HAVING THE WORST LUCK!!

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Jul 2, 2015 | 07:27 PM

lawdawg79

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HAVING THE WORST LUCK!!

So lets see how quick I can make this..... I received a lump of money a month ago, I decided to pay off my corvette as I planned to sell it, having title in hand makes that sale easier. So paid off the vette the 9th of June.

Days later after money gone, torque converter in my F250 SD starts going out...cant fix without money from vette sale

Headlight flip up motor in vette goes out, fixed it.

Front brake calipers on F250 begin locking up, no money to fix

Windshield wiper motor in vette goes out, money saving for calipers for truck go to wiper motor. so wiper motor fixed.

have guys come over to look at vette...very interested....vette wont start, Solenoid on starter went out.... money for calipers again goes into vette...

Had to buy a low profile jack and some tools just to get the damn starter out today, while limping, and I mean limping my poor torque converter failing caliper seizing truck to harbor freight just a few miles away, my blower motor for the A/C in my truck quit working..

Vette is fixed, truck still down.........
and to top it all off, I STILL have not received the title for the vette yet
Happy 4th everyone, im drinking the next 3 days.

Jul 3, 2015 | 08:10 AM

fordman19762003

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I know how you feel, it seems like everytime I think about selling a vehicle something goes wrong with it. It's like the car can sense you want to get rid of it and decides to make things tough for you.

Jul 3, 2015 | 10:36 AM

RumpityRump

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I'll trade you problems in a heartbeat...... You have not met my f#*king mother in law!!!! Man-O-man.... would I trade you in a heartbeat.....lol!

Jul 3, 2015 | 10:45 AM

northwindone

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Originally Posted by fordman19762003

Isn't that the truth. When I went to sell my extremely reliable Nissan pickup the vapor canister decided to fail and send charcoal down the lines almost all the way to the throttle body. I had to get if fixed thanks to SMOG checks in California when you sell a vehicle. One of the solenoids stopped it from getting that far. I had to buy a new vapor canister ($$$), blow the charcoal out of the plugged line, and replace an impossible to find vacuum solenoid that broke while pulling the vapor canister out. Finally got it fixed and one of the emission monitors wouldn't set go so it failed the smog even though the emissions were perfect. Had to drive it around the valley for almost 100 miles basically illegally to get to to set go so it would pass smog the next day.

I had another car that gave me 70k miles of 100% reliability the 5 years I owned it. The day I decided to sell it the water pump started leaking. I could go on, but I have a feeling many of us have gone through the exact thing you are going through.

Jul 3, 2015 | 12:01 PM

lawdawg79

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yep ive had 0 problems w the car, then whammo

i dont know what my trucks problem is..... but ya double whammy...car for sale keeps breaking and my DD truck breaks too....

Jul 10, 2015 | 11:38 AM

lawdawg79

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frustration rising again..... a month ago I put my car up for sale and was getting 2-3 calls a day, I took it down cuz I was tired of showing it not having my title in hand.....everyone kept saying, call me when you get the title......now a month later I have the title in hand and relist the car......friggin crickets, ive had 2 calls in a week......so annoyed..... and its a sharp car too