Had to replace my car and I’m gutted

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It’s a bit pathetic really and I was just wondering if anyone else is as weird as me😂

I adored my car (it was in my fiancés name but he has a company car so it became mine) it was a Jeep in a very rare colour. Perfect size for me, felt powerful and high up and oh I just loved it so much. It wasn’t geared up with all the mod cons and it was getting scruffy inside but it made me so happy and was part of my identity😂 it was honestly like part of the family. Over the past year it’s been having expensive problem after expensive problem and we just decided it was time to trade her in.

Weve got a big 7 seater automatic VW, that’s classy and stylish with all the exciting electrics inside but if I’m honest I’m scared of it😂 It’s to fit around our growing family and it has a huge boot and everything we needed but it’s just not my Jeep

Me and OH were nearly crying when we walked away from it for the last time. My son was really sad too! We had so many adventures, so many fun times (some arguments!) and we just loved it. I honestly feel like I’ve made a mistake even though it was time.

anyone else as weird as us?😂

It hasn't happened yet but I'll be heartbroken when my car finally packs in. It was my Mum's last car, she absolutely loved it and I inherited it when she died a few years ago and learned to drive in it. It's the only car I've ever driven (apart from my driving instructor's), it's a 17 year old Fiesta, absolutely dented and scratched to shit, the air con doesn't work and the radio is crap but I love it.

I get very attached to my cars , well most of them , but I just keep them until they die if I’m attached . My Kia literally sits on the drive and my husband takes him out once a week to go to his mums as I’ve got a new car but he’s staying until he goes to the scrap yard .

OP you can’t post this without a picture! Or at least tell us what kind of Jeep and the colour so we can fully appreciate it. 😁

You’re definitely not unreasonable though.

Yes years ago I took on my dad's old Volvo estate when he bought a newer one off my uncle who gave up driving. The kids and I loved that car, we had so much fun and adventures and happy memories with it and it was just lovely to drive and be in with its lovely leather interior. It got scrapped around 10 years ago, (maybe more) when it needed a repair which was uneconomic to do. I still think about it sometimes and my now adult DD do so as well.

Without giving the reg it was one of these https://emotionimports.com/cars/241004173953/ - I think some people find them ugly but we were besotted with it 😂❤️ there was only 300 in the country like that.

I love that you keep your Kia and have him go out on a little treck to keep him going! Wish we could have done that! But we have a limited drive (and cash!). But something under the car was starting to deteriorate and it would of been dangerous when it went 😩 we literally spent 3k on it weeks ago and then found this issue and just thought we can’t put another 6 on it. She was getting old bless her❤️

@AngeloMysterioso so sorry about your mum. What a lovely way to keep her with you. I lost mine last year but she had a Nissan Juke which I hated so I wasn’t bothered that went to someone else😂😂

Yes, I'm attached to my car. Sense would say that I should be trading in and replacing my 14 year old Peugeot. Instead, I'm giving it a makeover and have decided to go 1970's kitsch with animal print seat covers, fluffy dice and Del Boy bobbing head ornament 😁🫣

YANBU I had a small car that I loved, it was so much fun to drive. I had it from new to 9 yo, really I'd outgrown it but was convincing myself it was fine, i couldn'tget shopping and the buggy in the boot. Then I spotted a tiny bit of rust.
I still miss it. Buggy days are well and truly behind me...maybe I'll have a more updated version...mmmm!

I was gutted when my micra finally died, I'd had it donkeys years and was genuinely upset as you say it the memories. It was the car I brought my daughter home from the hospital in, all the little road trips.

I loved my Ruby red Renault 5 GTX, and really wish I'd kept it after moving on to my next car.

I've actually tried to find it over the years, but zero luck with that😟