I grew up driving junkers that cost more in repairs than the few hundred that you got them for. I’m really glad it went to a teenager puttering around Portland. I do hope the stick shift training goes well.
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Obby always says he isn’t handy and then is suddenly very handy. He says the car would need a new coil gasket and a thorough cleaning of the spark plug hole, but for $600 we just informed the buyer of what needed to be done.
Obby did 24 hours of lemons years ago. At one point their race car was spewing so much smoke that the organizers made the driver pull over, put on tie dye t-shirt, and plant a tree before being let back on the track.
It makes a certain amount of cents (sp intentional).
It works fine. I took it to Seattle for Emerald City Comic Con this year. Drove it through a storm in Seattle traffic. I just don’t want it scrapped. Also, this is my TARDIS baby. I’ve helped friends move in this car. Taught people how to drive stick shift. Taken aaaaallll the parking spots no one else could fit in. Loaded her down and drove from Atlanta to Chicago. (got super confused about the time change even though I didn’t go east) Drove a baby home from the hospital (drove myself to the hospital) and used the clutch as a make shift baby rocker. God damn, if we could fit four cars in our driveway, I might have tried to keep her to teach Liz how to drive stick shift.
I haven’t actually painted it yet. Still waiting on the license plates to came in. For some reason, still having the dealer plates on it feels like it’s not mine yet.
We went on a road trip that usually cost $30 in gas and it took $7 of charge. So yeah, I’m still paying for power, but it’s a fraction of what gas is and will be. The crazy thing is that I can sit between the car seats. The whole reason for the outback was to fit a grownup and two car seats in the back. The scion couldn’t fit a grownup in the FRONT seat with a rear facing car seat in the back. There is now cobwebs on the wheels of the outback.
They definitely could have come down on price, but the odds of finding another certified-used bolt near that price with a good battery before the Oregon rebate window ended were slim.
Sometimes, in programming, you will tell someone about a problem that you’re trying to solve. Sometimes you just have to tell a rubber duck. And in the telling, you figure out how to fix the problem. So I was the duck. Quack Quack.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging
Obby had work on his poker face with car dealers because apparently most dealerships didn’t know or care which bolts had limited batteries, and priced them all the same. Surely they were a little suspicious on why he was ignoring every other identical bolt on the lot.
There was one dealer in town that did know the difference and the price was higher.
