After much work, Suzi is finally back in action again! 🥰 I've given it three oil flushes so far, and there isn't any noticeable sign of coolant contamination left in the oil, so I'll probably run it on the current oil for a little while, before giving it one final change with decent quality oil.

Also, don't hold your phone and drive, kids. Particularly if your car is a manual 🙃

The Indonesian-import 1997 Suzuki Carry Futura van that's been in my family since 2001 was promised to me several years ago, after my dad stopped using it. Unfortunately, I've kind of been involved in a weird "custody" battle for it with my second youngest brother, who has surreptitiously been trying to take it for himself. This doubly pisses me off, because not only was the vehicle promised to me originally as mentioned, but I've also put a ton of my own money and many hours of personal labor doing repairs and mods to it over the years.

Anyway, at least one part of the battle has finally been won, as I spent a non-insignificant chunk of change getting it taxed and registered in my name, so legally, I finally own it. If I were a complete jerk, I'd just take it and drive it back here to my place, leaving him with no vehicle at all, but since I do actually have some decency, I will give him time to finally find his own damn car before that happens (something which I've offered to help him with many times, but he's been completely uninterested).

I had to have my phone sent back to Samsung for repairs under warrantee, which apparently could take like 3 weeks. So in the meantime, I have a choice between these two to use so that I can at least make and receive phone calls 😛

The Nokia 3315 makes the most sense, since it has full SMS capability (the Motorola can only receive text - it can't send), and is way better suited for fitting in the pockets of the tight pants I tend to wear, lol. But I do like the idea of putting the big old Motorola to some legitimate use. Picture taken with my Sony Mavica FD200 floppy disk camera.