Help me convince my dad to buy a car

[swbsam]

Originally posted by: Marlin1975

Originally posted by: DougK62
If it will only take $3000 to make it safe and reliable again and that's what your dad wants then I would do that.

I think the $3000 is what they have spent just to keep it going, not make it safe.

Yep, $3,000 so far this year to keep it going, not make it safe. I haven't driven it after the repairs (it may still be int he shop for all I know), but I doubt the current repairs left it in a like-new condition.

 

[Blieb]

OMGZ!!! Install a roll cage and do demolition derby!!!

 

[Vette73]

Originally posted by: evident
do what someone else said, drain the oil, drive it around the block. that should make the engine die and the cost of repairing prohibitive. drain radiator fluid too. why not?

Then they could not get the Clunker value out of it.

 

[swbsam]

Originally posted by: Marlin1975

Originally posted by: evident
do what someone else said, drain the oil, drive it around the block. that should make the engine die and the cost of repairing prohibitive. drain radiator fluid too. why not?

Then they could not get the Clunker value out of it.

That's also fraud and unethical

 

[SunSamurai]

It sounds like the thing is your dads hobby. Emotional attachment to it. I would recommend they get a new car, but he might want to keep the van. If it is unsafe and your mom feels afraid in it, and he is being stubborn, its not really stubbornness, its called "being a jackass". It takes more than being stubborn to make your family feel unsafe.