New Car
Joys faithful Isuzu Rodeo died.
Well it didn’t die as much needed a makeover. We had been having problems with the radiator guzzling fluid, it was coming out of the overflow bottle due to a blockage somewhere (pressure test found nothing and block test on the engine found nothing)… So we put it in to have Merchants check it out. Well I never!
It needed four new tires, we’d done the CV boot and damaged the axle, radiator to be flushed and hoses changed, pressure test + block test.
It was going to cost us over $1,200 to fix (and we had paid out $500 the previous week on the rear bearing). Its only worth $1500!!
So we found ourselves at the Saturn dealership that was doing zero percent finance on 2007 models.
They gave us $1700 for the rodeo (whoo!!) and we got a new car for less than we would have got for a second hand car.
The downside is it is a 5 speed manual transmission on a 2.2 liter engine.
Joy cant drive a manual transmission.
So last night we found ourselves in the church parking lot with me trying to instruct joy in her first lesson which was ok. We learned joy cant keep the revs constant (she pulses the accelerator). Once we learn how to keep the revs constant we will be ok, We did a couple of smooth starts and we stalled a couple of times, which is ok.
In the meantime I am driving it to work.