Updates in the ongoing saga of my car...
I have a 2001 Acura CL Type-S. It is currently at the dealership getting a third transmission installed. The original transmission was replaced under warranty at ~78k miles. This factory rebuilt transmission is now being replaced after ~59k miles. Apparently, these replacement transmissions only have a warranty of something like 37k miles. That seems obscenely ridiculous to me. On top of this, my car has had all sorts of really unusual repairs, like the replacement of a sensor in the throttle body (or something like that), the rear view mirror that nearly blew up, a couple engine mounts that needed replacement, all of the injectors were replaced because, in the service advisor's words, "the seals are all gone," and the manifold gasket was replaced. On top of all that, I still occasionally get combustion fumes leaking into the cabin, which they haven't been able to solve.
The topper on all this is that my car is probably only worth about $5000. I have REALLY been wanting to get a new car these last couple years, largely because I am tired of dropping $2000/year on repairs for my car. So I've been saving up for a down payment... now this repair work is going to cut into that potential down payment significantly.
My Normal Car is seriously complicating My Normal Life.