Yes I know, DO NOT buy a new car (or just about anything) when merc is retro.
I do not know where it came from, this past month there´s just so many new things and thoughts coming into my life. I just wanna go with the flow, after many years of boredom. So I find this car and house I´ve always wanted. The house deal can probably wait until merc goes forth. But the car....
Anybody out there who bought a car during mercury retrograde
I got my second car, which was a 1991 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme with the Quad 4 engine, during a Mercury Retrograde in March 2000.
I got that car because I had wrecked my other one. This car gave a lot of trouble. The person we bought it from claimed that the engine and transmission had been rebuilt. When I first got it, it seemingly had no problems. It ran smoothly. Around a month and a half later, it started to have a problem where it would get to cutting off randomly while driving down the road. Basically, the car would be running great. Then, suddenly, it would just cut off. Sometimes, it would start back up, and sometimes, it wouldn't. We would take it to a shop, and they would find something wrong and fix it. We'd think that it would fix the problem, but not long afterward, the car would do the same thing again.
One time when we took it to the shop, they replaced spark plug wires and the plugs themselves. However, a day after I got it back, I had to get it towed to the dealership since it cut off on me while pulling off at a gas station, and it wouldn't start back up. Even they didn't fix it.
Overall, we dumped like 2000 bucks into that car trying to fix it to no avail. We later sold it to my cousin as is for couple hundred bucks.
We ended up getting me an '83 Cressida for several bucks. This time, Mercury wasn't retrograde from what I recall. This car was fairly dependable considering that it was salvaged and what we paid for it. Unfortunately, we couldn't keep it due to failure to get a title (due to salvage status).
Right as we got rid of it, I got a '91 Plymouth Sundance RS. Mercury wasn't retrograde either when I got it. The car was reliable overall, and I kept it for 6.5 years.
Also, we have a '99 Chrysler Concorde with the 2.7 liter V6 engine. We got it in December 2004. Mercury wasn't retrograde. However, it was 5 days after it had gone direct, so it was still in the shadow phase. Although these particular engines are known to frequently fail due to oiling problems, ours is still running ok with about 161000 miles on it. We haven't had too many problems with the car except some A/C problems; one about a month after getting it, another one around 2 years later, and one recently. The car had around 65000 miles on it when we got it.
So, in my experience, do not buy a car during a Mercury Retrograde. Even during the shadow phase, some minor issues are possible.
After that it was one thing after another constantly, including a huge accident, for the entire time I owned that car! It was truly a new car owner's nightmare. But I was young and stupid and didn't force the dealer to give me a new one and not a lemon!
