kablooey

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Shop called.
Our little rust bucket is probably a goner: to fix everything on it that needs fixing would cost twice what we bought it for. We could get it limping along for a couple hundred, but that would mean limping into a minnesota winter and only delaying the inevitable- plus the things that are wrong could be really dangerous if they broke on the highway again. I'm leaning towards junking it but wanna talk to S4 first before I tell the shop what they ought do with it. I'm not horribly upset- we definitely got out of it what we put into it, but still- dang.

...anyone selling a car?

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what year/make is the current car, what's wrong with it, and how much did you pay for it?

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Current car is an '88? Honda Accord. On the freeeway the tie rod and ball joint of the right rear wheel got fux0red. At the time, we also knew it had a leaky radiator that we'd wanted to get looked at. Turns out yes, not only is the radiator leaking, but the water pump as well, so they'd both need work, or to be replaced. The dangerous part is that the front ball joints and tie-rods are in a similar state as the one that went screwy in the back - read: could go any time. And having what happened in the rear is way scarier in the front 'cause that's where the steering is.

We paid $800 for the car last year. To fix everything, they want ~$1500. I do really trust this shop- they've always done right by my family, specialize in older cars and do stuff like find used parts and tell you "this needs to be fixed now, this needs to be fixed soon, this you can let go for a while" etc.