Do you pay towards the running costs of your teens car?

[wickedwitchofthenorth]

We bought SD a car for her 17th birthday on the understanding that she would pay the insurance.

DH and I have so far paid for the first 12 months tax, first MOT, parts, and half of all petrol. I think It's time she took responsibility for things herself now. She's 19 and working f/t but off to uni this month and leaving the car here. It'll be out of MOT when she gets back and I know she wont do anything about it, she'll be expecting DH to sort it out for her.

Just wondering what others do before I start to have a moan at DH and SD.

To be honest, I think if you're buying something like a car as a gift then you need to think about the long term implications of that. If she's going away to university she won't have the money to keep it on the road I wouldn't have thought. She'll struggle even to find the insurance surely?

We can just about pay the running costs of our family car

Wouldn't even consider paying for the children's. They will have to get their own and pay for it themselves when they are able.

Nice of you to buy her a car if you are in a position to do so but agree with what TFM says.

We paid for everything except petrol for Dd when she was at uni. She has now left uni and has paid her insurance for the first time. She had enough pressures without worrying about money. If she had been working full time that would have been a different story.

I think it depends on whether you can afford to pay, and if you're happy to do it. Sounds like you're not, wickedwitchofthenorth.

How often will she be home? Might it be better to sell the car and put the money aside for a future car, when she'll need one again?

Wow! Can you adopt us? We'll pay for the insurance .

My dad definitely had the means, but he refused to buy us a car, ever, as a matter of principle.

My sister and I still here and we have a great relationship with Papa, too .

I'd flog it if you're not willing to pay MOT on it.

when i got my first car my mum and dad paid half towards it but then i paid for everything else myself..

for my 1st car my dad paid everything and gave me a tank of petrol (about 400 miles) per month too

then my sister past her test and i had to share the car... 3 weeks later i bought my own (could NOT share a car when i had been used to my own car for so long) and i have paid every penny for my cars since then... which meant i was paying for my own car from and during my final year of Uni...

the joint car then became my sisters and it got old and rusty and went to the scrap yard 18 months after she finished uni so by then was working full time (which was about 18 months ago) so then she has bought herself a new(er) car and my dad only now pays for one car (his own )

spoilt child!