OK, so I get to school today and I'm putting stuff in my locker, getting ready to go get scrubbed in when one of the other students comes in and is all kinds of depressed looking. Naturally, me being a super-sweetheart like I am, ask her whats wrong. Apparently she had some car troubles Sunday, starts telling me about it, starts tearing up, and goes off about how her parents say it's all her fault, and so on, and so forth.
I let it go for a while, mainly because I had surgery and she took off somewhere. So I pull her kinda off to the side and start asking her what exactly happened, hell maybe it's something I can fix for her so she'll go out with my buddy again, who knows. This is paraphrased, but it's about as detailed as I can remember: (her car is a 97 Saturn SL)
"Was gonna go out with some friends Sunday about 11pm... nothing was wrong, got about 10 mins out from the house and the car just died. No wierd sounds, no warning, nothing. Then when I went to start it, all it did was clicked. So I called home got dad up, blah blah.......... *goes off* ........... So we took it to the repair shop and they said the engine locked up because the oil froze."
Me- "What?... the oil froze?"
her-"That's what they said"
Me- "That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard.... oil freezing...."
Her- "Anyway, they had this thing they hooked it up to, or put on it, and they unlocked it, which cost me $200"
Me- "They 'unlocked it'? How the hell did they 'unlock' it?"
Her- "I dunno, they just said they did. Now it'll run and drive good, but they said it only has a week left before it completely crapps out. So I need a good cheap car to drive.... know where I can get a Supra?"
Me- "You don't want a Supra, they aren't cheap, and they aren't reliable."
OK, made that last part up.
So I spend the next hour trying to convince her my Bro's 93 Accord would be perfect, 85k miles, $1500 would be perfect. 85k miles is too much, it'll be as unreliable as her car now.
Anyway, she heads to class and I tell her to call me when she got out. She calls I ask her if she wants me to swing by and check it out (wasn't at the hospital), she says her mom and dad think it would be a waste of time, but thx anyway. So I tell her to find out what they're gonna do w/ the car, and she checks for me. 'probably sell it for parts or just sell it'. So me being the business man I am ask how much... they don't know. They'll check and get back w/ me. so a few hours pass, and she says they're just gonna use it as a trade in toward a good car. I inform her that she wont get crapp for it at a dealer.... blah blah....
anyway, might be picking up a Saturn, if anyone is interested. lol
How do you freeze oil? That's my question.
Cliffs-
Chicks car breaks down, takes it to a repair shop, they tell her it locked up, they 'unlock' it, tell her the oil froze, I tell her they're retards, she cried.... lol
I let it go for a while, mainly because I had surgery and she took off somewhere. So I pull her kinda off to the side and start asking her what exactly happened, hell maybe it's something I can fix for her so she'll go out with my buddy again, who knows. This is paraphrased, but it's about as detailed as I can remember: (her car is a 97 Saturn SL)
"Was gonna go out with some friends Sunday about 11pm... nothing was wrong, got about 10 mins out from the house and the car just died. No wierd sounds, no warning, nothing. Then when I went to start it, all it did was clicked. So I called home got dad up, blah blah.......... *goes off* ........... So we took it to the repair shop and they said the engine locked up because the oil froze."
Me- "What?... the oil froze?"
her-"That's what they said"
Me- "That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard.... oil freezing...."
Her- "Anyway, they had this thing they hooked it up to, or put on it, and they unlocked it, which cost me $200"
Me- "They 'unlocked it'? How the hell did they 'unlock' it?"
Her- "I dunno, they just said they did. Now it'll run and drive good, but they said it only has a week left before it completely crapps out. So I need a good cheap car to drive.... know where I can get a Supra?"
Me- "You don't want a Supra, they aren't cheap, and they aren't reliable."
OK, made that last part up.
So I spend the next hour trying to convince her my Bro's 93 Accord would be perfect, 85k miles, $1500 would be perfect. 85k miles is too much, it'll be as unreliable as her car now.
Anyway, she heads to class and I tell her to call me when she got out. She calls I ask her if she wants me to swing by and check it out (wasn't at the hospital), she says her mom and dad think it would be a waste of time, but thx anyway. So I tell her to find out what they're gonna do w/ the car, and she checks for me. 'probably sell it for parts or just sell it'. So me being the business man I am ask how much... they don't know. They'll check and get back w/ me. so a few hours pass, and she says they're just gonna use it as a trade in toward a good car. I inform her that she wont get crapp for it at a dealer.... blah blah....
anyway, might be picking up a Saturn, if anyone is interested. lol
How do you freeze oil? That's my question.
Cliffs-
Chicks car breaks down, takes it to a repair shop, they tell her it locked up, they 'unlock' it, tell her the oil froze, I tell her they're retards, she cried.... lol