Tag: Saturn Ion 3
A Change of Direction
I was surprised to discover this morning that our one-way street had reversed direction overnight. Well, it wasn’t a big surprise really. The city had sent me a letter explaining the plan and polling our opinion, but I never mailed the form back in. After mulling it over a while I thought it might not […]
Read More → A Change of DirectionNon-Starter (part five in a series)
Here’s a new twist on an old theme. Because of our intermittent no-crank no-start problem, Xy has taken to going out early on cold mornings and giving the car a test start. This was such a morning. It was about 36ยบ F out there. But the car started up, no problem. But twenty minutes later, […]
Read More → Non-Starter (part five in a series)Non-Starter (part four in a series)
Here we go again. It was probably the coldest morning of the season so far. No crank, no start. Xy was pissed, and I can’t blame her. It was her turn to drive for the carpool. Two co-workers were depending on her. Fortunately they were able to switch it up at the last minute. Of […]
Read More → Non-Starter (part four in a series)Non-Starter
This morning the car wouldn’t start again. Only three weeks since the last time. Cocking the wheel didn’t help. Nothing helped. I waited about five or ten minutes, and it started right up. I don’t think this is related to the colder weather, because when it didn’t start on the 9th the low was only […]
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We bought a car yesterday. It’s a 2005 Saturn Ion 3. It has about 11,000 miles on it and cost us about $10,000. It’s bright white. The dealership gave us only $300 for our old 1998 Saturn SL1, about what we expected for a car with a severe engine problem. I hate the car shopping […]
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