Money pit

[guilttripjourno]

Hi all,
Anything which you have bought or done which has been a money pit or a total dud. How have you coped. I bought a car last year for £7K which has been a total disaster from the starting, ongoing issues with the engine. Haven't been able to use it. Wish I had spent on a better car. Just feel guilty on the money spent and the confidence I would have gained from driving.

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Dh car. I could cry at the amount of money it’s had spent on it and takes to run. Caused many many arguments

Its stressful and embarassing. I just feel embarassed with the whole thing and this keeps me down.

A classic car. We don’t regret it but it is definitely an ongoing project

A car. It was a complete lemon - everything went wrong with it. It spent more time on a ramp in the garage than it did on the road. So much so it was affectionately known as the machine that's funding my mechanic's grandson through Uni.

I ended up buying a brand new car because the monthly finance payments were cheaper than all of the ongoing maintenance and repair costs I'd been stuck with!

True that. Good decision. I am thinking the same. Just get rid of this one and have a new start !!

Horses.... no bigger money pit than those!!

I'm never buying a modern diesel after my experience with one. In a year, it had to have a new starter motor, a new diesel particulate filter, a new dual mass flywheel and a new clutch. The bills came to over £2k in a year. Before that, I'd never spent more than £2k buying a damn car.

The garage warned me that it would need new injectors in the next 6-12 months and that would be £1,700.

I sold the fucker.

It's old petrol Audis for me from now on. They rarely go wrong and are cheap to fix when they do.

We spent a hell of a lot of money buying a Discovery 3 as we live on a smallholding and need a 4x4. In hindsight we bought in haste and it turned out to be a death trap as well as a money pit. Things like the steering rack going on a motorway journey, something that could have killed me and also set us back 2,500. It got to the stage where I was too frightened to drive it, every time the fucking thing made an odd noise or a red light came on in the dashboard I was convinced I was about to die. It doesn't help that we have very twisty roads around here with steep drops to one side. Eventually, DH agreed to cut our considerable losses and we sold it for scrap and bought a very old Discovery, that while battered and tattered and with no fancy features, never goes wrong and makes me feel very safe.

If it is any consolation, OP, my DH was very embarrassed by that car, as he bought it. It cost us a lot more than your dud and in the end I had to beg him to get rid of it, when the wheel bearing on one of the front wheels just snapped when I was driving it. He was truly conned and he still feels angry. Never had a car give us so much grief.

My daughters 😂

@LakieLady sounds like my old Focus. I only had it a year and gritted my teeth on the bills, but after the turbo packed up I admitted defeat and traded it in.

We spent a hell of a lot of money buying a Discovery 3 as we live on a smallholding and need a 4x4. In hindsight we bought in haste and it turned out to be a death trap as well as a money pit

The guy I bought my current Audi from was getting rid of it because his 3-year old Disco had just got cost £3k to get through its first MOT and they needed to recoup some of the money. While we were waiting for the payment to go through, he wistfully told DP that he thought he might be getting rid of the wrong car.

It was his wife who insisted on keeping the Disco, because it was "safer for the kids". One of the repairs it needed was something to do with the brakes that was knackered to the point of being dangerous!

Same as @Tappering. Bought a cheap car within my means which lived on the ramp. Got less than 1000 miles out of it before it died completely. Bought a nearly new car on finance which has cost nothing more than services and petrol. That’ll teach me to do the sensible thing.

Oh and horses. Every horse I buy develops a PTS problem within 18 months.

LakieLady OMG!!! What is WRONG with some people?! I swear my husband was only trying to hang onto the 3 because it was a bit footballer's wife and he liked the look of it. My mechanic sold us the one I have now and he was horrified by how it looks because it has been around the block a few times but it bloody turns on every time and never needs more than minor repairs and maintenance!

Insane get thee a native pony. We have six of them, half are rescues and are never sick or sorry.