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Last year we gave my 16 year old the 940 for her first car since it had over 260k miles and was a little tired. Some door rust meant body work and a paint job if we decided to keep the car so how much damage could a little girl do...right?
I rebuilt a 95 Isuzu Rodeo for her and signed the title over last week so she would not have to drive the "old person's" car any longer, and set out this weekend trying to clean the old 940 up a bit. The first thing was the shifter having all of the rubber peeled off, a whole compact of whatever brown powder girls use on their faces dumped in the console, crap in the seat runners jamming the mechanism, the door pockets kicked out, seats ripped, and the list goes on.
I took the shifter and tray out of the 780 (since that is going manual)and swapped it into the 940. I found out then that the shifter stabilizer wasn't used on the 940 and I had to make one for the 780 shifter to work. That finally came together and works like new, nice and crisp, so I re-aligned the front end, changed a tire, patched the seats with duct tape (prior to putting seat covers on), removed the front driver's seat and cleaned the rails thoroughly, fixed the center console drink holder which was broken off, then drove it down I-77 about thirty miles this AM to check on some work.
I was absolutely amazed at how nice it is on the road! It has been a couple of years since I did more than drive it around the block after working on it, and the drive this AM was a very pleasant surprise. With the gas struts and shocks that I installed a couple of years back, the car is very tight on the road and also very quiet. The air is still cold and the gas consumption is fairly low. I might just have to keep this one around for a while.
Regards,
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