Yahoo Autos These Were Your Automotive Low Points of 2022
Ford Fiesta: Gone, but not forgotten.
2022, what a year. It’s had ups, like the moment Marcus Ericsson won the Indy 500, and it had downs, like the never-ending shenanigans at Elon Musk’s flip book full of companies.
Did you have a good year? Good. If not, then Jalopnik is here for you. Together, we thought that the old saying “a problem shared is a problem halved” could help alleviate some of your stresses at the year’s end. So, we turned to you and asked for your automotive low points from the past year in an attempt to share out the load on our collective mind.
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Here are some of the moments you shared.
RIP Cross Members
“I touched a front cross member in my 02 WRX bug-eye wagon while doing my brakes and it crumbled into dust. It’s gone, man. $500 OEM part, but I don’t know how everything it’s attached to is doing (lots of rust in this baby). I think she’s done.”
It’s tough saying goodbye to a car you love, maybe you can figure out a way to save her?
Suggested by: fredschwartz
It Doesn’t Rain, but It Pours
“When my truck needed a new clutch, my VW head gasket went and I had to buy a Mitsubishi Mirage to get around.”
Problems are like buses: You wait ages for one to show up, and then three come along at once.
Suggested by: Michael N. Laughlin (Facebook)
How Long Have You Got?
“I drive a nearly 30 year old Land Rover by choice. I’d have to attach a spreadsheet for 2022.
“The big one was the piston letting go and going through the sides of the block.”
Maybe I should have narrowed this question down to just people driving ‘round in products from Jaguar Land Rover? We could have had slides for days!
Suggested by: waveridin1959
Engines, Engines and More Engines
“When my @AudiOfficial Used B9 A4 S-line six-speed Quattro went through not one, but fricken two engines... I’m looking for a third... loved it right up until I saw…”
Three engines in a year! That’s almost impressive. But seriously, we all here at Jalopnik feel for you in these trying times.
Suggested by: @mawhbajan (Twitter)
Engine and More
“Getting surprise-laid off with my 944 engine split in half probably takes the cake here. After months of being told ‘oh, no, you guys are safe, there should be no further cuts,’ welp, I’m the one who got cut in the middle of doing some cylinder head work.
“Any hopes of making it to the race I was planning to go to in November were immediately off. The rebuild is still humming along at a slower pace thanks to friends chipping in and parts that were already purchased, but to say it was an extreme suck after not being able to hop back into Lemons racing for a couple years is a massive understatement.”
Well, that’s a tough year! Hopefully you can get the 944 up and running soon and make 2023 your year.
Suggested by: stefschrader
No Swapsies
“Convincing myself that selling my one owner, low mileage, Texas owned its entire life, 2001 Yukon and getting a Kia Soul to save money on fuel was a good idea 🤦🏻♂️ It took me three years to find that d@mn GMC 😭 Now I got another newer GMC Sierra, but I’m stuck with the Kia too.”
But, did the Kia help you save on fuel?
Suggested by: Ryan Dorrell (Facebook)
Break Ins
“My year started out with suck. On the last night of vacation (New Years day evening) my car was broken into in a hotel parking lot in Nashville. It was a 35ish degree rainy day which ruined the last day of my parents vacation down to see me. I got some ‘clear’ (it was basically opaque) plastic to tape over the window to get me two hours home, took the dealership two days to get me a piece of glass.
“Then I asked the dealer to let me know when the door is apart so I can clean it out super well and make sure no more glass is rattling around in there....they promised me it would be cleaned out completely... it wasn’t.
“So now my passenger door has glass rattling around in it. The car was barely a year old at this point, now barely two. I would take it all apart and clean it myself but the regulator and all is built into the inner door panel so the glass has to be removed to take that panel off and clean it. The fear of breaking that glass is keeping me from getting in there.”
A break-in and now a rattly door, that’s rough.
Suggested by: thomas-hinkemeyer
