[DreamingOfSpeed]

I did it. I bought an 2005 Kia Sorento from carmax and traded in the SVX. She just plain had too many problems and issues for me to keep up with. Most recently a transmission line broke which I fixed but after finding it I accidentally overfilled the transmission which caused the seal between the transmission and front diff to fail and let massive amounts of fluid to push into the diff. The transmission was slipping in third gear and becoming weak in all gears (I just had it rebuilt in Oct of 2006 and Completely replaced a year before that). The diff suffered ill consequences from the extreme overfilling of light oil. The underside of the car was a mess, the trans oil was everywhere and actually turned the body coating to black goo that we determined was highly flammable. The body had a half million dings from one of the neighbors kids riding their bike down the side, and 4 BB shots to the passenger door, and a large dent and rust patch on the opposite fender. I bearing for the air conditioner pulley seized a while back and ruined the air conditioning and damaged the front of the motor (Huge hole in the timing belt cover)

I just cant keep up with it. Every time I turned around it had a problem. I'm graduating college in a few weeks and need something that can get me back and forth to work without a hassle.

They gave me $750, which was $500 less than I wanted and I probably could have gotten more if I had sold it myself but I just didn't want to deal with leaving my problems to someone else. I hope she finds a good home, I am actually a little worried but I just remember she's been to two other auctions before I picked her up and she was just as rough around the edges then as she is now. It was hardly drive able the day I brought her home so hopefully someone decides they love it too much to pass up on and takes good care. So if anyone picks up a pearlie from SC with BB gun shots and mismatched rims (3 light silver, 1 grey) That's my baby, take good care of her.