What Type Of Car Do You Drive?

I drive a 2004 ford Taurus. I bought it off an aging relative about a year and a half ago and it only had 30,000 miles on it as a 10 yr old car. Everything you hear about fords is pretty accurate, I'm finding out, to the point where I won't even road trip with it anymore because every road trip we've taken in it something breaks without warning.

But I don't want a car payment so guess I'll stick with it.

I also have a 95 Mazda miata I've kept around as a back up vehicle, but it currently isn't running. My boyfriend tried to replace a wheel bearing on it but the wheel bearing was fused to a bigger part, just due to the age. So now I have to replace that whole part..can't remember what part it is.

I actually hate cars. They're such a money pit. Hopefully one day I will live somewhere I can walk to work and to run all my day to day errands and will just keep a car for visiting people who aren't in walking distance.

 

My ride. She gets me from point A, to wherever the fuck I need to go. Her name is Tabitha Z, and I love her ferociously.

 

Ash, your Buick looks just like my Oldsmobile I once had back in college. It was white just like yours complete with the paint falling off. It was a comfortable car that rode like a cloud. It also had a bench seat in the front.

 

The Taurus was a lemon ford to begin with. Not all fords are crap, their biggest problem is they have a record of not honoring, or completely shirking their warranty work. So when you buy a used ford, make sure any recall or warranty stuff was actually repaired.

It might take some cussing but that hub/ wheel bearing should come off with a slide hammer. If that doesn't work you have to take the axle out of the differential and take it to a shop that will remove the hub and bearing with a hydraulic press. Miatas are fun little cars.

I commiserate though, cars suck. It would be awesome to live and work somewhere all your daily business could be done with train and trolly.

 

Those retro cars had the best designs....the run of the mill cars today are awful in design.....and insult my artistic eye....

That is a beautiful car right there.....

 

I used to drive my parents Oldsmobile without them knowing and blast Linkin Park so loud that I probably should have blown the speakers! We have great taste in cars, me and you

 

I love my BAT (Big Ass Truck). She's an old Dodge diesel quad and she's my baby. 12 years old and I've never had to do a major repair. Almost 200k miles on her now. I'm going to drive this truck forever. No GPS crap or computer gizmos. Hauls a hoot load of hay.

Next year... I'm buying a motorcycle for the weekends.. probably a trike... but don't tell BAT.

 

I'm looking at getting a "truck" one of these years, something with a small tray I can throw the dog into and then our gear in the back seat and just go down some dirt roads and find somewhere to camp up.

 

I drive a Ford F350 diesel for my job. It's so expensive to operate and I don't mean fuel costs as diesel engines are a lot more efficient than gas rigs. It's the maintenance costs! It takes 14 quarts of oil, so an oil change is like $120 bucks. I have over $5000 repairs not accounting for fuel or oil in the last 25,000 miles lol....fail!

 

@AshIicious I owned a white 1994 Pontiac Grand Prix for years. It is the same car as your Buick just different styling. I had the 3.1 v6. It was a great car never had any problems with it to 140,000 miles when I sold it. If you can keep the head gaskets in good shape it will last forever. Fun fact GM was suited years ago by owners of these cars for installing weak head gaskets, in fact the engine coolant would eat the gaskets away resulting in coolant getting into the engine causing engines to seize up. It was like GM created the gasket to be allergic to the coolant that it was supposed to keep out of the engine lol. Anyway, I was happy to see your car, reminds me of mine.

 

If that car isn't sexy I don't know what is! Yeah man they should bring back this retro look. From my POV: how could people not love it?

Overall I feel the same. I do think though there is just as much thought put in design in current cars, it's just not our taste. Ever since they focussed more on aerodesign. Well some are not too bad... but I like those round shapes and old fashioned chrome lines around the windows and such.

 

We actually did take it to a mechanic friend who used a hydraulic press and it didn't work lol. Stubborn little thing. I like the miata though, it is a lot of fun to drive and for the most part a low maintenance car.

 

every once in a while, when I see a 50's Chevy or somthing like that go by, I have to stop and stare......those lines......Rolls Royce can be pretty in design, too....and there are a few others.....but I am no car expert...i just know what I like when I see it.

 

My husband's Jeep has reached an age where it's extremely expensive to maintain. The low mileage (19 MPG) is the least of our concerns.

I have to have a reliable ride because we do so many day trips, sometimes getting back home late at night. If there's an event worth going to within a two hour radius, I'm there to support it.

Volvo seems to have recovered from its period of Ford control.

My only major transmission failure (so far, knock on wood) has been an Audi A4, which got a complete replacement under warranty at around 40,000 miles.

 

Thanks!!

 

Yeah I mentioned the slide hammer in a previous post. I assumed it was the rear too. I actually just did the rear bearings on one side of my Metro without the use of a slide hammer. I just used a hammer and screwdriver to carefully tap all around the backside of the hub till it came off. (edit; oop's I meant brake drum, no disk brakes on the rear like the Miata, lol) I did both front wheel bearings last year and even had to replace one of the hubs as a bearing apparently froze up and spun on the hub, making a groove. Besides my labor and the one screwed up hub, each wheel cost less than 25$ to replace bearings.

I have a Ford ranger with a big 4 litre 6 cylinder engine but my Metro with it's 1 litre, 3 cylinder is sooo much cheaper to drive.

 

I drive a 1995 hyundai accent with approximately 171k miles on it. It's a super piece of shit, a bearing in the transmission is knocking loudly (if i push the clutch in, i get a little noise relief, ha), I can't drive it at night when it's raining, it leaks oil majorly from the timing belt gasket, and I can't drive it over 60 mph. But it starts every day and gets me to work, which is all that I ask for.