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destroy · #18 03-11-2014, 02:04 AM

Tenacity is right! I probably would have given up without how calm y'all are. I had pretty much had it with the car. My parents were trying to convince me I should be car shopping for Japanese 4x4's...

Just had to have a rest and calm down, come at it again on a better day when I was feeling a little better about it. Tenacity is definitely it. I feel like I can't give up on this stuff as I'm trying to get into school in the fall and start an apprenticeship as a heavy duty mechanic. Sadly I'm definitely tiring of fixing all the stuff on this old car. I drive it hard, which doesn't help with all the things that go wrong with it. At this point I'd just like something that's already in great shape and won't be constantly needing to have something to be fixed because it's older than I am and is constantly decaying and suffering age-related issues. I just need something I can do regular maintenance on for a while, as I won't be able to afford to live somewhere with room to do wrenching. I've got the cash, and I'd really like something newer, and the CDI fits everything I want to a tee... just gotta find the right one, now. Looking for this to end.

This car stuff is killing me! I haven't been snowboarding in almost a month... my one joy in life! I've missed so many good snow days in Whistler because of this, I'm in serious withdrawl and I can feel the happy-chemicals in my brain slowly diminishing...

As for junk yards... easier said that done. There's hardly anything here with Benz stuff. I feel like maybe I just don't know the right people, but it seems like there's not much around here, and most of the time you're dealing with somebody who's got terrible English and questionable ethics...