Monday, July 20, 2015

Is my car worth saving or should I just trade it in?


I have a 2002 Honda CRV with over 200,000 miles on it. I've had it for about over a year now and lately over the past couple months or so it's been having a lot of problems that have been popping up recently and these problems being like I used to have a really bad oil leak that I thought was coming from the oil pan gasket but it really wasn't, it was coming from this valve right under my valve cover gasket and I just got that fixed yesterday. And before that I took my car to Firestone to get them to at least make my car driveable again because I have messed up the front left axle when I got into an incident while I was going across the interstate back in May and it feels like ever since that my car has been slowly going downhill no matter what I do to fix it. So far, if I spent about almost 2 grand on just trying to make it as drivable and safe as possible but I feel like the more money I put into trying to fix it more problems keep showing up. But at the same time I don't want to let it go because my mom gave it to me and I feel like I put in too much money to just give it away like that either. So, do you guys think its worth fixing because it still runs pretty good once I jump start it but with the new axel might be coming a loose, my battery/altenator possibly going bad, and my brakes might need replacing too because even when I put in park it still tries to roll; have to put on the emergency brake to make it stop completely in place. Any thoughts?

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