I am Austindude

Do you believe that somebody can be cursed? No? Well after you read this, you certainly will. My carma stinks. I mean it really smells like decomposing animal bodies. I just got ANOTHER engine replaced on the RX-8 (the car is on it’s 3rd engine).

Since I got my license at 21, I have had nothing but bad luck with cars. My first car was a 1996 Acura Integra LS, which I purchased in late 2001. I owned the car for 2 years and had nothing but trouble that entire time.

When I bought it the passenger side of the windshield was shattered - it literally looked like an ex-girlfriend took a bat to the windshield and beat the shit out of it, for finding her b/f screwing around on her. I think that pain and anguish was somehow transferred to the car. (Anybody ever seen or read Christine?)

• In the first 5 minutes of owning it, a guy backed into me. The guy who sold it to me came running outside and was laughing. I was still in the parking lot where I purchased it.  
• The car was broken into 3 times while parked in front of my buddy Joseph’s house. 3 stereos were removed, and one time I had the factory alarm enabled and somehow it didn’t go off.  
• I was in 3 accidents (none were my fault, and this doesn’t count the one where the dude backed into me after first purchasing it). One of them was a hit-and-run on MLK, that was pretty bad. I swear people aim right for me.   
• When I bought it the car had a dent in the rear driver-side door. I bought a door on Ebay that was the same color and looked awesome. Shipping cost more than the door itself. (hundreds) I got the door and brought it to Caliber Collision. The door looked great on the outside, but it was actually useless. Below some of the paint was a ton of putty. That was a complete waste of money, so I just had them repair the door I already had on there haha. So I paid basically double to get the door fixed.  
• When the car was in the shop after one of the wrecks, I had a rental. I decided not to get the extra insurance. Hail promptly commenced and damaged the rental badly, and State Farm subsequently dropped me.  
• I first sold the car to a random lady on a payment plan, who I trusted and should not have. I got royally screwed on that one. (It’s quite a lengthy and funny story, but I’ll save it for another time.) Basically I only got $1000 out of $4200 and she got to drive it for 9 months for that $1000. Karma caught up with her and magically I got the car back.  
• In late 2003 I buy a brand new 2004 RX-8 and am happy to rid myself of the cursed car. But OH the curse isn’t ready to stop. Oh not by a long-shot.  
• After dropping the car off at the dealership for it’s first oil change, I get a call from the service department. Apparently there was “a mishap with your vehicle.” Ok… a little oil spilled on one of the seats, I thought. HAHA no. Another RX-8 was backed into the front of mine and crushed the front right side, including the whole headlight casing and fender.  
• One morning I woke up to find somebody had side-swiped the rear passenger fender. There’s a dent/scrape on it.  
• One night, a friend up north told me a huge hail storm was coming my way. Joseph and I ran out to throw towels and blankets all over the top of the car to protect it. The next morning I survey the car and damnit there’s hail damage! What’s funny is that we had 3 more hail storms after that one, and I didn’t bother throwing towels or blankets on the car for those, and there was NO DAMAGE at all from those haha. I can’t make this stuff up.  
• I have had 2 speeding tickets and a ticket for running a red-light at 3am. I was waiting at the light for at least 5 minutes and thought it was just broken. While I was taking defensive driving for one of my speeding tickets, I got the other speeding ticket on the way to Houston.  
• I got out of class one morning at Texas State, and somebody had side-swiped the SAME rear fender that was side-swiped a couple of years ago. This was damaged much worse than before. The person left no note, or anything.  
• At 33,000miles I had to get the engine replaced on the RX-8. It was stalling, idling very rough, having bad loss of power.  
• Mazda called me to let me know the car was ready to be picked up. I hopped in the rental Dodge Caravan, turned the corner and BLAMMO some lady ran the stop sign and plowed into the side of the Caravan. She said she didn’t see me. HOW THE HELL CAN YOU MISS A DODGE CARAVAN?? Ever since the rental car hail-damage issue I have always gotten the extra insurance. But guess what? Since nothing had happened since then, I decided NOT to get the extra insurance while using the Caravan. The only two times I don’t get the extra insurance, bad things happen to the rental cars. JESUS.  
• At 48,500miles the RX-8 start acting exactly as it did at 33,000miles. I take it into Mazda and they say I need a new engine. So not even 50,000 miles into the car and I am on my 3rd engine. I am sure I shouldn’t ask this, but what the hell else could go wrong?