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Yesterday, right as I rolled into Zombieland, the odometer on the lemon struck 100,000.\u00a0 This is now the third car I’ve now pushed over the 100,000 mile plateau.\u00a0 Granted only one of them was genuinely my own 100,000 (and 200,000) miles, but for what it’s worth, my current car, the lemon, is now\u00a0officially<\/i><\/span>\u00a0considered worthless, as many cars are seen as damaged goods once they start utilizing the sixth digit.<\/span><\/p>\n And in my case, as evidenced by the ominously glowing check engine light that I’m flicking off, the lemon\u00a0actually is\u00a0<\/i><\/span>damaged goods at this point.\u00a0 Later on today, I’m taking my car into, of all places, the\u00a0steal<\/i><\/span>ership, because I’m tired of local, independent mechanics not knowing what to do with my car, and I’m blindly putting faith in the notion that Mazda mechanics that work at a Mazda dealership’s service shops, might\u00a0actually<\/i><\/span>\u00a0know what to do with my Mazda.\u00a0 To add to the irony of the whole situation, I went and got the diagnostic code pulled from an AutoZone, which came out to be P0421 – in Mazda-speak it means catalytic converter problem, or something breathing related, as it pertains to the engine.\u00a0 To which the added irony is that such symptoms was what my old car’s check engine light was coming up as.<\/span><\/p>\n Either way, congraturation to me, for driving around yet another car with a billion miles on it again.\u00a0 As great as it would be for this one to also reach another 100,000 miles, I sure as shit wouldn’t bank on it.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yesterday, right as I rolled into Zombieland, the odometer on the lemon struck 100,000.\u00a0 This is now the third car I’ve now pushed over the 100,000 mile plateau.\u00a0 Granted only one of them was genuinely my own 100,000 (and 200,000) miles, but for what it’s worth, my current car, the lemon, is now\u00a0officially\u00a0considered worthless, as … Continue reading Here we go again<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[51,45,15],"class_list":["post-28548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-cars","tag-fail","tag-og"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28550,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28548\/revisions\/28550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}