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Subject At what point do you stop blaming fate and blame yourself?
     
Posted by Marshall on February 14, 2004 at 10:33 AM
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In Reply To God hates me AND my Z. Part II. Blew my motor. posted by WhiteOutZ on February 14, 2004 at 02:29 AM
     
Message "So I took off the DP and guess what I find? It had tilted into the turbo, grinding most of the Exhaust Turbine away into oblivion. OH MAN I thought, that SUCKS! So I put my precats back on, and tightened up my suspension"

"I get back in, leave the parking lot, and a horrible ticking noise starts. VERY LOUD, and the car is stumbling VERY bad and it wouldn't pull vacuum. So I went to a parking lot and tried to figure it out. It was pouring out, so I decided to drive it back, for better or worse. A 15 mile trip ahead of me I floored it in 3rd gear and it would not go past 3200rpm. So thats how I drove it"

"When I am a half mile from my place, I hear when sounds to be buckets of ball bearings dropping on my car. Just the worst metal-metal sounds you've ever heard, my oil pressure drops to zero, and it stumbles worse than before. I had trouble keeping it at 5 mph."

:In case anyone hasn't been following my recent misfortune posts, here is the run down of what has happened to my car in the past 3 days.
:I accidentally crack my High Mount tailight insert trying to plug it in. (Brand new.)

Doesn't sound like bad luck, sounds like carelessness causing things to break.

:Driver side splash panel catches wind and tears apart. (Brand new part)

I'm sure it's your fault, properly installed pieces don't just "catch wind and tear apart"

:Downpipe cracks, and falls into turbo destroying turbine blades. (10 month old DP's)

You drove it after that, you could have prevented further damage.

:Pistons falls aparts, destroying the pass. side turbo, and the whole entire engine. (there is a pool of oil/metal bits in my exhaust pipe =P )

Due to previous neglect.

:Now all I am waiting for is a meteorite to come smash my car. What next?

Dude, this isn't all bad luck you're explaining, you're causing most these things to happen. Don't you see the cause/effect relationship here? You drive a car on a damaged engine, then you seem surprised that it breaks. I don't call this bad luck, I call this really poor risk management.

     
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