[blackax]

Originally Posted by Vettezuki

She has a gift for making the worst possible choice at each turn. We were trying to be a positive and supportive influence, which I don't regret, as she has acknowledged and expressed gratitude so at least some flicker might have gotten through, but holy shit. . .this plus some surprise back business taxes, and not being able to pull of a refi business debt exit, have kicked me in the nuts a little. Anyway, it get's towed in the morning, so I'll find out more. Hopefully it's just the HG, and not some catastrophic head warpage . . . but knowing her . . .

Wow sorry to hear you got the short end of the stick. Hope you can get out from under the car with out it costing you too much.

[Damian]

Fix it, flip it and make some money for your time.

[Vettezuki]

Originally Posted by Damian

Fix it, flip it and make some money for your time.

Well, that's not going to happen, but if I'm really lucky for my time I might wash on cash.

Owed is about $2k. KBB fair is $3k, KBB Good is $3,700. At this point I think I'd be doing really well to get it decent looking and running reasonably well for anything near $1k.

Something wrong with head/cooling
Somethign wrong with cat
Headlights don't go on
Blinkers don't work
Passenger door doesn't open at all (hopefully just stuck internal mechanism)
Broken windshield
toast battery
Engine cover including over timing belts shattered
passenger front quarterpanel toast
Part of unibody under passenger door banged up
Front tires weak

This is what's known!

It's still probably worth doing to keep the loss minimized, but definitely not a money maker of any kind.

[Damian]

Something tells me those problems are the reason she "cant afford it anymore".

[Shaolin Crane]

Originally Posted by Damian

Something tells me those problems are the reason she "cant afford it anymore".

Yup

[Leedom]

Did she off-road the thing, damn!? Sorry you are getting screwed with this. I learned years ago never lend anyone anything you need back (money, tools, furniture, etc.)

[Vettezuki]

Originally Posted by Damian

Something tells me those problems are the reason she "cant afford it anymore".

There's a lot of colorful story, but the short of it is she ended up married to not the greatest guy very young and had a couple kids. Now she's getting divorced but he doesn't have much and neither does she. I'm 99% sure the damage was from this fella, who definitely curb crashed at least. So I do think she's probably down to rubbing sticks together as I think her parents have cut her off too, so continuing to pay for a a car that for her would be thousands to get back on the road probably is just not terribly rational with little mouths to feed. Personally I'd damn near starve instead of coming up short on a financial obligation, but I'm not a young mother of two with dick for resources either.

Hopefully the gods will smile and for the time in I'll at least wash on expenses.

So who's coming over to volunteer some help?

But dads with daughters, pay lots of attention to them and set the role model of the kind of guy they should end up with, cuz if you don't and they develop daddy troubles, they can seriously set themselves back from a young age that can be hard to recover from. I don't know that's what happened here, but that sure happens a lot.

[blackax]

Originally Posted by Vettezuki

There's a lot of colorful story, but the short of it is she ended up married to not the greatest guy very young and had a couple kids. Now she's getting divorced but he doesn't have much and neither does she. I'm 99% sure the damage was from this fella, who definitely curb crashed at least. So I do think she's probably down to rubbing sticks together as I think her parents have cut her off too, so continuing to pay for a a car that for her would be thousands to get back on the road probably is just not terribly rational with little mouths to feed. Personally I'd damn near starve instead of coming up short on a financial obligation, but I'm not a young mother of two with dick for resources either.

Hopefully the gods will smile and for the time in I'll at least wash on expenses.

So who's coming over to volunteer some help?

But dads with daughters, pay lots of attention to them and set the role model of the kind of guy they should end up with, cuz if you don't and they develop daddy troubles, they can seriously set themselves back from a young age that can be hard to recover from. I don't know that's what happened here, but that sure happens a lot.

Cut your loses and get rid of the car as it. You are not going to even get close to getting the car good enough to make any money.

[Vettezuki]

Originally Posted by blackax

Cut your loses and get rid of the car as it. You are not going to even get close to getting the car good enough to make any money.

"As is" is probably scrap or there about since it doesn't run, that's -$2k~. With $1k~ in and sell for $3k~ I break even on money. Those are the basic numbers. The killer would be if I ran into something much more expensive along the way. So first thing is to identify biggest cost items without spending any money if I can help it.

[Shaolin Crane]

Originally Posted by Vettezuki

There's a lot of colorful story, but the short of it is she ended up married to not the greatest guy very young and had a couple kids. Now she's getting divorced but he doesn't have much and neither does she. I'm 99% sure the damage was from this fella, who definitely curb crashed at least. So I do think she's probably down to rubbing sticks together as I think her parents have cut her off too, so continuing to pay for a a car that for her would be thousands to get back on the road probably is just not terribly rational with little mouths to feed. Personally I'd damn near starve instead of coming up short on a financial obligation, but I'm not a young mother of two with dick for resources either.

Hopefully the gods will smile and for the time in I'll at least wash on expenses.

So who's coming over to volunteer some help?

But dads with daughters, pay lots of attention to them and set the role model of the kind of guy they should end up with, cuz if you don't and they develop daddy troubles, they can seriously set themselves back from a young age that can be hard to recover from. I don't know that's what happened here, but that sure happens a lot.

Hey now, if there weren't girls with daddy issues Enkei and I wouldn't get nearly as many dates as we do.