£67,031.92 is a frightening number indeed....

enthusiasticsaver

Fingers crossed for your car. Hope it can be salvaged without too massive a bill.

warby68

I've got everything crossed for the car too

Its about time you caught a break with something costing LESS than you fear for once.

Suffolk_lass

Willing your little car to be OK over here too. You really do deserve a break

XSpender

Hope your car gets fixed for a sum less than the pot you have done so well at pulling together.

Any cake crumbs left after the weekend send in my direction

Verbatim

Fingers crossed for the car today.

Cherryfudge

Treadingonplaymobil wrote: »

I'm OK really about the car, it's just frustrating that every time I feel like I'm making progress it seems like we take another huge step backwards. I'm just keeping my fingers crossed today and hoping it all comes in at a sensible sum.

We're all crossing fingers for you too!

It occurs to me... those huge steps backwards would have happened before your LBM as well, but in those days they would just have gone on a card and made things worse. At least nowadays you are aware and can head them off. I have an image of you playing Space Invaders with them! (If you remember Space Invaders?)

JoJoC

I don't think you're on your own being on tenterhooks until the car bill is revealed - it appears that we all are!

Another one here with fingers crossed that it's minimal repair costs and that you catch t hat break that you so deserve.

I feel your car pain - we pay out a lot for our car and our annual service came in at a whopping £319 this year! I almost collapsed in a heap.

Treadingonplaymobil

Sorry to keep you all in suspense, but I still don't know the final answer :eek: . The garage can't find a specific problem for the fault despite taking it for a drive and running a diagnostic, but they're going ahead with the service and hoping that all the general filter changing, cleaning, oil change etc will sort the problem out. My translation of their garage-speak is that they think everything's just a bit gungy and manky. I would imagine that the full service will still take most or all of the budget available, which is frustrating as I'll need to try to put by that money again in case the problem crops up again, but at least it (hopefully!) won't be miles over the budget I've set.

Treadingonplaymobil

And the final score iiiiiiiis... £384.

Could have been (a lot) better, could have been (a lot) worse. It would have been cheaper, but one of the brake callipers was merrily leaking brake fluid everywhere, so that was kind of an urgent fix :eek: . No specific solution on the issue it's been having, but all the filters etc were totally disgusting, so I'm hoping now they're all nice and clean things might improve. I'll try to top the car maintenance pot up again fairly rapidly in case the problem comes back. The garage chap said the car was in pretty good nick for the age/mileage, and agreed with our plan to run it until it becomes uneconomical to repair. I was really impressed with the garage actually, they were very non-condescending (any woman here who has been treated like an idiot by a mechanic will know how nice it is not to be), explained everything and communicated throughout the day about the work that needed doing as they went through.

I had £370 in the car maintenance pot and £52 in the emergency fund, so it's covered with a bit of a dip into the emergency fund, but at least I didn't have to raid any of the other savings pots. We'll call that a teeny weeny win, even though not spending £384 on my fairly rubbish car would have been even nicer .

wishingthemortgaheaway

I'd call that a win really.
Good news at least and well done for having the money to do it.
One day something like that will just be 'run of the mill' and you won't even bat an eyelid.