how to kill the ghost of bad luck?:(

[BuDavid]

I guess I have the ghost of bad luck following me:( only if I knew how to kill him!!

I just decided to make the future step for my 280Z and buy ST springs+KYB's GR-2, I'm just waiting for selling my 300ZX (hopefully after tomorrow):stupid:

BUT! I took the car to allign the wheels and this bad luck ghost braught me a new present! CNTROL ARM BUSHING NEED TO BE REPLACED, well after I replaced the comp. rod bushing! and I found out that the steering rack boot that I replaced 3 mounths ago is torn!!?? damn! this is called bad quality spare parts!

and more to come when I saw the drain plug of the radiator broken and the threaded part is still inside and didn't want to f**k off to be replaced.. but after a good onservation, the damn radiator needs to be changed soon!!!:dead:

I'm starting to lose faith in this car! I'm treating it so good, I drive it once a week or less and all this $^!# fall on my head !!

I dont know what radiator shall I buy?? since we have a real hot weather here, it reaches 48-50C so often in the summer! and I use a thermostat with 80C!

what a headache!

[agemeansnothing]

Well if you have say spare 300.00 dollars buy a radiator for a V8, donno if it would work just a thought, but the rest of the problems just buy presting parts so they last longer even if there pretty expensive.

[sakijo]

You have OCS - Old Car Syndrome. Old cars need to have things replaced because, well . . . it's old. In the last year, I replaced my entire brake system, clutch system, shocks, struts, ball joints, and had the head overhauled because it was burning oil. $$$$ to say the least.

Buy a 4 core radiator, if you can. A good radiator shop should be able to make one up for you. Good luck. And don't give in to OCS - there is no cure, but you can live with it if controlled properly.

[BuDavid]

yeah, as if I heared something new now;)

anyway, thanks for the support, but I guess I'll end up with a screw driver in my head:)

I dont care, I'm buying the new springs+shox! and the damn radiator will take his place under the hood! this car will run 20 more years!

thanx people;)

[EScanlon]

To answer the question in the title of your original post: "how to kill the ghost of bad luck? ", here is what is actually happening.

You've put your wallet or checkbook in the console area of the car.

The car can SENSE money is in your wallet or in your checkbook. This is a little known, but widely acknowledged OEM feature.

If you get the car completely re-done and it is absolutely beautiful and every possible part that SHOULD have been replaced, gets replaced, the car will operate beautifully and flawlessly.

Put your wallet/checkbook ON the console and....within 50 miles or 75 kilometers (depending on your speedometer), you'll discover something that needs replacing.

This isn't bad luck. The car can sense if you have money or money available to you and, like a very high maintenance woman.....will find ways of getting you to spend it on her.

Thankfully, this money sensor doesn't work very well in the passenger seat bottom. Everywhere else in the car....it's accurate to $1.

So, the trick is to

1) NEVER EVER carry cash in the car.

2) If you find it absolutely necessary to carry some form of money tendering item....put it on the passenger seat. Some people go as far as putting it into a fake woman's purse, to throw the money sensor off, but that may be a bit extreme.

3) If you ever think that this isn't true....test it. Put a SINGLE Hundred Dollar Bill on the console. This will limit repairs/replacements to under One Thousand Dollars, but you will have confirmed that it is in fact....working.

4) Don't try to tease the monster by putting smaller denomination bills. It has an exponential multiplication factor for anything less than Hundred Dollar Bills and you may have to secure a second mortgage.

5) If you feel like you want to commit financial hara-kiri, put more than one hundred dollars on the console. This has not been tried often, and the few times that it has happened.....well, the results are long and protracted. Word from those that have seen the effects of this is that you DO NOT want to do it.

But having let the monster smell the $, you have only one recourse....appease it. Buy the replacement parts and once they all get installed on the car....take her out, wash and wax her, tell her she's lovely and you would NEVER look at or spend money on another one, but most importantly, NEVER EVER let her see your wallet.

Others will no doubt chime in with their horror stories. This may not be a subject for Ian's ears, nor anyone who doesn't believe this to be true.

FWIW

E

[hls30.com]

Enrique is right, the car knows how much money you have, and it is measuring your value of it. Once the car is comfortable with how much you value it, the money test will dissapear-unless your significant other situation changes-then it will start again unless the car becomes the siginifant other.

If the car gets worried another love interest is getting in the way, repair bills will get as high as dependability will get low. There are a couple of threads on this phemomenon, so I would reproduce them here, but it sufices to say Enrique is right, when a Z guestions its worth to its owner it becomes a high maintenance woman!

Will

[a7dz]

I would settle for just a few minor parts. Spent All winter welding in enough metal so I was not afraid to move her.

[BuDavid]

EScanlon

for a while I thaught that you were talking about your wife;) (kidding)

I guess you are right man, when I go out, the wallet is either in the center consoule or on the passenger seat:(

man, if you have seen how much love do I give that car you would tell her "SHAME ON YOU DOING THIS TO HIM";)

but what to do, I'll try to satisfy her more as I mentioned..

hls30.com,

about a nother love in her way, maybe you are right, I baught a 300ZX, a since that time, both of them were nagging for stupid stuff:) I guess the were jelous from each other;) but my mistake is that I gave them both MUCH attention! while I should focus on my old honey;)

a7dz,

your attached picture really gives me the motivation man;)

thanx guys..

[EScanlon]

Believe me, we share your pain, as it is the same pain we have.

A7DZ has been aflicted for 33 years, and he still bears up under the weight. I think he put his paycheck in the center console ONE time....and you see the ensuing photograph.

I believe Will has considered (or maybe has already) buying SEPARATE buildings in which to store his beauties. He's the smarter one of us by far, keep them apart, they can't share, commiserate and plot against you.

I took a hint from his book, and bought some carports. Thankfully, I can hide them on my property such that they aren't TOO noticeable. Otherwise, I'm sure the neighbors would comment.

Keep up the good work, the reward is more than worth it. Tell each one that she's beautiful, and heap praise as needed.

Enrique

[Blue Meanie]

Ghosts hate liquor. Drink lots, it helps with my demons!

[BuDavid]

I forgot that I posted that one allready, I thaught that it is out of history allready;)

EScanlon, they are allready separated:) seems to be better, and starting to reward them now..

Blue Meanie, Drink, well I dont drink, any other solutions to kick ghosts? would grass help?

[KDMatt]

I would also like the post in regards to the "Ethereal Money Detector" device hidden inside of the car.

(Knock on wood) I'm just a poor college kid, and my Z has been very kind to me... of course, seeing as the Z is really my only means of transportation, she knows that I can't ever look at another car the same way I do her.

I rarely have cash in my wallet... or when I do it's because I've anticipated a trip to the auto parts store, or the gas station.

... Although, I have left a lot of loose change lying around inside ('once had my seatbelt get jammed because a dime wriggled its way down there somehow) ... I think there's close to $3 in quarters under the arm rest... This leads me to believe that the money detector cannot sense the presence of loose change (at least in small quantities) ... perhaps it recognizes the metal coins as native (as in, not foreign, monetary goods).

I would like to see someone tote $100 in quarters and see if the Z can acknowledge that it's spendable money.