Check it peoples. Soon after I got back from camp my 2004 Pontiac Sunfire hit 100,000K and I put every last mile on it myself (yes that’s dust on the steering column ignore it). I’m proud and horrified all at the same time because it is only a matter of time when the car will go kaput and I will have to start shelling out for another car payment. Here’s hoping this happens none too soon though.

I have already sunk in quite a bit of money repairing stuff on it since I only got a 30K warranty on it. At least I got some of my money’s worth before the 30K hit. They learned what to fix from when I had my first Sunfire – yep this ones my second one. The reason being around 20K the car would cut off as I was driving it. Dead. Let me tell you the power steering does not work when the cars off. So that was a computer issue they fixed immediately when it happened again on this car. I’ve had about 5 horn replacements and need to get it fixed again as a matter of fact. There was an A/C blower motor replacement and something else too but for the life of me I can’t remember what it is now it has been so long ago.

Now what I have paid for since the warranty has been a master clutch replacement, which by the way, costs fricken huge! I was so used to just replacing the cable when the clutch goes out but these new cars now do not have that and they have to literally take the engine out to repair it. So $1000 later I’m back in business. Then I paid close to $800 to replace the dashboard console because the only thing I knew was that the car was not overheating *snort* Makes for an interesting conversation when the cops pull you over for speeding, which I am prone to do anyways. The conversation goes something like this. Cop: Do you know why I pulled you over? Me: Speeding. Cop: Do you know how fast you were going? Me: Haven’t a clue! Now you can take that one to the bank and put me under a lie detector because it was true lol Now I have no excuse on how fast I’m going because I can see it. Next weeks repairs will be the drivers side power window button. It has no issues going down but takes F O R E V E R going up and I could sit there for well over 15 minutes trying to get the window up. Got an estimate already and they think it is just the relay switch which is probably right and that will cost me close to $200. Then to repair the horn is about $100 which will wait until I get paid next in August. Then I can go back to blaring the horn at the asinine drivers around here. You have no idea how much I use my horn.

Beyond that I still have to figure out why my reverse lights do not work because the fuse is fine as well as the bulbs themselves. There is a short somewhere. Gonna take that to my trusty mechanic friend to find as all the other repairs I’m letting GM fix. Oh, another thing I found out too since I hit 100k was that I was going to get my timing belt replaced because that is when you are supposed to do it. Surprise! you have a timing CHAIN. Umm, okay? Anybody know when you replace one of those suckers because the auto parts store dude was clueless.

And without further ado – My own version of Bumblebee

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