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*stands up in front of the crowd*
Hi, my name's Mindscape, and I'm a RAV4 owner.
*waits for the chorus of "Hi, Mindscape"s to die down*
Here's my story:
September of '04, my poor little Honda Civic was brutally slaughtered by some random cockroach-lookin' sedan, so I was in the market for a new car. I managed to survive without one until January of this year, when I got an '84 Chevy Celebrity.
Don't ever get a Celebrity. EVER.
Anyway, yeah, the Celebrity has come to be known by everyone who's come in contact with it as the Demon Car. We've had mechanics we've known and trusted for years tell us that there wasn't anything that they could do for it, and mechanics closer and nearly as trusted tell us that it simply hates us. Going across town (a mere ten-minute drive, here in Podunkville), its average rate of dying was about five times. Thanks to an oil leak that'd cost more than the car's worth to fix draining onto the belts, the alternator doesn't always charge the battery, and so long-distance trips with it became completely unfeasible, and driving to work got pretty darn iffy.
So my fiance and I went looking for a new car.
We checked around at used car lots and found some things that were okay, and some things that were kinda bleah, but nothing that we just fell in love with. We had finished looking one day and were on our way home when we saw a RAV4 L parked in a lot somewhere with a For Sale sign in its window. We stopped, checked it out, and called the next day.
So, this past Wednesday, I got my hot little hands on a four-wheel drive, silver and black RAV4 L with only 60,000 miles on it for $4200. It's got a salvage title, but it seems to be in pristine condition even so, with the exception of some bubbling of the paint and a few scratches down its sides. It runs beautifully and checks out with our mechanic, and most importantly it doesn't die on us constantly. We plan to repaint it with a custom paint job, though we're in no huge hurry because the damage to the paint is relatively minor, and not obvious when you're more than fifteen feet or so from it.
So far, I've learned a good bit about RAV4s, and this site has been quite helpful in doing so. I hope to learn even more in the future, and maybe do a bit of upgrading as time goes by, helping to boost the performance of my new toy.
Hi, my name's Mindscape, and I'm a RAV4 owner.
*waits for the chorus of "Hi, Mindscape"s to die down*
Here's my story:
September of '04, my poor little Honda Civic was brutally slaughtered by some random cockroach-lookin' sedan, so I was in the market for a new car. I managed to survive without one until January of this year, when I got an '84 Chevy Celebrity.
Don't ever get a Celebrity. EVER.
Anyway, yeah, the Celebrity has come to be known by everyone who's come in contact with it as the Demon Car. We've had mechanics we've known and trusted for years tell us that there wasn't anything that they could do for it, and mechanics closer and nearly as trusted tell us that it simply hates us. Going across town (a mere ten-minute drive, here in Podunkville), its average rate of dying was about five times. Thanks to an oil leak that'd cost more than the car's worth to fix draining onto the belts, the alternator doesn't always charge the battery, and so long-distance trips with it became completely unfeasible, and driving to work got pretty darn iffy.
So my fiance and I went looking for a new car.
We checked around at used car lots and found some things that were okay, and some things that were kinda bleah, but nothing that we just fell in love with. We had finished looking one day and were on our way home when we saw a RAV4 L parked in a lot somewhere with a For Sale sign in its window. We stopped, checked it out, and called the next day.
So, this past Wednesday, I got my hot little hands on a four-wheel drive, silver and black RAV4 L with only 60,000 miles on it for $4200. It's got a salvage title, but it seems to be in pristine condition even so, with the exception of some bubbling of the paint and a few scratches down its sides. It runs beautifully and checks out with our mechanic, and most importantly it doesn't die on us constantly. We plan to repaint it with a custom paint job, though we're in no huge hurry because the damage to the paint is relatively minor, and not obvious when you're more than fifteen feet or so from it.
So far, I've learned a good bit about RAV4s, and this site has been quite helpful in doing so. I hope to learn even more in the future, and maybe do a bit of upgrading as time goes by, helping to boost the performance of my new toy.