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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kid Socrates" data-source="post: 2731017" data-attributes="member: 10714">I have a 1992 Mustang LX (read that: Ford car that wants to grow up and be a REAL Mustang one day!) that has no end of problems, I'm sure. It's got about 120,000 miles on it, the door handle on the driver's side broke off during a cold snap, it's overheated and lost oil pressure twice in the last three months, I think I have a coolant leak somewhere, it's got no acceleration, it skids like crazy after a rain, it wheezes like an old man, and my brakes are undecided on efficiency. However, my morning commute to work is all of five blocks.I haven't taken it in, not because I don't trust Firestone mechanics, but I paid $1500 for this car three years ago and last year put about $500 in repairs when the battery cables dissolved, the starter in the steering column went fiz-att, and my turn signals wouldn't work until the car had been on for twenty minutes. I do not believe in paying my car's cost again in repairs, plus I know what'll happen if I take it in.Mechanic: "Son, I've popped the hood and taken a look over her, and I think I see what your problem is."Kid Soc: "Oh? What's that?"Mechanic: "Your car does not actually have an engine."Better to just run it until it gives up the ghost. By then I'll have enough money to get a real car, one with payments!I don't even -have- $3,500 for car repairs. I have no idea how people do it.</blockquote>