... too many wheels, to be honest.
Right before we returned to post from R and R last year, we bought a cheap car for a cheap price. Then it sat for an entire year essentially untouched. Turns out, it didn't like that. I discovered during my roughly 700 mile trip round trip from Pennsylvania to Massachusetts that it burns oil at a much higher-than-normal rate (like, I had to check the oil every couple of hours). We had it checked out and tried a solution that might have fixed the problem without a large and costly repair.
It helped immensely, but it didn't work as well as we needed it to.
So then we were faced with a choice: keep the car and hope it passes Maryland emissions (or that we are able to get it waived in after paying a fee, something we never quite understood how it worked but several sources said was a real option); or buy a different old crappy car for the year in the USA; or buy a car we hope/think/believe we can ship to Germany.
In the end we bought a newish Mazda (the youngest car I have ever owned! Only 5 years old!) that we believe we can take with us and that will not embarrass us on the Autobahn.
We still haven't had an opportunity to return Terry's dad's car that we borrowed to him. We can't get rid of the useless Prizm until we have the title in our hands, and it is in PA. So now we sit with four cars parked in front of our house. The driveway fits one. The curb right in front of our house fits two. The last car is across the street. This is ridiculous.
Right before we returned to post from R and R last year, we bought a cheap car for a cheap price. Then it sat for an entire year essentially untouched. Turns out, it didn't like that. I discovered during my roughly 700 mile trip round trip from Pennsylvania to Massachusetts that it burns oil at a much higher-than-normal rate (like, I had to check the oil every couple of hours). We had it checked out and tried a solution that might have fixed the problem without a large and costly repair.
It helped immensely, but it didn't work as well as we needed it to.
So then we were faced with a choice: keep the car and hope it passes Maryland emissions (or that we are able to get it waived in after paying a fee, something we never quite understood how it worked but several sources said was a real option); or buy a different old crappy car for the year in the USA; or buy a car we hope/think/believe we can ship to Germany.
In the end we bought a newish Mazda (the youngest car I have ever owned! Only 5 years old!) that we believe we can take with us and that will not embarrass us on the Autobahn.
We still haven't had an opportunity to return Terry's dad's car that we borrowed to him. We can't get rid of the useless Prizm until we have the title in our hands, and it is in PA. So now we sit with four cars parked in front of our house. The driveway fits one. The curb right in front of our house fits two. The last car is across the street. This is ridiculous.
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That was us, but with ironing boards, so I feel your pain in a very strange way, though I must say I would take a glut of ironing boards over a glut of vehicles any day. Hoping you can whittle your wheels down and it all goes easy on the pocket book.
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