I'm getting sick of the Celica., Somebody change my mind. Options

[richee3]

The title says it all. I bought the car with 93,000 miles on it, and it was my second Celica. It was a major disappointment from my first Celi, although my first was an ST auto and this one is a GT 5-speed. Ever since I got this car, I've had problems with it. It wasn't taken care of before I got it, so it's shot a spark plug out on me and half the stuff is broken on it. No power antenna. No antenna at all, actually. Paint falling off the front bumper. Half the interior plastics are broken. No cruise control (broken switch.) No floormats. Burns oil when I start it up. Burns oil after I start it up. I've had it two years last month, and have had to get the tires aligned 3 times. I'm on my 3rd set of tires too, partially because I'm sick of getting it aligned so I just let it f*** up the tires now. It almost feels cheaper. New suspension all around, which needs to be replaced AGAIN. Steering is loose, and the car often drifts. It makes me carsick just trying to drive in a straight line. I've taken the whole driver's side of the car out when I hit a deer, and now the door doesn't fit in the door jamb all that well and the window won't roll up right. Paint falling off the front bumper. The car has been wrecked, but not bad. Just bad enough to repaint the front bumper and nothing else. But due to the tire and suspension problems, I wonder if it was really wrecked a lot worse and never turned in to insurance. And now, my favorite thing: in the last couple thousand miles, it's started leaking oil. I've fixed everything I can. I'm sick of fixing the d*** thing. I was planning on keeping it and working with it. It's a lot better now than it was when I got it. And I know the oil leak is nothing major, probably just a gasket. But god, how much more can I take? I don't have a job. I have $19 in my bank account. I can't fix this thing any more. I look at it and I see a hopeless cause. I'm giving up on it. Here's my situation though. I've figured out a way that if I save up $5000 or so, I can get a new car (to be announced later... after my jobless a** comes up with $5000.) So somebody try to cheer me up and convince me to keep the Celica, or else I'm abandoning 6GC's for something better.

[richee3]

When I hit that deer, it was only body damage. I was going 30 and the deer hit the side of my car. But with the way it's going through struts and the wheels are always out of alignment, and I knew it's been wrecked, I had the frame checked when we had the deer damage repaired. The frame is fine. So I have no idea why the wheels keep going out of alignment or why it keeps screwing struts up. The reason I got rid of my first Celica was frame damage after I wrecked it. Unibody cars aren't worth fixing once you twist the chassis, in my opinion. But at any given time, my car needs $2000 in work.

TRD_Ian, I love 6th gens, but I've had 3 now. I think it's time for a change. The only Honda I would buy is an S2000.

Samir, it's just not worth getting another 6gc. I could buy a shell, but I could only swap a few things over from my car. I'd have to buy new struts, a new clutch... I'm not starting the list over again. But by the time I bought everything that needs to be replaced to put in the new shell, I would have been much better off to just buy a new car.

blu94gt, I am pretty close to the Lou. I'm about 2 hours away. But the thing is, I don't have the money to drive over there. I've been without a job since last August. And now I can't even get a job at McDonald's. That's just depressing.

I'm going to spend more than $5000 when I get a new car, but I just need the 5K to get started. I'd save that, sell my car for whatever it's worth, and get a loan for another $5000 and see where that gets me. I have a couple of cars in mind, but I don't want to say what they are. I'd rather just surprise everyone when I get one. Besides, I don't want to say I'm getting something then get something different. All I know is right now, I'm sick of fixing my car. It's got problems that are beyond fixing, and well beyond what the car is worth. I've hated it since the day I got it. And it doesn't help that I've had to pay this much to keep fixing it. I had plenty of money when I bought the car. But even when I still had a job, I went broke on paying for repairs. I'm sick of this thing.