Do You Ever Wonder What happened to your old car?

[DawnCt1]

After you traded it in? I had on star on my old car and would get a monthly diagnostics report. I also have it on my new car. They never switched the email on my old car so I get monthly updates. It sat on the lot for a long time, perhaps over 4 months. Then I noticed that the mileage started ticking up and the oil life was diminishing. Now it has 60K and they need to make an appointment to change the oil soon. He has got 9% left. Who ever it is has used up his on star phone minutes and his tire pressure is not monitored.

 

[SandrA9810]

That's funny.

It would be cool to see the life of your old car these days. I know my aunt drove a camero for years and years. They said the car was a lost (traded it in, but too old to be sold), and that the body would probably wind up on a race car or something.

 

[AKL_Megs]

After you traded it in? I had on star on my old car and would get a monthly diagnostics report. I also have it on my new car. They never switched the email on my old car so I get monthly updates. It sat on the lot for a long time, perhaps over 4 months. Then I noticed that the mileage started ticking up and the oil life was diminishing. Now it has 60K and they need to make an appointment to change the oil soon. He has got 9% left. Who ever it is has used up his on star phone minutes and his tire pressure is not monitored.

You are so lucky you still get to track your "baby"!

Mine was a VERY undesirable car, but I had had it for almost 10 years. I cried, in my brand new beauty, as I turned and gave my paint peeled and rusty old car one last look. I know they scrapped her.

 

[DawnCt1]

This is the first car we ever traded in that had an "after life". We always ran them into the ground or gave them to a DS. I never parted with a car with less than 50K but I really wanted an AWD for winter.

 

[hereyago]

A couple of my cars: 1 car I gave to my mechanic, he was the best mechanic. He and my df would barter favors, so I would pay for a part and he would do labor for free, or if he couldnt do the job, he would tell me who to go to.

So, I had ordered my first new new car and I gave him my turbo Daytona, it was 2 years old and I had a lot of work done on it as part of me buying it as the previous owner didnt take care of it. Ihave it for many years. My new car came in and myDF followed me to the mechanics house and I cried, his wife cried because she knew I loved that car, but I wanted him to have it and i knew he would take care of it. Some time later, he was in my old car and a drunk driver hit him, the car was totaled and he became disabled and had to stop working on cars.

Years later, and my next car after the Daytona. A dodge avenger, I had it for many years, it was white and i put 2 big black racing stripes down it. at that time, I wanted to me noticed. I traded it in for the car I have now. BUT: I have seen my old car a couple times.

And I have named every car i have had.

 

[disykat]

I once saw a lady getting out my old vehicle and tried to start a friendly conversation as I walked past to tell her that I had owned it. She was clearly NOT interested. (I was a mom with a couple kids with me and were walking into a McDonald's - so I don't think I scared her or anything.)

I thought that was odd. I would have been interested - not in a protracted conversation, but interested enough to shoot the breeze for a moment as we walked past.

 

[DawnCt1]

I once saw a lady getting out my old vehicle and tried to start a friendly conversation as I walked past to tell her that I had owned it. She was clearly NOT interested. (I was a mom with a couple kids with me and were walking into a McDonald's - so I don't think I scared her or anything.)

I thought that was odd. I would have been interested - not in a protracted conversation, but interested enough to shoot the breeze for a moment as we walked past.

I would have been interested. Some people are just unfriendly.

 

[npmommie]

I once saw my old car driving thru town. I know it was my old car because of a distinctive sticker I put on it.
I wasn't able to say anything since we were both driving at the time and I didn't want to gesture to the person

 

[hereyago]

I once saw a lady getting out my old vehicle and tried to start a friendly conversation as I walked past to tell her that I had owned it. She was clearly NOT interested. (I was a mom with a couple kids with me and were walking into a McDonald's - so I don't think I scared her or anything.)

I thought that was odd. I would have been interested - not in a protracted conversation, but interested enough to shoot the breeze for a moment as we walked past.

WHen I first got my Daytona. I was in a parking lot with the windows down-no electric windows, but doors locked. This guy comes up on the passenger side and starts this conversation about his friend had a car that looked just like mine, but got rid of it. I was like, well if this was his car he didn't know how to take care of it. then the guy proceeds to tell me how unsafe it is to have the windows rolled down,and tried to open the door as anyone could get in the car. and he had a creepy vibe to him all ready. I was like" well i keep my doors locked and i always carry this with me-it was a knife and he left. Disclaimer: I had the knife because when I was in high school, we had a rash of rapes near my school, so i always kept one in the car.

 

[Carly_Roach]

Do you ever wonder what happened to your old car? After you traded it in?

Nope.

 

[MushyMushy]

I think about my old cars all the time! Never have seen one or found out what happened to any of them.

My dad has a 1946 Ford sedan that my grandfather bought new off the lot. My dad owns it now and I'll own it after that, then probably give it to one of my kids. I'm wondering how long we'll be able to maintain that car.

 

[Cindy B]

When I was a young college student, my dad bought me a 1970 Ford Maverick with a rusty blue exterior. I put a small dent on the right side. I gave it away-- it didnt run and I didn 't have the money to fix it.

Flash forward about 5 years later. I was in a neighboring state at an IKEA parking lot-- there it was-- my 1970 Ford Maverick. The exterior was the same and the dent was still there!

 

[lovetoscrap]

I got my first car when I started college. Several years later I was in a restaurant interviewing for a hostess position and the District Manager walked in and said "Who owns that blue Cavalier in the lot?" I thought something bad had happened. I said me and he came over and said "That was my car!" We had a nice talk, and he told me about the strange dent in the back that I wondered about.

And I got the job.

 

[disykat]

WHen I first got my Daytona. I was in a parking lot with the windows down-no electric windows, but doors locked. This guy comes up on the passenger side and starts this conversation about his friend had a car that looked just like mine, but got rid of it. I was like, well if this was his car he didn't know how to take care of it. then the guy proceeds to tell me how unsafe it is to have the windows rolled down,and tried to open the door as anyone could get in the car. and he had a creepy vibe to him all ready. I was like" well i keep my doors locked and i always carry this with me-it was a knife and he left. Disclaimer: I had the knife because when I was in high school, we had a rash of rapes near my school, so i always kept one in the car.

Yikes! Certainly a different experience than a middle aged housewife with two little kids who are pointing and jumping up and down saying "look mom, it's our old car!"

 

[daughtersrus]

Nothing quite exciting as that but I often wonder what happened to my '78 Camaro with T-tops that I traded in for a new '86 Mercury Cougar.

Although she never saw it in person, my DD20yo still bugs me about it. If it was still here, she's much rather be driving that then the '90 Olds Delta 88 Royal that her grandfather gave to her. I can see her now, driving down the road in a yellow Camaro that is 12years older than her with her hair blowing in the wind.

 

[Mimi1965]

My first car was a lemon and the person who bought it got my name from paperwork left in it and callled me- she was a distant cousin! Told her the problems I had with it

 

[disneykidatheart]

We sold a car that was about six years old to a student at our college. I would see the car around town from time to time and parked at the married student housing too. I lost track of the car and figured they moved on. Lo and behold it started showing up parked at Walmart where employees would park. Again it disappeared for a time. The last time I saw it, the car was parked in my very own neighborhood while the owner visited a neighbor. This was over a period of about five years. I often thought we should have kept that car. It seemed to have a lot of life in it.

 

[cassiez76]

i had a '96 purple geo metro hatchback (egg). i loved that car. but it was about 6 or 7 and the a/c kept going out. bad when you live in new orleans.

so my mom took it (who didn't drive much) and i got an '03 saturn vue. what a lemon! anyways, when my dad died, my mom took his car and i gave my egg to my friend who needed a car.

6 months later, katrina hit. my egg took on some water and her cousins were supposed to fix it up. about 10 months after katrina, i'm on the interstate and there is my egg. i knew it was mine from the college sticker i put on it. friend also went there, so she left it.

turns out that her cousin didn't fix the egg and drove it with a bad engine to miami beach. it died. so the egg retired to miami beach....where i hope to retire one day!

i should never have gotten the saturn vue and kept my egg!

 

[Bilberry]

That's funny. I'm still getting used to On-Star and the e-mails. It just feels strange to have the car e-mailing me about it's tire pressure and oil levels!

Never really looked back and wondered about a former car all that much. New is nicer I guess. My father is completely different though. He enjoys telling stories of the cars of his youth.

 

[EllNat11]

We sold my first car - had been in the family for 12 years. A year later I was driving through town and saw it - smashed into a mangled mess sitting in the parking lot of the local mechanic - i was devastated!

I know it wasn't mine anymore - but still! The driver walked away with minimal injuries - which is more important, but tears welled up with that one!