I have all the god damn luck! i finally get my fricken license and the first day that i MAY be able to drive to school.... and we gotta take my dad's truck to the shop. so no ride on monday... big deal..... my dad then gets a call from the shop that what is wrong with the truck is not the wheel bearing, as we thought (which would be a pretty simple fix) but instead a blown rear differential... whish would cost us a whopping $1200... yer thats one thousand, two-hundred dollars. holy crap. thats more that half of what we paid for the damn bronco in the first place!!! and this coming just a week or so after we just put about $500 into a new fan clutch and water pump!!!!! and the taurus just had its transmission gasket replaced at the same time. so... to recap:
a couple of weeks ago both the taurus and the bronco go down with relatively minor problems. the taurus has a leaky tranny and the bronco sounds funny: wobblie fan = bad fan clutch, which in turn screwed up the water pump... a goon $700 right there.
2 weeks later both go down again, this time the Taurus looses its braking power do to a bad Master Cylinder wich we buy and i help replace, and again, at the same time, the bronco dies... only it has a blown differential. sop togather that will cost about $1265. we said screw the bronco, make funeral arrangements... that thing is gone. the taurus is now runnning fine. and does anyone see a parallel here??... is it any coincidense that they are both FORDS!?!?! i say no. so noe we need a new car (well used.. the way my dad drives...) anyone selling a car?!?! Rash WAS selling one of his benzez.... key word=WAS. i sure could use that thing now.