People whose cars have died "naturally," how did it die?

some jerkoff in a 18 wheeler was someplace he wasn't supposed to be and when he was making a turn his trailer front corner tore my car in literal half. Does this count as natural?

Might have some hidden far away. That was back in 2010

its a shame though. Although a crossover it was my first car and I was really enjoying it. So many fond memories.

Catastrophic transmission failure at a steady 70 mph cruise killed my '93 Ranger. It was a rusty piece of shit that would've cost thousands more than it was worth to save but I loved that truck, still miss it.

Sorry for your loss, but I doubt it counts as "natural" in the context of this thread.

true

"murdered"

Dude murdered is the nice way to say it. It was massacred. It looked like a soda can that someone took a brick too. It was literally fucked up.

use this as a reference

jej soz

2000 lancer coupe, one of the exhaust valves got toasted and the cylinder lost all vacuum or pressure or something. can't remember, it was a few years back. didn't bother buying another engine or trying to fix it, just sent it to the scrap heap.

It's people like you that make old cars disappear forever.

good

>Buy MR2 AW11
>Everyone says they're super reliable
>Take mine out on a 1000 mile road trip after owning it for 3 trouble-free months
>3 hours from my destination it spins a bearing
>Turns out there was an oil leak that wasn't making it to the ground but instead leaking down onto lots of shit that was hard to see
>oil dipstick never read low any time I checked (every fuel-up)

I was pissed but then I bought an SW20 N/A and it's been fine aside from some really stupid recurring alignment issues.

Damn man, look on the bright side though you're still here

Trans failure on a 93 ZJ, 297k miles on road and off. It only had little patches of rust on the roof and diffs.

Glorious truck, I miss it more than ever because of all the overpriced, shit-tier reliability trucks for sale today.

Forgot to mention, it was the 4.0 I6 of course.

251,000 miles and the transmission finally began fucking up, scrapped her rather than spending the $1100 on a fucking junkyard trans, wasn't worth it knowing something in that poor abused 3.4l was bound to go next.

>I miss it

Relevant thread, the clutch in my 1986 Corolla let go last Monday. Not sure if it's really worth fixing it to be honest.

>Scrapping a car because the clutch has gone

It'll be $300 in parts + an entire weekend or two to fix it. The car itself is worth maybe $1300 at best, and has a lot of other stuff that needs fixing as well, the radio sucks, doesn't have any modern amenities, etc.

I bought a cheap $2k runabout to replace it for the meantime to get me to and from work, 2003 Corolla, and in any metric other than "fun" and "character", it's a better car than my old clunker. And besides, I have a weekend car if I want to have fun.

It's an Acura my man

If you care so much about old cars, go buy buy them. Buyers don't have to care if it hurts you or not.

>transmission died = car died
kek

>bought my used shitbox for pennies
>replaced rear axle after it broke
>replaced tranny after it broke
>many smaller problems on the way like broken radiator fan, broken front suspension bearing thingies
>still going strong now
>will probably have to replace tranny again soon because i bought shitty, whining one for something around $50 and it started whining on different frequencies after two 500km trips

mechanical failure is nothing more than a minor setback

Previous owner did a shitty silicon gasket job on the oil pan. Got sucked up into the pickup screen and starved the car of oil. Not even 100k. I'm gonna just pick up a new motor and swap them out, maybe then do an autopsy.

This wouldn't have happened if the tranny had direct injection

I had a car that the door eventually rusted enough where it wouldnt open. i started using the window (was a 2 door) and sold it right before the next winter.

listen to this bullshit
>early 00's chrysler cirrus
>slight problems here and there but no major signs
>riding along at highway speeds
>battery was slowly conking out
>fried a couple sensors
>ECU/TCM goes into "limp mode", limited to 2nd gear only
>fucking car downshifts to 2nd at 70mph
>just about the entire powertrain shits itself

I live in the rust belt too, but holy shit. Probably never washed during winter or ever.

holy shit

What the fuck

2002 chevy s10 with 230k miles. cracked engine block

You like seeing cars die?
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No, its people like this.
google.com/amp/www.hotrod.com/articles/old-car-city-usa-is-full-of-abandoned-muscle-cars-and-classics/amp/

I drive a 17 year old maxima and I will be making at least 75k next year and I plan to keep it until student loans are paid off.

Kill you are self

>91 civic with 160k auto trans dies
>buy trans for $300 shipped off ebay

runs and drives great again

>OPs appliance tier honda doesn't really matter but classics shouldn't be scrap

Washing your car in the winter does little if anything to prevent rust.

Nigger what. It's all the salt and moisture that rusts it. Getting all the shit off, drying it thoroughly, and keeping it clayed and waxed is crucial.

2002 jetta.
Almost monthly it had something go wrong or breaking. Ac never worked for more than a week. Vents blew out the foam duct lining. All the glue that held the trim together melted off. Sun roof leaked when it rained.

Two years into owning it the exhaust system backed up. Misfired and ran on 2 of its 6 cylinders. After giving it one good flooring to get off the road after a red light the catalytic converter blew out. Had it towed off from the gas station parking lot. Took it to my buddy's shop and told them just enough to get it running again (less than $300 of work was done. No way it's passing inspections for registration renewal) . About a week later dropped it off at carmax and got $5000 for it. Even with all the issues it had they insisted it was in need of a routine tuneup.

Learned a lesson. Never buy a pre owned car from a woman. Even it's a fist car right out of high school and it only needs get you around university campus.

The salt is hygroscopic so it attracts moisture from the air. If you flush the water off the metal there is nothing to attract the moisture that causes rust.

>Never buy a car from a woman
Also never buy a VW older than 4 years unless it is a classic beetle. Fucking Germans and their electronics.

Oddly enough the electric stuff was still good. Only one time I had the electric system malfunction light come on and it turned out to be a problem with the maf. Somehow the hood liner that was falling apart managed to get into the connection and was fucking it up.

I've never auctually had a car die completely by itself the closest I've ever got is this. I had an old Geo metro back in '08 that had an engine fire due to a fuel leak while I was on the freeway, It still drove for three days after I put new fuel lines on it until I could afford a tarus to replace it, but at that point it did drive, but it would just billow smoke from the exhaust+ under the hood, and leak fuel constantly while running. Pretty sure it had destroyed fuel lines + a blown gasket, but I could never get it to auctually stop running.

i spend 500$ on rust repairs and even more on maintanence on a car worth not even half that money.