About a month ago, Holly and I went to Windsor to party with her family, as well as pick up the car we bought from her grandmother. As soon as we got in the car we noticed something was wrong with the tires. The car was shaking tremendously at low speeds, but seemed to get smoother the faster we traveled. On the drive home the rear passenger side tire blew and Holly’s dad was forced to put the doughnut on (Holly’s parents drove the new car home, while we drove home in her work vehicle). Although the car drove a lot smoother with the doughnut on, it was now only capable of a top speed of 80km/h.
A few days after we got the car home I managed to locate a full set of used tires in Fort Erie. Two hours and two-hundred fifty dollars later, the car drives like a dream. Although it’s fourteen years old, there is less than 100 000km on it! That’s the ideal used vehicle – one bought by a 75 year old women who only uses it for groceries and church. The inside of the trunk looks like it came off the factory floor yesterday. The back seat looks like it’s been sat in maybe twice. There is zero rust that I can see. The only things in rough shape are a few of the interior trims; broken trunk release (neither the car or key-chain buttons do anything); multiple scratches all over the front driver side; and apparently the brake lines.
Holly’s grandmother was kind enough to get the emissions test done for us, so all we had to do was get it certified. Holly took it with her to work yesterday and dropped it off. It passed, but there were a few concerns from the mechanic. As mentioned above, the brake lines are in rough shape and so they will have to be replaced (preferably soon). So far I’ve used the car once for something that wasn’t the car itself. That was helping the Dude move some desks the other day.
I’m glad we got it – it was a deal!, but so far it’s just a driveway decoration. One day soon however, you might be seeing a cobra in your rear-view mirror, and I tend to imagine mimicking this video when behind the wheel. Watch out…
