To take my car when I leave?

[BartsMum]

I have posted this in another thread but this one is just focussed on the car. Basically Im leaving my partner in two weeks. The car is mine. The loan which is paying for it is in my name. I am the registered keeper and owner. But presently DP uses the car for work and cannot get to work without it.
When I leave, I do not want to leave the car. I need it. But he will argue that I'm costing him his job by taking it and leaving him with no way of getting to work.

AIBU to take the car and say "its not my problem you can't get to work" ??

If you give him back the £200 he can buy a clunker with some T&T for that. If he's lucky, it'll last long enough for him to save up a bit more.

How he gets to work is not your problem. The relationship is over, so you take what is yours. He hasn't contributed that much and has had use of the car. Reimburse him for what he has spent if you want, but take the car

Logically, you have to take the car, as registered keeper you'd be the one to carry the can for anything associated with that car.

I'm not suggesting he'd do anything deliberate, but merely parking tickets could clock up costs for you, and if something was done which caused the car to be impounded, or worse, crushed, you would certainly have problems.

Have you some estimate of what has been spent so far (to get his 200 pounds contribution into perspective). I don't think you should feel any responsibility to compensate/ refund him, especially if he would not offer to do the same if things were reversed.

It is his problem not yours-take the car but offer him some of the money he has paid-not all because he has had the use of the car all this time.It is your car.