my father-in-law

[kellyalex27]

Me and my husbands vehicle recently broke down and his father happen to have a extra truck we could drive. Well we drove it for 3 months and changed the oil when needed and kept it up until one day it started over heating and the thermostat was getting stuck well we put antifreeze in it and water. Well it got to where you couldnt drive it with out it over heating so we were prepared to pay to get it fixed if it was something small.Come to find out the heads were warped on the truck now the truck is 9 yrs old and this problem is something that takes time to do. Anyway we gave his father 500.00 to get it fixed and come to find out it was gonna cost 750.00 just for LABOR plus we had to buy the parts. So i said to my husband well we can pay half and your dad pay half and he said it was our place to pay all of it. Im sorry but that is just asking to much when it was something that happened over time and just cause wew happen to be driving it when it went out dont mean we should be responsible for All of it. His dad knows we are in bad financial shape right now and he on the other hand is not but either way its not fair and i feel we are being takin advantage of. Can anyone comment on this and tell me if im wrong about all this? Thanks

[redcrx]

Your FIL lent you a vehicle to use, presumably until yours was fixed, and now youve broken his car youre complaining?

You shouldve got yours fixed when you had the chance eh?

[bednobs]

it seems to me you are n the wrong. I think that 750 (dollars or pounds) to drive a vehicle for 3 months is very reasonable - 250 a month, and if we are talking of dollars thats about �125 a month - very reasnable rates if you ask me I'm sorry you feel taken advantage of but if i was the dad, iwould feel taken advantage of - lent someone my truck and now theyve broken it they want me to pay for repairs!. it would be different if you'd have had it for a week or two weeks, but you've had it for 3 months. you are respnsible for the repairs

[Postdog]

Yep, you're wrong - the word ingrate springs to mind.

[Stu Dent]

You may have had a point if, very shortly after you'd been driving the truck, you noticed it was overheating.

But the truck very clearly went faulty when you had been driving it. You are extremely fortunate to only be picking up half of the bill, because:

You noticed that the truck was overheating and that it was losing water. But you continued to drive the vehicle AFTER you knew there was a problem. Did you think that the problem was going to go away just by topping up the coolant?

Sounds to me that the original problem was caused by lack of coolant being in the cooling system, or that the cylinder head gasket was leaking. If it was the latter then the part would have been very cheap though with high maintenance costs - it's a big job! But by continuing to drive the car and worsen the original fault, you and your husband are directly responsible for warping the cylinder head. Now you need a reconditioned haead plus the cheap gasket that might only have been needed in the first place.

I appreciate that you may be short of cash, but not maintaining a vehicle is a false economy. It costs more financially in the long run. Don't fall out with your family about it - and yes, no offence meant but, you are very clearly wrong.

[ethanryan]

i dont agree, i feel if the windows had been smashed or you had a bump then yes you are responsible for it, but as it sounds like general wear and tear that dont happen over night i think that going half is more than fair, especially as it is a old vehicle

[Stu Dent]

Geral wear and tear may have caused the original fault - the overheating. That is disputable. What is indisputable is that the car being driven regularly AFTER the fault occured means that the vehicle was damaged more seriously.

"Well it got to where you couldnt drive it with out it over heating".

They melted the cylinder head!!

[Dee Sa]

sorry but if you dont pay up there will be bad feeling for a long time to come, just learn a lesson from all this.

[flflflflflfl]

i think he is being unfair as you did not cause this problem and it would have happened to him. yes you were unlucky enough to be borrowing it when the inevitable happened so he should count himself lucky you are decent enough to offer to pay half the cost of his expensive repair.