This is the song...la la la la
Goddamnmotherfuckingkiaandstupidfuckingmechanic and ahhhh!!!
The question of the day is what the hell should I do? Here are my options:
1. Keep my car and pay over $1000 to fix everything that's wrong with it to make it a semi-reliable vehicle. Of course, it's a Kia, so once we fix the things currently wrong with it something else will probably go wrong. But, at least if something does go wrong, we own the car so we don't have a car payment. Not having a car payment is a glorious thing when you're poor like us.
2. Sell my car to the guy that towed it yesterday for $1000. Take that, add another 1-1.5 thou out of the student loan money and put a down payment on a new-to-me car. We can get our payments around $100-150. The extra insurance for bumping it up to full coverage is only $30 a month. BUT, I just got that student loan, and my payments on that are $60-70 a month too. All that together all of a sudden might hurt. I'm thinking I'd have to get a part time job in the evenings wherever to rest a little easier, but then the problem with that is my plans to start school in the next week are shot to hell, and maybe even in the fall if we figure out we NEED the money I'm making at the job. Since it's a used car, there's no guarantee there that it wouldn't have problems to fix right away.
So what the fuck should we do?
I think we're leaning at option #2, but it's hard to decide.
The question of the day is what the hell should I do? Here are my options:
1. Keep my car and pay over $1000 to fix everything that's wrong with it to make it a semi-reliable vehicle. Of course, it's a Kia, so once we fix the things currently wrong with it something else will probably go wrong. But, at least if something does go wrong, we own the car so we don't have a car payment. Not having a car payment is a glorious thing when you're poor like us.
2. Sell my car to the guy that towed it yesterday for $1000. Take that, add another 1-1.5 thou out of the student loan money and put a down payment on a new-to-me car. We can get our payments around $100-150. The extra insurance for bumping it up to full coverage is only $30 a month. BUT, I just got that student loan, and my payments on that are $60-70 a month too. All that together all of a sudden might hurt. I'm thinking I'd have to get a part time job in the evenings wherever to rest a little easier, but then the problem with that is my plans to start school in the next week are shot to hell, and maybe even in the fall if we figure out we NEED the money I'm making at the job. Since it's a used car, there's no guarantee there that it wouldn't have problems to fix right away.
So what the fuck should we do?
I think we're leaning at option #2, but it's hard to decide.