Talk about the worst luck ever.

EyesOfAnguishbassist · Post by **EyesOfAnguishbassist** » Thursday Dec 06, 2007

Ok well some of you may know we just bought a van off the local Mt Union beer distributor cuz everyone in the band was excited and we were gonna take it on our first trip to Club Octane tomorrow night. We purchased it last week, I drove it home then a trip around the block approximetly 3 times. I payed 50$ to transfer the title, and 100$ for the first monthly payment for insurance, and I was gonna go tomorrow before we left for the show to pay around 75$ to get tags. Well much to my amazement when i went to move it tonight I didnt have reverse whatsoever and it slips horribly in drive. Talk about pissed, I mean I know you could say its our fault for not checking it over closely but we did and it seemed fine. I dont know if theres a way you can doctor them up so they seem alright until you sell them to a sucker but I cant help but feel lots of hatred towards the guy who sold it to us. All I can say right now is FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK IM MAD!

RamRod 1 · Post by **RamRod 1** » Thursday Dec 06, 2007

IT HAPPENS. KEEP GOING.

AND GOD BLESS YOU.

I bought a cheap car once and the same thing happened. I scored a used tranny at a junk yard and found someone to put it in. Got lucky!

Evaluate your options and just take the easist way out.

lonewolf · Post by **lonewolf** » Thursday Dec 06, 2007

Isn't there a 3 day lemon law in PA?

EyesOfAnguishbassist · Post by **EyesOfAnguishbassist** » Thursday Dec 06, 2007

well we bought it last monday so its been a little over a week, i already looked into that

Primates · Post by **Primates** » Friday Dec 07, 2007

EyesOfAnguishbassist wrote:well we bought it last monday so its been a little over a week, i already looked into that

You can borrow my jeep!

UNEARTHA7XMatt · Post by **UNEARTHA7XMatt** » Friday Dec 07, 2007

Ha Ha Funny Dakota!

rreihart · Post by **rreihart** » Friday Dec 07, 2007

RamRod 1 wrote:IT HAPPENS. KEEP GOING.

AND GOD BLESS YOU.

I bought a cheap car once and the same thing happened. I scored a used tranny at a junk yard and found someone to put it in. Got lucky!

Evaluate your options and just take the easist way out.

Whatever you do, don't Google "used tranny".

VENTGtr · Post by **VENTGtr** » Friday Dec 07, 2007

rreihart wrote:
Whatever you do, don't Google "used tranny".

Welp, now we know how Justin's spending his free time with the gimpy arm.

DrumAndDestroy · Post by **DrumAndDestroy** » Friday Dec 07, 2007

VENTGtr wrote:
rreihart wrote:
Whatever you do, don't Google "used tranny".
Welp, now we know how Justin's spending his free time with the gimpy arm.

Well, that along with my dog fighting ring...

EyesOfAnguishbassist · Post by **EyesOfAnguishbassist** » Friday Dec 07, 2007

rreihart wrote:
RamRod 1 wrote:IT HAPPENS. KEEP GOING.

AND GOD BLESS YOU.

I bought a cheap car once and the same thing happened. I scored a used tranny at a junk yard and found someone to put it in. Got lucky!

Evaluate your options and just take the easist way out.
Whatever you do, don't Google "used tranny".

HAhahaha thats what everyone around here calls em too..

And we're gonna look for a used "transmission" but it sucks cuz we used all of our money just to get the van on the road and we're pretty much flat broke! lol we only paid 500$ for the van so im thinkin with what it will cost to buy a tranny and pay someone labor to fix it we'd be better off to buy another one.

Now for the fun today, We have 2 shows one tonight and one tomorrow and we gotta take 3 seperate cars just to get to em, and the one tonight is almost 3 hours away. Blah

DirtySanchez · Post by **DirtySanchez** » Friday Dec 07, 2007

Rent a UHAUL trailer.

EyesOfAnguishbassist · Post by **EyesOfAnguishbassist** » Friday Dec 07, 2007

DirtySanchez wrote:Rent a UHAUL trailer.

Well we dont have hitches on our cars, but I guess we could get the truck and all but we're pretty broke after tryin to get that heap legally on the road.

DirtySanchez · Post by **DirtySanchez** » Friday Dec 07, 2007

I'm pretty sure you can rent a hitch too.

It wopuld have to be cheaper than driving 3 cars to a few shows.

DrumAndDestroy · Post by **DrumAndDestroy** » Friday Dec 07, 2007

DirtySanchez wrote:I'm pretty sure you can rent a hitch too.

It wopuld have to be cheaper than driving 3 cars to a few shows.

Depends on the hitch...my advice would be to buy one instead of renting it. The small pull behind...with plenty of room to take a bands stuff is like $10 or $20 to rent. We did that for a show we played in NYC this past summer.

EyesOfAnguishbassist · Post by **EyesOfAnguishbassist** » Friday Dec 07, 2007

Heres the icing on the cake lol.. I just went out to check the fluids in ym car and I just noticed the inspection ran out last month. Luckily my uncle owns a garage and im gonna get it inspected at 12:30... Man what a last 2 days these have been. lol, Im gonna make sure to take out some extra agression on stage tonight, if the SNOW doesn't hold us from getting there that is.

todd17063 · Post by **todd17063** » Friday Dec 07, 2007

bfore buying a tranny check and see if your just low on tranny fluid. that could be a 10 dollar fix..

VENTGtr · Post by **VENTGtr** » Friday Dec 07, 2007

todd17063 wrote:bfore buying a tranny check and see if your just low on tranny fluid. that could be a 10 dollar fix..

Todd...you mean "Transmission", right? Not that I care, just that checking the fluid on the
alternative....EERRCCHHH!!! MENTAL SHUTDOWN! ALERT: MENTAL SHUTDOWN!!!!!!

EyesOfAnguishbassist · Post by **EyesOfAnguishbassist** » Friday Dec 07, 2007

its full of TRANSMISSION fluid haha, already thought of that.

todd17063 · Post by **todd17063** » Friday Dec 07, 2007

Dave, don't even go that way dude... well unless its a hot tranny then a few thousand beers later.. well wait ummm nah . well i dunno .hmmmmmm well nahhhhhhh tough choices.. ummmmmm... now are we talkin pre or post surgery??? lmao.......

Primates · Post by **Primates** » Friday Dec 07, 2007

EyesOfAnguishbassist wrote:its full of TRANSMISSION fluid haha, already thought of that.

Did you try kicking it? That usually works for me.

VENTGtr · Post by **VENTGtr** » Friday Dec 07, 2007

todd17063 wrote:Dave, don't even go that way dude... well unless its a hot tranny then a few thousand beers later.. well wait ummm nah . well i dunno .hmmmmmm well nahhhhhhh tough choices.. ummmmmm... now are we talkin pre or post surgery??? lmao.......

Todd,

'At's hilarious. I think I see Paul starting another poll!

boot-man · Post by **boot-man** » Friday Dec 07, 2007

lonewolf wrote:Isn't there a 3 day lemon law in PA?

yeah there is but if he bought the van "as is" then he's screwed. i used to work at a used car lot and yes there are way to doctor things like that up so you can get rid of them.

try putting brake fluid in your transmission. that will expand the bands and should help you out. however this is only a temorpary fix. if that doesn't work then your tranny-mission. is fucked. pardon the pun.

zman1200 · Post by **zman1200** » Friday Dec 07, 2007

The torque converter usually goes bad then it destroyes the tranny .the radiator and tranny lines needs flushed and the torque converter needs to be new the tranny rebuilt .I have 2 garages that take care of my vehicles . and it is cheapppper to do it right the first time or try acouple quarts of LUCAS oil you might get lucky avoid brake fluid .do not over fill