Maybe I Can Drive My Car

Within the next few weeks, I will hopefully have a new car.  There's still a chance that I won't, but considering the shape of my current, I hope not.  I've been seriously looking for the past few months. Okay, it is ac tally closer to a year or two.  What can I say, I have very strict standards. It only took two weeks to get my first car, but that was when I needed one almost immediately.  I had two dealerships competing to get me the exact model I wanted.  It could have ben the exact same one.  I loved that car, even with all the problems I had with it.  I had the bumper smashed by unknown means within a year or so.  One of the manual windows developed a problem, and it had to be fixed so that it could work.  I had a two-door, so the windows had to lower.  The main problem was with the computer.  All of a sudden, my car wouldn't start properly.  When they thought they had the problem fixed, I tried driving it off the lot.  The engine would die on me every few dozen yards.  I had to start it back up multiple times to get to where my mother was waiting and then find a way to get it towed back to the dealership for the problem to actually be fixed.  When I finally decided on my second car, after a month or so of looking, I was driving it to my store before picking up the new one.  About a mile or two from the store, the break failure light came on.  Fortunately, they brakes worked well enough to get to the store.  Unfortunately, my mother had to drive the car to the dealership to get it the breaks fixed, and she would up being the first one to drive my new car.  I never could feel as comfortable with that car because of that.  What's worse, we wound up paying for the repairs, instead of the man we were selling the old one too, even though he had offered to do so.  That car would have its fair share of problems too.  At least two of the power windows would tear up.  It was a four-door, so there were more windows to have problems.  I hydroplaned down a hill and into a lawn ornament, causing damage to the rear bumper, because someone was watering their lawn and it ran onto the road.  Took forever to get it fixed, as well as figuring out a way to get to work while waiting for it to be repaired.  At least it was still in working order when I finally got a new car, from a different dealership, although they were a little angry when I forgot to mention that accident.  My current car has had quite a few problems, as well.  I've kept it two years longer than my previous ones.  It's just so hard finding something I like and afford that also has the exact features I need.  Don't get me wrong, I do like my current car, even though I could never get the headrest to fit me properly.  The windshield had to be replaced, twice.  The transmission failed for no discernible reason.  The brake pads have had to be replaced more often than in my other cars.  The battery had to be replaced rather frequently.  The heating/cooling system has had multiple random failures, including having a motor whir at odd times and near constant clicking whenever certain doors are opened, for about thirty seconds.  The tire pressure monitors keep failing.  Once, a monitor said a tire was flat, even when it wasn't.  While driving to a garage to have the tire checked, the monitor went from flat to full pressure to even higher and everything in between.  During a recent opportunity for an OnStar free trial, I found out that the antenna was broken, and I would be unable to start the service. Oh, one of the windows recently had to be fixed so that it would stay up.  There is so much going wrong with my car, that I won't be able to get a new one if I have all of the current problems fixed.  I need a new car.