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New Car for Sheila

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Sheila's new car! Sheila's 2000 Buick LeSabre has been slowly crumbling away over the past year or so.  The engine is great, the fuel economy is as good as most new cars, it drove well in the snow and it has been very reliable but the frame and everything underneath has been corroding away due to years of exposure to road salt.   The car has a slow fuel leak...  the brake lines are soft and in need of replacing but there is no area of chassis solid enough to hold the new brake lines... the car's jack can no longer lift the car because the frame where the jack is supposed to lift the car crumbles when you touch it... and, we've been delaying a much needed replacement of brake rotors because we knew this car is at the end of its life so we were avoiding spending some hard-earned money needlessly.  As a result, we've been searching online for a new car for the past few weeks. Neither one of us really cares for car shopping.  Actually, we both hate