To be honest, my husband and I are in pretty serious need of different vehicles. I say different instead of new because while brand new vehicles would be nice, we would certainly be just as thrilled with used vehicles.
My husband drives a Chevy and I drive an Olds. Both vehicles have
way over 100K miles and both vehicles were damaged pretty good by the F-3 tornado that blew our neighborhood away in the year 2000.
Fortunately the damage was only cosmetic and it did not render our vehicles a total loss. Because our vehicles were old, the insurance did not pay much to cover the cost of cosmetic repairs.
Instead of fixing the damage to our cars (which would have cost more than what insurance paid) we decided to drive them as is. We added the insurance money we obtained for the vehicles to the insurance money we obtained for what was left of our home and used it to purchase and move into our current home.
As of now, we drive our current vehicles on a wing and a prayer.
Something under the hood of my car caught on fire the other day and whatever it was has caused my heater to barely work. What little heat it does put out smells like burned rubber. My car shakes and makes funny noises and cuts out despite having been worked on many times.
The brakes on my husbands truck are messed up and he puts a container of break fluid in it every time he has to drive it to work. There are several things wrong with his truck. My car, despite being a complete wreck, is the better of the two vehicles.
We have given up on getting them repaired because the auto repair bills were getting as bad as medical bills and yet the vehicles continue to fall apart.
At this time, we can not afford to purchase used vehicles. Until such time as we are able to, we don't go anywhere other than to work, or the grocery store or to doctor apts. We do no extra driving at all and we pray that our vehicles will hold out for a little while longer.
So far so good.
Gehanna
