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Annika
True Blue Farmgirl
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Annika
USA
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Firemama
True Blue Farmgirl
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Amanda
Medical Lake
WA
USA
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Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
22941 Posts
Alee
Worland
Wy
USA
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 Posted - Feb 07 2008 : 4:25:20 PM
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Oh No, Annika! That's no good. Try www.palouseads.com or call Potlatch Auto Salvage. Sometimes they have cars that work. Sometimes WSU has car auctions and the sheriff does car auctions as well sometimes. I hope you get it figured out soon! *hugs*
Alee
Farmgirl Sister #8
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BarefootGoatGirl
True Blue Farmgirl
1495 Posts
Corrine
North Carolina
USA
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Posted - Feb 07 2008 : 4:28:54 PM
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good luck, annika. car trouble always finds us when we can least afford it...blah!
What we write today slipped into our souls some other day when we were alone and doing nothing.
-Brenda Ueland
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Amie C.
True Blue Farmgirl
2099 Posts
Finger Lakes Region
NY
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Posted - Feb 08 2008 : 08:47:08 AM
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| Annika, we should sit down for a virtual cry together. My husband's 1989 volvo suddenly needs the whole rack replaced, including new ball joints, tie rod ends, and top it off with an alignment at the end. Cars are so frustrating. One day, everything's fine. The next, they might as well be lawn sculpture. |
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KYgurlsrbest
True Blue Farmgirl
4853 Posts
Jonni
Elsmere
Kentucky
USA
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Posted - Feb 08 2008 : 08:48:53 AM
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No, they don't ever happen at a good time, do they? We went through this back in the autumn, almost 2 weeks apart. Sooooo frustrating before the holiday and just in general. Hoping for the best for the Suburu. Good gas mileage!!!
Farmgirl Sister #80, thanks to a very special farmgirl from the Bluegrass..."She was built like a watch, a study in balance ... with a neck and head so refined, like a drawing by DaVinci"...
NY Newsday sportswriter Bill Nack describing filly, Ruffian.
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downbranchroad
True Blue Farmgirl
374 Posts
Joy
Southern
KY
USA
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Posted - Feb 08 2008 : 10:45:18 AM
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Amen Sister, no time is a good time for car troubles. I have prayed for the last 4 yrs... Lord, please let this old car last until Sissy gets through school. Well she finished Jan. 22 and it has done been in the shop...guess, I should have really thought about what I was praying for. ha.
Appalachian Girl
Jem
*If you always do what you have always done, you will always get what you have always got.
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Amie C.
True Blue Farmgirl
2099 Posts
Finger Lakes Region
NY
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Posted - Feb 08 2008 : 11:04:09 AM
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The really frustrating thing about head gaskets is that they are such a little nonentity of a part in themselves. But you have to take the whole engine apart to get to them.
I don't know about Subarus, but I've had several friends who have gotten the head gasket fixed on minivans and the van never seems to last more than a year or two beyond that. It's not that the head gasket is connected to other things, it's just that the car is reaching the end of its lifespan at the point when the head gasket goes. On the other hand, I've had 30 year old Chryslers that had to be retired finally due to rust and the head gasket had never been replaced.
If you trust your mechanic, he/she might be able to tell you whether your car is still worth fixing up. |
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Carol Sue
True Blue Farmgirl
4033 Posts
Carol Sue
Washingtonian
USA
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Posted - Feb 08 2008 : 1:37:18 PM
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Annika,
just sighing with you.....
praying for an unexpected answer for you.
CS
listening to the quiet moments
Farmgirl #39
www.Quitemoments.blogspot.com |
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Car problems stink
