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Old 02-11-2014, 09:01 PM
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Damn giodog2000, you've got more active threads going than anybody I've ever seen...lol!! Which we all know can't be a good thing, I see you're up north, must be that cold polar vortex weather. Well, like you said in your other thread, it may be time to get rid of it, the cash register will just keep a ringing.
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Old 02-11-2014, 09:09 PM
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Damn giodog2000, you've got more active threads going than anybody I've ever seen...lol!! Which we all know can't be a good thing, I see you're up north, must be that cold polar vortex weather. Well, like you said in your other thread, it may be time to get rid of it, the cash register will just keep a ringing.
If you ask me tonight , I'm ready to sell. After spending all day fixing it and happy about it , it's just a major blow at moral to have another problem pop up not even 30sec into the road test. Very disappointed I must say. But, if you ask me tomorrow morning after the ride to work , I'd tell you I want to keep it. In the other thread "It'll end when I sell it" , this is just what that thread is about. It never was about the money (not happy about it but I can live with that) it's the constant deceptions and loosing the trust of this beautiful car. Tonight, I just can't see how, even though I'm on top of my game for maintenance, it's gonna stop and it's giving me no sign that it will stop.
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Old 02-11-2014, 09:30 PM
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It never was about the money (not happy about it but I can live with that) it's the constant deceptions and loosing the trust of this beautiful car. Tonight, I just can't see how, even though I'm on top of my game for maintenance, it's gonna stop and it's giving me no sign that it will stop.
This reminds me of a short story a friend of mine wrote. It was about the love of his young life with whom he'd parted ways after college. She was a hawt, private school girl from a stable family with plenty of money. They partied very, very hard together and then they lost touch. Until he got a call from her about 20 years later.

He jumped at the chance to meet up with her after 2 failed marriages. He'd never loved anyone like her. She picked a fast food place in a border line part of town. He saw her and recognized her instantly even though years of hard core substance and physical abuse had taken toll.

They reminisced. Laughed. Cried. He offered to take her away. She refused knowing her addiction would never hold no matter how much he loved her. He drove her back to a cheap motel where she lived trick to trick. As they hugged and he felt the bones flex just beneath her ragged skin, he said he couldn't help thinking about a life for the two of them. How he could just whisk her away right then and all would be great again. But she instead disappeared in a dark door behind a dark man who'd let her in.

He told me that story and I thought, Wow. That's kinda like owning a BMW for about 20 years.
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Old 02-11-2014, 09:36 PM
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This reminds me of a short story a friend of mine wrote. It was about the love of his young life with whom he'd parted ways after college. She was a hawt, private school girl from a stable family with plenty of money. They partied very, very hard together and then they lost touch. Until he got a call from her about 20 years later.

He jumped at the chance to meet up with her after 2 failed marriages. He'd never loved anyone like her. She picked a fast food place in a border line part of town. He saw her and recognized her instantly even though years of hard core substance and physical abuse had taken toll.

They reminisced. Laughed. Cried. He offered to take her away. She refused knowing her addiction would never hold no matter how much he loved her. He drove her back to a cheap motel where she lived trick to trick. As they hugged and he felt the bones flex just beneath her ragged skin, he said he couldn't help thinking about a life for the two of them. How he could just whisk her away right then and all would be great again. But she instead disappeared in a dark door behind a dark man who'd let her in.

He told me that story and I thought, Wow. That's kinda like owning a BMW for about 20 years.

Great story.
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Old 02-11-2014, 10:26 PM
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If you ask me tonight , I'm ready to sell. After spending all day fixing it and happy about it , it's just a major blow at moral to have another problem pop up not even 30sec into the road test. Very disappointed I must say. But, if you ask me tomorrow morning after the ride to work , I'd tell you I want to keep it. In the other thread "It'll end when I sell it" , this is just what that thread is about. It never was about the money (not happy about it but I can live with that) it's the constant deceptions and loosing the trust of this beautiful car. Tonight, I just can't see how, even though I'm on top of my game for maintenance, it's gonna stop and it's giving me no sign that it will stop.
It's just a heated steering wheel, not a deal breaker in my book. If it was the trans or transfer case or the engine yeah time to dump it.

Get a couple of these, and place them inside your driving gloves.
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It's just a heated steering wheel, not a deal breaker in my book. If it was the trans or transfer case or the engine yeah time to dump it.

Get a couple of these, and place them inside your driving gloves.
lol on the hand warmer!!!

It probably will not be a deal breaker. It's just that every single little light, button , function, etc works in my X and I like to keep it that way ( I'm obsessed with broken things ) .... Another learning DIY , at least this one will be in the warm comfort of my heated seat which btw works lol
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my heated seat which btw works lol

You just jinxed yourself again.


20 bucks says your heated seat doesn't work tomorrow.
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