That kinda hurts...
For the past several months, my car has not been doing so good. It started back in March when my car would occassionally lurch when I was driving. When this would happen the check engine light would come on and I would lose pickup. If I turned the car off at a light the check engine light would go off and things would be normal until it happened again.
Shortly after that my car became extremely loud and all my co-workers would say it was the exhaust. They were right. The one tube was hanging by a thread and pretty much no exhaust was being pushed out the back. At this point as well the check engine light remained on permanently.
A few weeks ago a loud noise started to come from my rignt wheel. It probably wasn't safe to be driving it, but I had to do what I had to do to get to work. The bad part is that my commute totals sixty miles a day. Of course things got worse. The wheel got so loud that I had to use my wife's car.
Last Thursday evening, I dropped the car off and by Friday I had an estimate. My wife had called and asked what the verdict was. The lady's respinse was "the car is a mess." When she had given my wife the final cost, it was not good. In total it will be about $2500 to fix.
This is where my dilema is. I do not have $2500 dollars. The car is also 10 years old. I can not afford to finance another car so I am clueless. I mean, if I knew that it would last another 3-4 years until we were done payin on the other car I would do it. Who knows what my finances will look lke then. My other thought was to look for a cheap used car. Could I find that diamond in the rough and get the 3-4 years out of that? Who knows at this point. It is obvious that I will have to borrow the money, but do I get it fixed or take a chance on a cheap used car? Bottom line though, $2500 hurts...alot! Any donations?
Shortly after that my car became extremely loud and all my co-workers would say it was the exhaust. They were right. The one tube was hanging by a thread and pretty much no exhaust was being pushed out the back. At this point as well the check engine light remained on permanently.
A few weeks ago a loud noise started to come from my rignt wheel. It probably wasn't safe to be driving it, but I had to do what I had to do to get to work. The bad part is that my commute totals sixty miles a day. Of course things got worse. The wheel got so loud that I had to use my wife's car.
Last Thursday evening, I dropped the car off and by Friday I had an estimate. My wife had called and asked what the verdict was. The lady's respinse was "the car is a mess." When she had given my wife the final cost, it was not good. In total it will be about $2500 to fix.
This is where my dilema is. I do not have $2500 dollars. The car is also 10 years old. I can not afford to finance another car so I am clueless. I mean, if I knew that it would last another 3-4 years until we were done payin on the other car I would do it. Who knows what my finances will look lke then. My other thought was to look for a cheap used car. Could I find that diamond in the rough and get the 3-4 years out of that? Who knows at this point. It is obvious that I will have to borrow the money, but do I get it fixed or take a chance on a cheap used car? Bottom line though, $2500 hurts...alot! Any donations?
Comments
Post a Comment