Philadelphia Car Storage Question

deb922
Wed, 10 Apr 2013 13:49:07 +0000

I wonder if anyone else has this problem with cars and their kids. My kids had summer jobs in there college towns and then had the car there for senior year of college. D lived in a city and had on street parking. It was an older import car while having higher miles ran pretty well

First, once she found a good parking spot she didn’t want to drive the car and lose said parking spot. She thought she wanted the car to go grocery shopping and regular shopping but she didn’t have much time so usually walked to the store or her boyfriend drove. Once the car wasn’t being driven it started having problems. Nothing big but new brakes and usual maintenance items. We had no contacts in the new city so it was a hassle to find a place to get it fixed. And she was super busy so she didn’t have time. This happened to both of my kids. My S had a dead battery since he didn’t drive it much and he was too busy and so finally I had it towed to replace the battery. It was a very expensive battery. Besides I was paying for insurance for a car that wasn’t being driven. It wasn’t convenient for anyone and a pain for me to deal with. I’m not even going to talk about the parking tickets.

The last straw for me was when the brake lights wouldn’t work and no one had time to replace the fuse or take it somewhere to be fixed. So it sat there until the battery was dead and the tire was flat.

I know I’m being a curmudgeon about the whole thing, but it would have been cheaper to use zip car (but the kids hated them because the cars were shrink wrapped and “embarrassing”). Having a car was good when they had a job and drove it everyday.