Thread: fixup current car vs save up and buy a newer used car

Current car is 2005 impala ls,250 000 kilometres on it.
issues are
transmission need replacing again, still drives but it bangs into gear from a stop pretty often(already replaced it once 4 years ago)
rockers panels are completely rusted out.
1 door at the bottom is very rusty and the other doors are starting to also.
rust on front fenders where the tire sprays water/dirt.
bubbling on rear fenders and under gas cap.

Car looks great still but another year or 2 it wont lol.

Not sure what to do at this point, I like the car but its alot of time and money to put into it. and time I don't have(14-16 hour work shifts and a new born baby) I could pay my cousin to put new rockers on and go to a body shop to cut and replace the metal that's rusty then go get a vinyl wrap done to it(vinyl wrap is way cheaper then a paint job) But I feel no matter what rust I fix more will pop up specially here in canada and their salt roads..

What Is everyone's opinion?

its a impala junk it

I would search for another safer car for the family especially with your new baby and maybe just DD the imp till it dies if you can live with ghe trans issues or rusts out. I only say that because i would imagine the value isn't going to be good and you won't get much out of the imp if you tried to sell it.

Sent from BFE

I would count my loses and pick something else up. To much work needs to be done to it, and it's not worth it. Grab something else.

I would say move onto something else...would you want to stay with a Wbody or move onto a different platform all together?

Get a honduh

ya I was thinking the same thing....wifes grandparents are giving my wife their old minivan so there is the family vehicle.
so Ill drive it till the end of next year I think then hopefully have enough saved up to buy a 2010+ honda civic or some type of 4 banger 4 door grocery getter. my big rig truck is parked 1.5 miles away from my house so I just need a tiny car lol

1.5miles....... get a bicycle

Oh cmon, you guys only see what a crap ton of snow and below freezing weather almost everyday right? Commute to the truck via snowmobile!

Sent from BFE

Thats not bad, my GF lives in Regina SK and I visited durring the winter. HA, screw that noise it was cold as balls.

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ya its brutal pretty much anywhere else in canada except for southern Ontario, B.C and Vancouver

Originally Posted by Grimsin

It's not the only reason I need a car lol. And you try riding a bicycle in dead winter in Ontario.

Spring/summer/fall I plan walking to the truck.

tricycle with weedwacker motor? now we are talking