im sorry i just gotta rant. cliffnotes at the bottom
so today im driving home from school on the freeway, look down at the temp gauge, and its like all the way too the right
so i pull over and theres coolant gushing out of the reservoir. luckily i was close to a gas station so i went and got water and got it home since it was only 2 miles. i suspect that the water pump is to blame, but right now i still have to check the reservoir for cracks and whatnot.
i have had this car since mid december, and since then, i have had to replace the battery, the alternator, the power steering belt, the master brake cylinder, all the brake lines, and now this. ive put about $450 into it, and thats not including the countless hours in the cold i have spent doing the work. its left me on the side of the road 3 times, and caused one accident. its had more inopperable days than opperable. when will it end? must i replace every single part on the entire car? every time i fix something i say to myself, "well that it. now i should have a couple years of maintenance free motoring". wrong. WRONG. something else breaks just when im getting my confidence back up. i should have just kept driving when i saw the temperature. i shouldve just floored it til it ground to a grinding, smoking halt. and then i shouldve walked away and never turned back.
cliffs: my car broke down yet again. btw its a 1985 golf diesel