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Originally Posted by aircougar1
one time the whole exhaust system broke away from the manifold, and all I could do was hang it up with a metal wire hanger, and then get it home to wrap a aluminum food can around it with some clamps until i could afford to have a shop fix it...
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At least you did something. I drove by the area where this happened yesterday and he just left the exhaust and some other crap I didn't see before (heat shield maybe?) on the sidewalk. The decent (and correct) thing to do was to take what came off the car with you not leave it to someone else to deal with the trash. Like I said in my op, I understand that some times its hard to have a decent car (been there too) but when stuff starts to affect other people you have to take steps. I had a Saturd that liked to die at its whim. Whenever and where ever it did so, I got my ass out and pushed it out of traffic.
I have seen people who have stalled out or the car had stopped running for whatever reason just leave it where it died...halfway into a driveway with the rear out in traffic, in an intersection, in a turning lane at NIGHT without the hazards on in blizzard conditions and even facing the wrong way on the street. Is it too much to ask for someone to act responsibly? When the Cougar seems to have a problem, I get it checked out...not because I'm looking forward to spending several hundred dollars (the '00 I had got me for $1900+ once and while I had it, I sure as hell didn't want to spend it on the car) but because I don't want to get into or be the cause of an accident for something that should have been taken care of.