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[quote=Anonymous]I'd probably sell the current car and put its proceeds + the 2K in non-repairs towards a newer used car, but the need for it under these circumstances sounds totally justified.

You could also potentially plan the move to school to last a little longer, drive the existing car out there in order to see how it performed, and then either get repairs done or trade it in for something else when you arrived at the school destination, but that would mean having the time to go out early and negotiate the whole thing out there.  It would be an experiment but also potentially a headache.

I think that one additional step I might plan at this stage is purposely doing some more (potentially lots more) rural driving with DC prior to the move to school.  I grew up in the suburbs, and my spouse grew up in a small town surrounded by farmland.  Driving behaviors in Small Town are necessarily very different (passing in the oncoming traffic, for example, which is totally legal; watching for cars popping out of zero-visibility side roads that lead straight into fields and look too small to be real streets).  Some rural areas also have many more blind curves, deep-ditch dropoffs that are designed to prevent off-road spinouts, hills, and the like.  The weather could also present new, additional challenges.  Make sure DC is ready for the very different kind of driving that the landscape around  the college might present, because although the car may be designated for the ag barn commute, that is surely not the only place DC and the car will ever go.

Congrats to DC, and best wishes for a great college career![/quote]

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