The Two Year Anniversary Report

[Ron Mummert]

Greetings everyone. Tomorrow is the 2 year anniversary date of the purchase of my '92. The car looks remarkably similar to the way it did then, as I bought on a snowy day, & it was caked with road salt, just like is right now. I did a report at the one year point, so I may as well continue the tradition. I've put 33,100 miles on the beast in two years. The clock now reads 111,833K. Pretty "average" miles in today's mega-commute society. She's garaged & totally stock except for a K & N air filter, a straight pipe resonator replacement & a B & M tranny cooler. I use her as a daily driver & mostly used my van as a weekend go-fer. I took her on two long trips of over 3K each. I've documented a couple of maintenance incidents here already, so I'll spare the reruns.

Point of all this is that OTHER than one wheel bearing, all other repairs were "routine" in my opinion & nothing out of line with the money commonly thrown at any 10 year old machine. Everything on the car functions properly. I'm not counting a few blown dash lights, but the antenna goes up & down, the auto-seat belt still knocks coffee out of my grasp, the CD never skips & one tap opens the sunroof. The visors only sag about half an inch, & yes, there's some front rotor warpage that I'm ignoring 'til it's new pad time. Incidentally, the front pads are the original from purchase date & still have 50% left.

So.... despite placing the ultimate jinx on the Batmobile by pushing the "submit" key, I just think some of you may want to know that it IS possible to achieve a state of relative equilibrium with these cars.

I wish all of you a trouble-free SVX year!

Ron (all digits in crossing pattern).