Hi all, I’ve previously posted on here and had some great advice so hoping to get a little bit more please.
My daughter has wanted to get a motorbike and we had agreed to put some pennies towards it but after various discussions and a post on here, in the end we opted to pay towards her learning to drive a car. She organised driving lessons earlier this year and has completed two blocks (10 in total).
In May I bought a new (to me) second-hand car to replace a 20 year old Vauxhall Astra. The Astra was fine but just ‘getting on a bit’ and it was time for an upgrade. At the time, in May, we decided that because the car wasn’t worth anything, that we would offer it to our daughter to practice her driving between lessons and once she passed her test she could use it as her car. It probably doesn’t have much life left in it but it’s good enough to start out with. We said to her that she would be responsible for paying the insurance and the tax and any MOT etc. At the time she didn’t have a regular job - she was still at school and so we said she’d need to get a regular source or income to be able to cover the costs. In the meantime we took it off the road and our neighbours kindly agreed to
let it sit in our shared driveway in the meantime.
she left school in June and she had to be hugely cajoled into getting some form of employment as she left school at the beginning of June with no plan and in the end it was a whole family effort to help her apply for jobs, etc. She eventually started her full time job in October.
in the meantime, the driving lessons have lapsed - she hasn’t booked the next block and has left it so long. She would have to do weekends now due to her job and the instructor doesn’t have space until April.
we’ve asked her what is her plan with the car - it’s been sat on the driveway since May - no effort from her to get a job in the first instance - although she now has one. I’ve asked her what’s happening with her lessons - she can’t get in with the instructor until April. I’ve said she’ll need to find a new one if she wants to carry on. She’s only looked for insurance quotes and tax when pushed.
I’ve now given her an ultimatum and said that if she hasn’t sorted the insurance and tax out (we have told her we can help her with this if needed) by the end of this week then we will have to get rid of the car. It’s sat there doing nothing on the back of the shared drive for over six months now.
my question really is, are we being fair if we say to her that at the end of this week that we will have to get rid of the car now because she doesn’t seem that interested in driving lessons and/or sorting it out so she can practice in it. It’s a shared driveway that it’s sat on and it can’t be there forever and ever.