I bought a VW Passat the other day for $400 and we've been using that as our conversion for money spent on things to repair it, ex: "I don't want to buy a new O2 sensor, the store sells them for about 1/4 of a Passat".
Basically just letting you know I'm a fan of useless conversions.
Bought it non-running but it was the simplest fix ever. Positive lead from the battery to the starter was inside some heat shrink tubing. Opened it up to find the lead was completely frayed from the battery clamp. Grabbed an eyelet from the junk bag and crimped it on, now it starts right up. Working on patching the exhaust now and then it'll be good as new.
I feel that. I sold my Focus ST to Carvana earlier this year because they were offering me thousands over what I owed. Paid off the loan, bought an old bike to have a fun vehicle, and I've been driving my rusty old truck as a daily. 8-10mpg led me to find a cheap beater with a heater (and 20+mpg for the love of God) and I lucked out.
Keep at it, you'll come across something! Ask coworkers and friends if they know anyone with an old car they're trying to sell, that's how this one fell into my lap.
Think about it this way. You plug in your fan and it doesn't spin. You know the fan spun before, but suddenly it's stopped. The fan wasnt making any weird noises or running poorly before, so you look at the power cord. The cord has a notch cut out of it and a gap. You know electricity can't travel over the air like that, there should be a cord, so you patch the cord and it works!
Yep, that's the idea! I'm not hurting for space, so if it ends up falling apart, I'll just part it out. The thing is loaded, too. Every option for that year (except the lustful, self-destructive W8 of my dreams).
Haha, thanks. I try to keep whatever junk I have happy and running. My truck is one foot in the grave from rust but the engine refuses to die, so I take care of keeping it going.
We knew that it wouldn't start and that the starter was recently replaced to try to remedy it. New starter didn't do the trick so we figured that was one less thing we needed to check/replace ourselves.
The gamble was basically that it could be a super easy fix or it could be something massively wrong with the electrical system. But for $400 it wouldn't be all that inconvenient to just drag it to the scrap yard if it was too much to fix or not worth it.
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u/uniqueusername5001 Aug 26 '21
Is there a button that throws the can 10 feet into my driveway upside down? Or is it just a party trick our guy has learned?
Regardless, this is pretty cool and thank you for what you do!