Argh Bloody car

MartialArtMan

I just wrote a long whinging post all about my car and it didn't go through :mad: and double :mad: :mad:

I ain't typing it all again.....The long and short of it is I don't like my car it needs money spent on it but the car doesn't warrant that amount of money spent. I wish I wasn't so broke so that I could just go and get something decent, but instead I have to make do.

Arghhhhh

D&DD

Hi MMan we just had a bit of a fiasco with ours but we were pointed to a car forum https://www.parkers.co.uk where they are very helpful Lots of mechanics on there!
We were told we needed a new auto gearbox at £2k+ :eek: got away with taking it to have just the part replaced by a specialist auto gearbox man for £400 :T :T :T
I have every sympathy for you hun as its a nightmare when you rely on a car

klare_2

i soooooooo know what you mean, i have a peugot diesel with 108K on the clock, it has just cost me nearly £600 to get it through its MOT and over the year in total it has cost me £1000,averaging at one repair every two months, two days out of work because I cant do my job without a car. I dont have the money to buy anything half way decent but could actually afford to pay out the money for decent car on credit if I could actually get credit! but am also with the CCCS so am not allowed to take any more credit agreements out.
I can not physically get to my job without it and have to drive inbetween 60 -70 miles a day. I have no other options for work and love my job anyway. But it means that I am driving a car that I am absolutely terrified of, constantly paranoid that something else is about to drop off, burst into flames, go flat, start leaking ( these are just some of the things its done in recent months) ... and if it finely does give up on me, the bottom line is I will have to give up my job, wont be able to pay my bills or my debt, or mortgage.
Last year I didnt actually get any proper break from work ( as in a weeks holiday) because between the car and the kids being ill, both of which I neded to use holiday time for - the car was in the garage for two days on every occassion! ...so I am completely knac#ered into the bargain as well!
Other than starting to enter competitions and trying to WIN one, I am stuck! gggggggrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

2_litre

this is the best place on the net for free freindly advice http://www.carmechanicsmag.co.uk/

klare_2

i will go have a look at those sites too but considering that i can only just do the wind screen water thing, I dont think any menchanic stuff is going to be of any use to me,,, i would love to do a really basic course in mechanics but therejust arent the facilities to access where i am!

Hintza

A few years ago I bought cheap Golf for £1100, after 6 months I had spent around £2,000 on it and decided I had better have the cam belt done since it had cost me so much.

The job was donne on the Saturday and I wrote ot off on the Monday (got T.Boned all my fault) it was like having a huge weight lifted off my shoulders, I was feeling very poor by then but felt so much better that the millstone had finally gone!

MartialArtMan

Thanks guys and gals that makes me feel better (sorry) you see my car hasn't cost me a fortune. I probably need to spend about £600 on it to get it in A1 condition mechanically and cosmetically. It has niggling faults and yesterday I just had a bad day with it cos the battery ran flat (at home fortunately). I think the problem is that my last car which also cost me about £1800 went for years without any probs this one has had niggles since the day I got it (feels lke it). If I get it sorted I'm sure it'd last me a good few years yet.

Klare if I was you I'd get rid of your car whilst it has a years MOT and get something Japanese for the same sort of money....