Happy Birthday to Humdrum! :D

"RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars" (rallydarkstrike) 12/03/2019 at 07:53 • Filed to: Humdrum, Hyundai Acccent, Birthday

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It’s my car’s ‘birthday’ today! :D

I’m one of those weird people who forms a c onnection with their car and sortof things of it as ‘people’. :P

Despite the recent fiasco, I still really like this little car a lot. It’s been 99.99% reliable, peppy enough to still be fun (at least to me!), efficient to run, cheap to maintain and super practical.

The only time it started to act up (went down a cylinder), I was only a few kms from my garage and limped it there (bad coil-on-plug). The only other time was when the starter died....and, as it’s basic as hell and a manual, I just bump started it for an entire weekend, which was actually kindof amusing. :P

I’ve gone on many adventures with it...it’s been the first car of mine I’ve tried to do any work on myself...it’s the first car I modified myself.

Hope to get another while out of it at least...would love to move into a place with a garage in the interim. Maybe I could keep it around and pamper it long enough to be a ‘Radwood’ style car in a few years! :P

Here we were when I first picked it up used back in 2013 (with the Subaru she replaced in the background), and here’s one of my more recent pics from the summer.

Here’s to another few years little buddy! :)

pip bip - choose Corrour > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 12/03/2019 at 08:00

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happy birthday Humdrum!

E90M3 > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 12/03/2019 at 08:02

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Oppo is one of those weird places where it’s ok to love a 10 year old economy car, and I’m fine with that. 

Wacko > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 12/03/2019 at 08:02

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Does the frigid zone even give it a factory block heater? Or was that a dealer installed option.

My 2014 pathfinder is the only car I ever owned that had a factory block heater.  Every other car was a dealer installed option. And here in north western Quebec dealers automatically install them.  My forester was originally a Montreal car, so no block heater and is about 400$ to install one

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > pip bip - choose Corrour 12/03/2019 at 09:01

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I’ll pass it along! Humd rum is currently sitting in a block of freezing rain ice in the driveway...not the most dignified birthday...

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > E90M3 12/03/2019 at 10:03

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I am too! :D

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > Wacko 12/03/2019 at 12:46

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No factory block heater on my car! I think it was still an option, so not 100% sure what the ‘Frigid Zone’ package entails, to be honest!

Longtime Lurker > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 12/03/2019 at 20:21

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Sorry to break it too you but t hat’s march buddy. A vehicle produced in dec 2009 would be a 2010 my.

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > Longtime Lurker 12/03/2019 at 21:25

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You sure? I looked it up on a few other VIN decoders and they said December as well?

Longtime Lurker > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 12/03/2019 at 22:08

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Pretty sure.