Theopolis Q. Hossenffer
Every Nation Needs a God-Emperor!
Reading you guys gives me hope for the automotive futureš
I'm done wrenching too. A simple bolt on piece of chrome, or wipers/battery, sure. But it's not even worth it to change your own oil anymore, and half the time you need a special tool for something. I ran into that with my wife's brakes. A Honda Accord requires a special tool to compress the piston back into the caliper, you can't use a big c-clamp, or vise grips. It's a screw design, that requires a free to borrow tool from Autozone, but if you don't know that before you're in the middle of it, and covered in grease, it kinda sucks. It's just easier to pay the labor charges and sit in the waiting room using their free wifi.I have reached the point where combining old age and complications that I am not working on anything newer than my wife's 2012 Kia. MY 2016 Traverse is just too complicated and the tools needed aren't worth it to me.
The saga continues of rich folks with more money than sense.https://autos.yahoo.com/wayne-world-amc-pacer-being-211500776.html
2 words I NEVER thought I would see in the same sentence.....AMC Pacer, and $71,000
Thank you.Yeah, I saw those .. "newer" T/As, too. For those that are curious:
https://transamworldwide.com/for-sale/
In 1995 we needed a replacement for the 1983 Chevy G-30 van we had had for several years. Almost 200,000 miles on it and it was wearing out. I decided we needed a family car(you know, 4 door, Air, comfortable cruiser) so I began searching. this was pre internet so going and looking was the only choice. I found a nice looking car(the aforementioned Eagle Premier) and it met the bill. Relatively low miles(43,000 or so) and seemed good. I called around and talked to folks I knew about it as I had limited experience with that model. I was told that that model Eagle was good, just to avoid it it's smaller sibling as it was junk.(I don't even remember it's name) So we took it home and started to use it. The first year went good. I relaxed and we used it. Then the transmission started acting up. Had it towed to a shop near where my wife worked as it was far enough away from our house to make it silly to take it home. A part on the trans was bad but easily replaced and not terribly expensive. A year later My wife complained about a smell in the cabin(this was winter). Of course it was the heater core. This being winter I had to take it somewhere. That is where the story gets interesting Took forever to find a shop willing to do it. Apparently not only were parts hard to get, but it took a couple of days to change it as it was under the dash and had to be completely disassembled to do it. Finally found a place willing to do it. they ordered the parts and took it apart. The parts arrived. The wrong ones. No others available. He found some in New York I think and had to have them overnighted to here. Finally got it done. $800.00 in 1997 or so. It just kept going from there. The rest of the trans went bad a year so so later(another $1500 job as the transmission was a Renault provided ZF Transaxle. After that the cooling lines under the intake manifold started leaking and was another expensive annoying job. Then problems with the starter and no one could seem to rebuild it correctly and again hard to find a new one. One thing after another. so we finally got rid of it in 2002 after 7 years and about 100,000 miles. Lesson learned. From then on our daily drivers have all been as common as dirt. Millions made, parts and repair available everywhere. Google 1988-1992 Eagle Premier and Dodge Monaco to see what is said about them. The other AMC cars made until the mid 80's were good reliable vehicles just too outdated to be of interest to many and too old to meet new emissions standards. So that is why I believe they are junk.So, Bubb. How is it you personally know, the rest of a v-6 AMC Primer was junk?