Did you ever buy a lemon of a car. You had one thing go wrong and very soon another did. Or they would say that they

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16. Used car but it was a bit of a lemon

I was stationed in Germany in the mid-80s and needed a car. There was a used '82 Volvo GL240 for sell at a local insurance agency just outside of the base. I was interested in it and I talked to one of our German civilian employees who was trained as a mechanic. He checked out the car for me and said he'd buy it if he could afford it, which he couldn't. I bought it and it ran great, until I took it to England, where I was transferred, two years later. Sometimes, in the mornings, the car wouldn't start. Not even the clicking noise when the battery is low. I had a new battery in it so I knew that wasn't the problem. I had the local Volvo dealer tow it to their lot, When they tried to start it it fired up immediately and they could find nothing wrong with it. This happened about three times more and finally, they found they couldn't start it. After about three days of testing it they said they couldn't figure out what was wrong with the car. The even called the Volvo engineers in Sweden and it stumped them. I was getting ready to transfer back to the States and our office secretary and her husband (military) wanted to buy it. I told them about the problems I had with it and they said they were aware of that but wanted it anyway. I reduced the price for them and they bought it. I found out later that after a year, they got rid of the car because it had too many problems.