100000 miles
I drove into work and crossed the 100,000 mile mark. The commute was horrible. I didn’t see it happen, but I knew it was going to, so I brought my camera and took a picture after I got to work. I am the original owner of the car. I still remember the day that I walked in purchased it. I had won a Landrover Discovery Series II from my company (digitalNATION). I sold it for a bunch of cash and purchased my Dodge Neon 2000 with some of it. The dealer wouldn’t let me drive off the lot until I came back with the rest of the cash the next day. Apparently, I had really bad credit and $9,000 wasn’t enough to make them feel confident that I would pay off the rest.
I told my coworker about it and he asked if I had any major problems with it. The only major problem I had was a recent one of replacing my sparkplug wires. Other then that, getting new tires usually hits me pretty hard every year. Half the time no one has tires that will fit my car so I usually end up calling ahead of time.
He was talking about the engine light and I told him that you could get a gadget at wal-mart for $100 to tell you the code that is triggering the engine light and turn it off. He popped his head over the cube and presented me a wire with an LED display on the end. Apparently, he got his ODB II Check Engine Scanner & Error Code Reader for just $30. I decided against buying one before because $100 was just a little too high. I’m having to rationalize if I should buy into one of these or not. It would have been a bit helpful in the past.