-win there.

Wish me luck re the whole negotiation process! Car buying is AAAAAAA but hopefully I can get it all sorted Monday and then have a car that is reliable and boring and practical!

[excelsior9173]

car stuff is so stupid

it should not cost me almost the same amount of money to replace my key fob as the windshield?

i have given up on having power locks ever again with this car now. manual key entry it is! maybe if all it needed was reprogramming i could save up $90 for that. but what if that’s not the issue? if i have to replace the whole damn thing they’re gonna charge me at minimum $350. it’s fucked. it’s a key with a watch battery that unlocks my doors. it should not cost hundreds of dollars

[doppleganger-rental]

Manifold vacuum connector

[pastamic]

Help Two Queer Disabled People Keep Their Car

GoFundMe

Hi!

I try not to post stuff like this here bc I keep this blog for fandom, though I always try to reblog others posts of this nature. My health has been worse in recent months and I've been missing work a lot more bc of my seizures coming back, and of my dysautonomia getting worse. We got a call from our car company saying that they've sent our account to collections and that because of late fees and missing this months payment, we owe about $2k to them and they want $635 by the 23rd or they're going to repossess the car. We use the car to get me to work and get me to my appointments. My dysautonomia makes it so I pass out when I stand up so the bus isn't a particularly safe option so even if you can't donate please share this around as much as you can. We didn't even get a call until about two days ago and I don't get paid until the 27th so we're kind of scrambling to figure out what to do.

[beatnik-baby]

here's a photo of me fixing my car b4 that fucking cop wrecked it

[headlight-district]

Spin those tires and light the fires! The weekend is almost here!

[sp00ky-p00ky]

Heat in my car fixed ✅️ yay!

Also had to replace a control arm and get an alignment ✅️ not so yay but it's ok

[prithvirajkdz]

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[darkwood-sleddog]

well. we are getting a new car. and i'm not complaining bc it is my dream subaru pretty much.