Many of you have seen my "free" truck from my brother.... I have been heard many times saying"free is ALWAYS good"! I am half tempted to rethink my current stance on "free". My Brother bought this truck with 5,000 miles on it at about a year old in 1995. Now I feel impressed to share a little bit about this brother... he has NOT had the best history of taking care of vehicles in his possession. Anyhow, this truck was actually his Changing point. (well, sort of) This one he actually kept clean and maintained regularly. The klinker was that the truck liked to have "issues". Now, me, being the younger brother fell in love a bit with this ole girl. After having very expensive repairs covered under warranty for about three years, it ran well for a while until about 2003. Then, "IT" happened. The very expensive repair came back. Only this time, the warranty wasn't there to cover it. My brother, holding true to his former self, decided that time would heal better than money. FOUR YEARS LATER, time had only faded the paint... Deciding to be noble, my brother was going to donate this "awesome truck". That is to give it to some Undeserving charity to help build homes or something to the poor.... Yeah, THAT'S charitable.... So, right before the big call, he say's " Oh, I didn't think of it till now.... But did YOU want it"? " Well it was about time!!" I thought. All those covetous prayers finally paid off! All he wanted was for me to give something to that, that "charity" to still help those homeless people. Well as luck would have it, I had a car to get rid of anyway so everything worked out GREAT! Well, it was SUPPOSED to any way... First, the BIG expense turned out not being big. It was just a small pump for the fuel to reach the motor like $200.00. YIPEE!! blessings come from the funniest places, or do they? I was so happy I went all out... New brakes and rotors, some lighting problems, change all the fluids ect... $700.00 After driving it a bit, the BIG problem returned... No, wait... Only a $400.00 part that's not bad cause it was FREE, right. Oops, I forgot the tires $600.00. OH, and the air conditioning clutch $150.00 and that ate the serpentine belt but that was cheap... Then I think the Big problem came up AGAIN.... NO,NO, false alarm. The pesky $400.00 part I bought didn't hold up. OH well, it was a gamble... But hey, for $700.00 I got one with a warranty!! Then the starter went... but that was only $165.00 and that's not bad... so now there's this funny sound coming from that darn air conditioner again but I'm sure it's nothing, cause after all FREE IS ALWAYS GOOD!!!
Monday, February 25, 2008
"The Source of my Agida"
Many of you have seen my "free" truck from my brother.... I have been heard many times saying"free is ALWAYS good"! I am half tempted to rethink my current stance on "free". My Brother bought this truck with 5,000 miles on it at about a year old in 1995. Now I feel impressed to share a little bit about this brother... he has NOT had the best history of taking care of vehicles in his possession. Anyhow, this truck was actually his Changing point. (well, sort of) This one he actually kept clean and maintained regularly. The klinker was that the truck liked to have "issues". Now, me, being the younger brother fell in love a bit with this ole girl. After having very expensive repairs covered under warranty for about three years, it ran well for a while until about 2003. Then, "IT" happened. The very expensive repair came back. Only this time, the warranty wasn't there to cover it. My brother, holding true to his former self, decided that time would heal better than money. FOUR YEARS LATER, time had only faded the paint... Deciding to be noble, my brother was going to donate this "awesome truck". That is to give it to some Undeserving charity to help build homes or something to the poor.... Yeah, THAT'S charitable.... So, right before the big call, he say's " Oh, I didn't think of it till now.... But did YOU want it"? " Well it was about time!!" I thought. All those covetous prayers finally paid off! All he wanted was for me to give something to that, that "charity" to still help those homeless people. Well as luck would have it, I had a car to get rid of anyway so everything worked out GREAT! Well, it was SUPPOSED to any way... First, the BIG expense turned out not being big. It was just a small pump for the fuel to reach the motor like $200.00. YIPEE!! blessings come from the funniest places, or do they? I was so happy I went all out... New brakes and rotors, some lighting problems, change all the fluids ect... $700.00 After driving it a bit, the BIG problem returned... No, wait... Only a $400.00 part that's not bad cause it was FREE, right. Oops, I forgot the tires $600.00. OH, and the air conditioning clutch $150.00 and that ate the serpentine belt but that was cheap... Then I think the Big problem came up AGAIN.... NO,NO, false alarm. The pesky $400.00 part I bought didn't hold up. OH well, it was a gamble... But hey, for $700.00 I got one with a warranty!! Then the starter went... but that was only $165.00 and that's not bad... so now there's this funny sound coming from that darn air conditioner again but I'm sure it's nothing, cause after all FREE IS ALWAYS GOOD!!!
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You need a second job to support your "Free" Car. If anyone needs help Randy is for hire. I am such a patient loving wife.
Ya, you can't beat a free $3,315 truck (yep, added it all up myself). Hey I'll have a free van that I'll be selling in a few months... you want that too?! (I figured if I added the word "free" on it would sound a little bit more desirable... I'm smart like that.)
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