fix or sell

[Track Junky]

I agree with Eric. Get it fixed and save what you think would be monthly payment money to the side.

Dont know what your monthly budget would be but I personally like to put enough down on a vehicle so that my payment is between $350 and $400/month.

Keep it until there is an absolute need for a another or different vehicle.

I bought my truck new in 2000 and it currently has a bit over 150K miles on it. I have worked the hell out this thing including towing close to 20,000 lbs up a steep grade with my foot to the floor in first gear doing 5 mph.(not on purpose. The tile guy lied to me and told me each pallet of tile weighed 1000 lbs. Turns out they were 2500 lbs and I had 6 pallets plus the weight of a 20 yard hydraulic dump trailor)and thats with a 6 litre gas motor. I've changed all fluids when they were supposed to be changed and so far so good.

The same truck new today will cost me over $50K. Will I ever buy a new truck? Hell no!! When the time comes I will replace engine and trans in the one I currently own.

[WSSix]

My thinking is right in line with you guys. I'll just keep chugging along. It wasn't that long ago that I could do all this work myself but now that I've had to move around a bunch, I no longer have my work area. I paid to have the oil changed for the first time ever last year. That wasn't easy for me to pay, lol. So you can imagine I'm not really interested in paying a few hundred dollar labor bill for this work.

Thanks