Little things give me away; she’s dirty, for one. Plus I procrastinate ordering the electric antenna, and she lumps around town with the broken one precariously tucked into the top of the trunk space. Embarrassing.
The big clue was driving up to the smart center and watching, with sad, Subie eyes, as I eagerly trotted off in a smart red passion cab. Just as I gave her a backward glance, she looked down, but completely ignoring my guilt, I drove away and fell in love.
And I am guilty. The sunroof has to be bonked down into retract position, her headlight assemblies have cataracts, she’s starting to nip the oil (if you know what I mean,) her ample bumpers are all scratched up, and her front glasses are cracked.
I know, yes, I’ve been a bad friend, and I’ll take her for a scrub and rub, get the stereo going again, and hopefully find someone who can sew up the L-shape tear in her leather back seat. In my defense, I really did try to get the roof fixed; local body shop was not helpful…
Of course, Tim would have had her in perfect condition. He could fix anything. Wheelman, they called him. One carburetor job he asked for a little cotter pin, a Jesus clip, and when I asked why they called it that, he said, reaching around something, “When you… just…about…have...it…(pfinnggg - plink,) Jesus!” Jesus clips.
That brown-eyed handsome man worked all his short life under hoods, and never left a shop with dirty fingernails.
Anyway, I’m not springing for new headlight assemblies. 200,000 miles; I’m drawing a line in the pavement.
She’ll always be one of the great rides, but it’s time for my ~new~ smart car.
Orphan, come to Mama.
Last edited by CruzinSusan; 02-12-2008 at 12:31 AM.
LOL......right....I think my Neon is getting suspicious, too. No bath since the fall. In need of detailing.She's got a lot of little things wrong and the "Check engine light has been lit for 4 months. hehehe It's just a smog sensor and I don't care to spend $200 to get a warning light turned off.
Only three months after obtaining our smart in April 2006, we had a tragedy in our car family. Our 1982 Diesel Rabbit, 220,000 miles (not including a five year period of a broken odometer), and defying death on at least four occasions in the past ten years, committed suicide one fateful morning. While driving her to work at 5am in mid July during a rainstorm, her windshield wipers ceased to work. A concrete median (curb type) appeared out of no-where and scraped her elderly lower structure from her loyal servant's body. Had to be suicide. Had to have broken her heart to witness the family's love for the new smart. In our minds, her spirit lives in our new smart. We miss you, but will always remember you, our little diesel bunny.
Ron Gaus, asmartcar.com
LOL......right....I think my Neon is getting suspicious, too. No bath since the fall. In need of detailing.She's got a lot of little things wrong and the "Check engine light has been lit for 4 months. hehehe It's just a smog sensor and I don't care to spend $200 to get a warning light turned off.
SmartBob, whooboy, do I know that smogsensor song...but it may not be that little part. (Which, if you clean it up, you will probably find it's working just fine...) With my Subie, it turns out that if you replace your sparking plugs with the original (in her case, the expensive platinum kind,) the check-engine light behaves perfectly. Don't know why. Can't even remember how my (electrical engineer Dad, retired) figured it out, but, true enough.
He got a little tester, ProScan, I think, plugs into the car's computer thingie and hooks it up to an old laptop set up on the stool in the garage, and has a ball with the program. Screen after screen of info - keeps him busy for hours. Maybe that's how he happened upon the solution?
Anyhoo, you might try the new plugs thing...<hopeful grin>
Last edited by CruzinSusan; 02-12-2008 at 10:08 AM.
Only three months after obtaining our smart in April 2006, we had a tragedy in our car family. Our 1982 Diesel Rabbit, 220,000 miles (not including a five year period of a broken odometer), and defying death on at least four occasions in the past ten years, committed suicide one fateful morning. While driving her to work at 5am in mid July during a rainstorm, her windshield wipers ceased to work. A concrete median (curb type) appeared out of no-where and scraped her elderly lower structure from her loyal servant's body. Had to be suicide. Had to have broken her heart to witness the family's love for the new smart. In our minds, her spirit lives in our new smart. We miss you, but will always remember you, our little diesel bunny.
Ron Gaus, asmartcar.com
Oh, Ron, condolences to your family...poor, sad little bunny, so senseless, her demise.
well, I certainly hope the smartie and our two other cars get along fine as we plan on keeping the 3 of them a long, long time!
Come to think of it, they should as they all have a common vein of existence: newly introduced models with long factory waits! (you think I would have learned by now! )
Well, I thought my Ridgeline was going to have a problem when we first saw and test drove the Smart. But it was quite strange when I looked back at my Ridgeline as I left the dealer for my test drive, it looked as though it had this HUGE smiling grill, like yea...now I can take a rest and let this little thing called a car get knocked around. I truly think that my Ridgeline busted out laughing... Um...makes my wonder about this truck
We traded my Yukon XL when my husband bought his new truck. Knowing that my smart was going to be here "any day" I agreed to drive my daughter's car (Chevy Cobalt) while she is at school. Our parting was not sad for either of us. We never did get along. She was a gas guzzler and a road hog, not my type really. I'm sure she is with someone who appreciates her and I will soon have a compatible driving companion. Oh joy.
My truck is getting very jealous these days. I've only driven him a few days since I got the smart. It's dirty inside and out awaiting me to take him for a car wash. My smart, on the other hand, is parked next to my truck all smiling and grinning as she's getting pampered with extra TLC. She hates going to the car wash so everything is done by hand.
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