Archive for April 5, 2008

Calculated Obsolescence or Random Self-Destruction?

My 2003 Chevy truck tried to self-destruct first quarter of this year. Read the rest of this entry »

Cash is King!

Well here it is, a little over a year after my article on my wife’s purchase of a pre-owned 1996 Buick LaSabre, to replace the one she totaled the November before that. Our technician, who sold her the car to begin with, had to replace the engine. He felt so bad about the engine giving up the ghost within the thirty days after the purchase that he did it free of charge. Now that’s rare! Who knows what the cost would have been if we had to pay for it. He did not say…and we didn’t ask!

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