Man. You got no idea how hard I work at balancing my time in my life. Some handle it better than other. Cudos to you.
I would love to fix my car. But I NEED to know how do it 100 percent. I can’t afford to try and fix something and ruin it in the process. I’ve said 100 times I don’t have the right tools. And yea my friends kinda suck. I know a few guys and they always have excuses for why they can’t help me or help loan some tools.
I’ve tried trading it. I had a 2011 CRV lined Up but dealer wanted me to pay $600 to replace the rotors bc they wobbled at high speeds on the test drive. They wouldn’t pay to fix it. They wanted me to.
I tried to trade for a 15 imapla at same place and they wanted $3000 down with a trade.
I have people offer to buy it. But it’s like than I’m without a car. And I need a car. And it would be really difficult to get another car. Bc they would want an absurd down payment I’m sure
I also tried to trade for a 2018 crv and they worked it with no down payment. But the car payment was $800 a month!
I net $2000 on a good month. I’ve honestly dug a deep hole in one bad purchase with this Tahoe it feels like.
sounds like you took what I said as a negative. it's not really, it's just what life is. life in general gets easier as you get older and earning potential goes up. and it's easier to fix something you enjoy. like I picked up a hybrid yukon. they are basically a cluster haha but it interests me, so I enjoy reading and learning stuff about it. plus our entire fleet is going electric, so it's kinda a cross over at work too, what I learn on mine puts me ahead of the other techs in the system that watch to much TV and hate something they don't understand. our electric stuff is much better suited to what we do with them and is showing it slowly after the growing pains of new delivery failures that everything has.
when I was young I was between cars, my s10 got totalled. insurance paid it off but left me without a car and zero cash. bummed 300$ and picked up a 91 thru a buddy. it was junk, like my girl at the time now wife wouldn't been seen in it. driver side window held up with a peice of wood. but it ran enough to get around. I slowly fixed things on it and ended up keeping it as a 3rd/4th beater car for years. finally sent it to the junk yard during covid. my wife threw a party all these years later. I was sad over it lol.
my buddy years ago got taken by a dealer on a newer car pretty badly, he was upside down like 8k. well he hit someone and totalled it, no gap insurance. left him carless and with bank wanting $8k. he had to get a personal loan for the 8k, I believe someone had to sign for him to get it. found him a old best up suby wagon for a few 100$. babied at along for about 3 years go get everything sorted.
stuff happens when you're young and poor. small things bite you eaiser.
I disagree with the dad being important. mine was an alcoholic and died when I was about 14. having a bad one is worse than not having one at all.. and honestly most humans are worthless crap, the odds if you getting one worth having is very low. count your blessings you didn't have to deal with a bad one, my life got so much better when it died.
I learned mechanic stuff because I hated construction work, and was to poor to buy anything nice. started with fixing bikes as a kid and kept taking cars apart till I figured stuff out, but horrible old Haines manuals to see pics. it wasn't like today where theirs 15 youtube videos showing step by step how to do everything. parts are more expensive these days but we also didn't worry about quality of said part, just called around to get the cheapest local thing. no Amazon haha. local parts stores and junk yards was kinda it.
we also didn't have the level of adhd everyone young has today from the technology world sucking the life out of you for clicks. so that helped. if something was broken, you literally had nothing to do but fix it. no other option.
so I see 2 options for you.. just drive the thing till it doesn't run anymore. change the oil often as you can to hopefully keep the afm from failing, maybe try to flush the tranny fluid but fluid is so expensive these days, it's probably not worth it. and then drive it into the ground while you just live your life. the less aggressive you. drive it, probably the better. which is boring when you're young. I feel like the tranny will be what takes it off the road.
unload it for a loss while you can buy the cheapest running junk you can find and drive that into the ground. maybe learn some basics along the way.
