There is already one mechanic who refuses to work on my 1990 740 GL Wagon because he says it doesn't like him. I can understand this because, I swear, the car has a very bad reaction to having any work done, as always - always, something else goes wrong even before I'd leave a shop, following a repair.

This current mystique is that, ostensibly, the fuel pump died after driving 2 miles home, following getting 8 gallons of gasoline. The car was towed to a shop. Diagnostics performed. Fuel pump replaced. I get into the car and turn on the ignition, and I hear a deep beep. After owning the car for, what, six years - 8 years now? this sound is issuing from the holder for a car telephone that came with the car. Every time I turn on the car, the empty phone holder is doing this.

Also, the gas gauge is now stuck. Also, all it sounds like the rack that was installed in March of 2017 wants to leave the car. All that happened, was the car was towed on a nice flat bed, and it was put on a nice flat lift in the shop.

Just a week or two prior to this, my brake lights ceased to function. The brake light in the middle of the rear window works. The brake bulbs are good and the contacts are good. It may be the switch in the front, which will be checked.

But what the heck could possibly cause this otherwise dead phone holder to start with this beep business, and the rather violent rack-type shudder. (I should note that the shudder, more mildly though, continued after the rack and pinion fix, but by then, this process had taken six months, the first two racks were bad. I know it's an old vehicle, but the mileage is under 190,000.

Just very weird. It is as though it doesn't want anyone to touch it - and I do not work on the car, so it isn't that...geeze...