Is DH BU to spend £500 to keep an £800 car going?

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He says "better the devil you know" whereas I think spending over half the value of the car to keep it going seems bonkers when we could scrape £2,000 together to buy a different (newer and maybe better) car...

It has an MOT for a year so the work doing is not vital (cam belt and water pump) but if it doesn't get done and the car dies it could be even more expensive...

What to doooo?

Of course he is!!

Sell the car for 800, add to it the 500 you would have spent on it....

Hi
Any decent garage would not suggest spending this on repairs on a car of that value (I work in this industry). Hope you sort something

What is the £500 for? Replacing the cam belt is a very straight forward and cheap job - he could do it himself.

could be catastrophic not to get it done, when timing belt goes it is major major major work

have just realised with no small amount of dismay that have spent more than the value of my (admittedly free) discovery to keep it on the road - but it does more than earn that back for me each month

am not sure it is all as black and white as resale value of car, or that you might not inherit a whole fresh world of trouble with subsequent vehicle - the car I've had from new (and still only 3yrs old) has definitely had far more problems even than the clapped out old land rovers I'm so attached to

will you actually get £800 for it with the
problems it has now?

yu either spend 500 on this car or possibly 500 on another car.

Thanks for the replies, he has already phoned the garage and agreed to the work being done... d'oh...