Breif hoistory.
I drive and DP drives. We both have cars. I don't need one bit it comes in handy for running the children around, doing large amounts of shopping and coming home from work late at night. He has to have a car for his job.
He got this job about 3 years ago. He was told he had to have a reliable car as part of that job as he would have to go on callouts to the elderly. We borrowed some money of his mum and dad to buy him a decent car, it was 2500.00 and last month we paid them off. I have never had a 'nice' car , i'm always bottom of the pile so i've had cars 10 years or older. The car I have at the moment is a bucket of crap, but it's reliable it gets me to where I need to go so i'm not that bothered.
I've not really paid out on repairs for my car, I must drive over glass alot as I pay out for tyres quite often but other than that it goes through the MOT.I'm not sure how much DP has paid out, it comes out of his 'pocket money' but I know that we had to pay (out of the savings) £160.00 recently for something on his car.
Our close friend is a mechanic and he's said that the car needs a new head gasket. He's given us a quote for £850. Now I know what's going to happen, DP will either 1) take cash off the credit card OR 2) want to use some of our savings to pay for it.
Now £850.00 is alot, infact I pointed out to the mechanic that's it's more than what i've paid for my cars. I think the most expensive one was £650.00
At the moment he is using my car but hates it. The heater dosent work, it isn't power sterering and the seat is too low down I don't care if he hates it , it's a car and it's more than what he's got at the moment. It's mine and I manage. We have tried to use just one car but it proved too difficult in the past, it restricts the freedom I have with the children but I am willing to give it another go as we both work and most of the time I am within walking distance.
AIBU to say he is not using our savings on a new head gasket that even the mechanic has said might not even solve the problem.
He also said if the head gasket is cracked the car will have to be thrown as it isn't worth paying out for.
TIA