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What do I do with my busted-ass car?
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So here's my situation:
Late last year I moved Out West to Oregon from Indiana. I did so in my beloved '99 Subaru Forester, but found after a couple months driving across the country and then across the state looking for work the car was having issues. The issues seemed to slowly get worse no matter how many times I brought it in to my ~*Totally Trustworthy*~ mechanic, until it finally came out that the head gasket had been cracked (apparently a common problem with Subarus) and the mechanic had been too dumb or too crooked to address this issue until the gasket was completely blown out.
He gave me a ~$2000 quote to fix the issue that would have been a relatively cheap repair had he caught it earlier, and I told him to get lost, went without a ride for a while, and eventually got myself a cheap old Hyundai that has done me well so far. However, since that time I've been completely at a loss for what to do with the semi-ambulatory hunk of scrap that is my old Subaru. I was pretty successfully ignoring it until just the other day, when I found out I got an internship up in Washington, and I'm gonna be moving, and so I need to figure out a way to hopefully get rid of my Forester.
I have pretty much no mechanical aptitude when it comes to cars, beyond changing the oil.
The Subaru itself is in pretty good shape overall, and it seems a shame to just get rid of it for scrap, though I've been entertaining that option.
My dad says I should put it up on Craigslist for ~$1000, and explain about the head gasket. The Blue Book value for the car, were it in working order, is about $4000, so he thinks that there may be someone willing to buy it, repair it, and resell it, still making a profit.
My other alternative would be to get it repaired myself, swallowing that cost, and then sell it for the Blue Book value. This seems like it would take a while, and I'd probably have to leave it in the care of my dad while I was up doing this internship.
I'm sorta paralyzed with indecision, and any advice would be appreciated.
Late last year I moved Out West to Oregon from Indiana. I did so in my beloved '99 Subaru Forester, but found after a couple months driving across the country and then across the state looking for work the car was having issues. The issues seemed to slowly get worse no matter how many times I brought it in to my ~*Totally Trustworthy*~ mechanic, until it finally came out that the head gasket had been cracked (apparently a common problem with Subarus) and the mechanic had been too dumb or too crooked to address this issue until the gasket was completely blown out.
He gave me a ~$2000 quote to fix the issue that would have been a relatively cheap repair had he caught it earlier, and I told him to get lost, went without a ride for a while, and eventually got myself a cheap old Hyundai that has done me well so far. However, since that time I've been completely at a loss for what to do with the semi-ambulatory hunk of scrap that is my old Subaru. I was pretty successfully ignoring it until just the other day, when I found out I got an internship up in Washington, and I'm gonna be moving, and so I need to figure out a way to hopefully get rid of my Forester.
I have pretty much no mechanical aptitude when it comes to cars, beyond changing the oil.
The Subaru itself is in pretty good shape overall, and it seems a shame to just get rid of it for scrap, though I've been entertaining that option.
My dad says I should put it up on Craigslist for ~$1000, and explain about the head gasket. The Blue Book value for the car, were it in working order, is about $4000, so he thinks that there may be someone willing to buy it, repair it, and resell it, still making a profit.
My other alternative would be to get it repaired myself, swallowing that cost, and then sell it for the Blue Book value. This seems like it would take a while, and I'd probably have to leave it in the care of my dad while I was up doing this internship.
I'm sorta paralyzed with indecision, and any advice would be appreciated.
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There's always places junk shops that will come pick up your car and tow it away if you give it to them. This does require that you have the paperwork to sign it away. Downside to that is that at most, they'll give you a couple of hundred bucks for it.