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DH's truck didn't start yesterday. When we got home in the evening I wasn't able to jump it because the snow drifts were too high. I couldn't get close enough. Since I'm on holiday he's using my car until the weekend.
He drives an '06 Nissan Frontier. It has <100k miles but things are starting to break. The AC cut out this summer and I guess the CD player doesn't work anymore. For whatever reason it also doesn't go faster than 60MPH. This issue is most likely the battery, so it won't be expensive but I feel like *it's beginning*. Old car expenses. Not there yet, but I see it coming. But at least for me the main issue is it's Front Wheel Drive. After it snowed 10" this weekend the roads were still unplowed when he left for work. He got stuck, I had to jump in the back for weight as it was spinning out. In previous years he's put giant wood blocks in the bed but now he says he just goes slow.
The stress of feeling like he's not safe compounded with the eerie old car failures makes me want to trade it in. We've discussed how the first big purchase we'll make after training will be getting him a new truck. He dreams of one of those monster gas guzzlers: 4 door, all wheel drive. But we don't finish training for another 2.5 years and I'm not so sure that will be the first thing on our list when he gets a signing bonus.
We don't have any consumer debt besides student loans, but we sure consumed those. Because we avoided the interview trail this year I have a small chunk of cash I expected to spend & didn't. That, plus the relative Blue Book value of the truck we could get him a used car with +/- 50k miles. I pulled up some websites last night and he was not having it. He's been dreaming of that 4 door truck for so long his immediate reaction is there's no way he'd drive a Ford Focus. He wants all wheel drive. He likes having a truck.
So what we wager is whether or not his truck will last I'll say 3-4 more years. Will it start having serious mechanical issues? And would be better to sell before we go down that road? I don't think any of this would affect me except no matter how bad my Honda Fit is in the snow it's still way safer than the idea of the back of his truck spinning out on the highway.
I spoke with another med spouse about it and her thought is car interest rates are way lower than student loans. Get what he wants now. I really, really, really do not think that will happen. I'm terrified of kicking the can. No more debt for me. Plus, as far as this goes both DH and I hate spending money. Which is part of my fear; we'll ignore the declining car which will end up costing more in the long run. Get out while we can?
He drives an '06 Nissan Frontier. It has <100k miles but things are starting to break. The AC cut out this summer and I guess the CD player doesn't work anymore. For whatever reason it also doesn't go faster than 60MPH. This issue is most likely the battery, so it won't be expensive but I feel like *it's beginning*. Old car expenses. Not there yet, but I see it coming. But at least for me the main issue is it's Front Wheel Drive. After it snowed 10" this weekend the roads were still unplowed when he left for work. He got stuck, I had to jump in the back for weight as it was spinning out. In previous years he's put giant wood blocks in the bed but now he says he just goes slow.
The stress of feeling like he's not safe compounded with the eerie old car failures makes me want to trade it in. We've discussed how the first big purchase we'll make after training will be getting him a new truck. He dreams of one of those monster gas guzzlers: 4 door, all wheel drive. But we don't finish training for another 2.5 years and I'm not so sure that will be the first thing on our list when he gets a signing bonus.
We don't have any consumer debt besides student loans, but we sure consumed those. Because we avoided the interview trail this year I have a small chunk of cash I expected to spend & didn't. That, plus the relative Blue Book value of the truck we could get him a used car with +/- 50k miles. I pulled up some websites last night and he was not having it. He's been dreaming of that 4 door truck for so long his immediate reaction is there's no way he'd drive a Ford Focus. He wants all wheel drive. He likes having a truck.
So what we wager is whether or not his truck will last I'll say 3-4 more years. Will it start having serious mechanical issues? And would be better to sell before we go down that road? I don't think any of this would affect me except no matter how bad my Honda Fit is in the snow it's still way safer than the idea of the back of his truck spinning out on the highway.
I spoke with another med spouse about it and her thought is car interest rates are way lower than student loans. Get what he wants now. I really, really, really do not think that will happen. I'm terrified of kicking the can. No more debt for me. Plus, as far as this goes both DH and I hate spending money. Which is part of my fear; we'll ignore the declining car which will end up costing more in the long run. Get out while we can?
There are Texans without trucks. Come to my side of the state and you may find more electric cars than trucks. 
It only had 35k miles on it though.
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