Fix it, or drive it till it dies?

Lariavasiel
Mon, 07 Sep 2009 07:40:51 +0000
Maintenance/Repairs

I drive a 1990 subaru loyale wagon. I bought two of them for 500 bucks fixed them both up, and sold the manual transmission version for 1495. After Licence and Registration, repair bills and new tires the thing cost me about 15 bucks. that was 18000 miles ago. I now need new tires, a transmission flush (although I wonder if it’s the sludge holding it together), there’s air in the brake lines, holes in the muffler, a funny smell when you turn on the AC (which doesn’t work), rust eating through the dents leftover from college pranks, If brave the highway in it it shakes pretty bad over 50 mph, it doesn’t always accelerate immediately on demand so I drive like a paranoid 80 year old woman, it pulls to the right, leaks oil, the coolant boils and gurgles when I turn it off, it smokes, steams, and vents exhaust into the cabin if driven longer than 10 minutes, and when the kids down the street took a can of red spray paint to it it was an improvement. My father has been pulled aside by my mechanic and politely told that the pan of brownies was no longer sufficient incentive to work on “that unholy abomination” and to take it outside and shoot it.

To my question then, what if anything, do I fix, who do I ask and how much do I spend?

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