I hate Used Car Salesmen.
July 15th, 2010Okay, so I just bought another van, because a rather unfortunate and painful accident claimed the last one, and the thing ran perfectly fine for a while, just had a little squeak from the accessory belt that actually shut up for the most part.
But NOW the thing’s A/C compressor drive belt snapped. (Apparently this is called a V-belt or something like that…) So I have no A/C. And it’s summer.
If that weren’t bad enough, now it’s making an odd clicking noise (Apparently the cushion(s) on the lifter(s) are messed up…) and the engine sputters and spews black smoke out the back end of the car. And I say the back of the car because it doesn’t appear to only be coming from the tail pipe… more the entire undercarriage and the tail pipe… so I can only assume something is (at the very least) fucked up with the exhaust system.
The guy I bought this van from was such a shiester… he was so full of shit… so I can’t help but blame this on him at least partially… because he probably had someone rig something that was about to fail so it’d work a little bit longer while he sold it.
I also blame this on WalMart. Yes, WalMart. On my way to California, I noticed the oil was a bit low, and hadn’t been changed in who knows how long… so I had the WalMart Service Center (because they were the only place open for 100 miles…) change the oil. Well apparently 500 miles later on my trip, I discovered they didn’t put in enough oil… about 3 quarts were put in probably… and the engine holds like 5 I think… So the engine was probably rather displeased with this. I know I would be if I was an engine. Actually, I’m still displeased with it because I own said engine that is now messed up, and will probably require an expensive repair.