Do you see anything wrong with this picture?

The car is getting worse… I’m counting down the days until it dies.

My car has dash lights galore!

Check Engine Light – shows when I brake on the freeway… I’m not sure why. I call it my car’s rebellion to traffic.
Flashing Sports Mode Light – it’s like the car doesn’t know if it wants to go “Sporty” or “Regular”
Broken/Intermittently Broken Speedometer – do you know any other 1990 Honda Accords that can go 0-80 in 0.5 seconds?
Broken Tripometer and Odometer (when the above doesn’t work) – what a better way to limit milage than to have it not track!
Rear Lamp Light Out – I know it’s not out, my car knows it’s not out… but my car doesn’t know that I know that it knows it’s not out!

Robin and Pat just purchased a 2006 Saturn Vue. Congrats, it looks cool!

Check out the pictures.

Because of one “stalled car” on I5, a 30 minute routine trip took about 80 minutes today. Can the car not be moved to the side of the road? What’s the problem? Traffic was so bad that the person with whom I carpool was late for his meeting, and I would not have even made it to school before my class was finished.

Traffic is ridiculous. What a waste of a morning.

I have a 1990 Honda Accord. It was once great. Now? Not so much.

I bought the car in 2002 for $2500 when I first got my license. I bought it from my Aunt and Uncle, who said it was “the best car they’ve ever had”. Since then, I’ve put on 50,000 miles, 1 totalling accident, a brake job, and a new muffler.

Sometime in 2003, I noticed that the “Brake Lamp” light on my dash was lit up. I checked, there were no brake lights out. I changed the brake bulbs, the light didn’t go away. Confused and frustrated, I said forget it. So now, there’s a permanent “Brake Lamp” light on my dash. YAY.

The car has always had a problem with overheating… if I’m on the freeway in traffic on a hot day, the engine temperature will get to the H, forcing me to turn up the heat and roll down the windows (because it’s not hot enough anyway). This was actually the catalyst to more problems.

Because I carpool with Pat, he wanted to fix the overheating problem, and he was sure that he could. He has a background in dealing with cars, so I trusted him. He “replaced a fuse and cleaned the grounds”, whatever that means, and at first it was great. The air conditioner could be kept on for the whole hour long trip from Tualatin to Vancouver in traffic. A few days later, the speedometer stopped working. I would be driving, and all of a sudden it would read “0 mph”. It would intermittently swap between 0 and the correct mph. (By the way, have you ever seen a 1990 Honda Accord go 0-60 in 0.5 seconds? I have .)

After a few days of dealing with this problem, I was told it wasn’t serious, just perhaps a cosmetic problem. Then all of a sudden, the “Check Engine” light would intermittently come on. I may be car-dumb, but I know that’s certainly not “cosmetic”…

So I’ll be taking it into the shop (joy) very soon, hopefully it won’t be too serious (expensive).