Yesterday, when I was driving from Kalgoorlie to Perth, the car has been acting up a lot again. I gave some people from the hostel a lift into another part of the town and the car has been positively bucking. One of them apparently knows something about cars and he said he thinks, that she is not getting enough fuel.

So maybe the fuel-pipe is blocked or something similarly stupid, I don't know. It seems likely since I'd find it hard to believe if it was yet another electrical problem. You know, sometimes I hit the gas really hard but nothing happens! And I have to rev her very high when I switch gears and even then she'd be jumping around on the street a lot. It's really unnerving.

Keep it or get rid of it?

Anyhow: I drove her to the dealer I bought it from today and told him that overall I was not very happy with my purchase. I was a bit afraid that he might simply shrug and tell me to get lost - which he could have done. But he said that I should come tomorrow morning and he'd have someone take a look at it or else drive it down to a garage he knows. But I have to admit that I'm seriously starting to thnk about whether it might not simply be better to get rid of the bloody car once and for all. I mean, so far I'm not really having the best of times in Australia and I think that my car-troubles have a fair bit to do with that. Maybe I should simply buy a "decent" car for around 9.000 AUD from a proper dealer and sell this when I get to the East Coast. I even spoke to the big Holden Dealer in town today and they even have a van that would do quite nicely. They also buy my old car but unfortunately will only give me a few hundred bucks for it. Personally I think I can do better if I sell it to a car-wrecker.

Basically I think I have three options right now:

1. Try to get the current problem fixed and continue with the car as it is.
   
2. Sell the car to the Holden dealer and buy an expensive car from him.
   
3. Try to sell the car back to the guy who sold it to me and buy a new car from the Holden dealer.
   

The big question is of course: Will I be able to get my money back on the eastcoast if I sell the car in three months to a dealer there? Cause if I can then I'm really only looking at a loan and not an expense, right? And the aussie-dollar just dropped again to the Euro. I'd say that I can get most of my money back but not all of it. So I'd loose money on it. On the positive side I'd have a car that would run and I'd have a warranty so that I wouldn't have to worry about the bloody thing any longer and it'd be much more fuel efficient. I did some rough maths and if I'm driving the distance I intend to drive then I'd probably save sth. like 1.000 AUD just on fuel. 500 AUD, really, since I assume that I'll have someone to share the costs with. Still, 500 AUD is 500 AUD.

Ah, decisions, decisions - what do you think?