Noooo... transmission crapping out!

[Brian]

Well, many of you already know of my Vintage '95 Chevy Lumina. I don't really need to explain the greatness of this classic. Unfortunately the transmission has decided it wants to slowly go bye-bye. To fix this problem, it will burn a nice $1800 hole in my pocket. Now, because I am so horrendously poor, I am going to have to wait out the problem until I have the cash for some options. While I would hate to get rid of my baby, really don't know if I want to spend that kind of money and still have a... shitty car :-(

So I either have to spend $1800 to rebuild the transmission, spend a couple thousand on a new used car, or get a new car with the lowest monthly payments I can get. So far I am thinking I can ride out the problem for a while, just prolong its death, and start planning to make ~$300 payments on a Scion tC or something.

Due to the nature of the problem, which is with the overdrive, I think I can just put it in drive and last a good while.

[Kurtis]

another extra cost with a new car is going to be insurance. remember, with a new car you have to have full coverage, thats expensive :-\

[SAMSAMHA]

I think buy a new car is probably a better choice, as you really would ended up spending more money fixing the old car.

[Brian]

Well yeah. But I just got a nice drop in insurance, so it will probably go back up to where it was before if not a little more.

[SAMSAMHA]

that's true, but general case is once the car is starting to fail, you will ended up paying more money fixing this and that. It's really not worth that much I think. Just think, if you pay little here and there, it all adds up.