Joel Garboden

Hello all,

I'm a starving college student who hasn't driven my car more than a couple times in the past 14 months. I have a Ninja 250 as my primary mode of transportation, and my car is just sitting in the driveway collecting weather and degrading.

Car: 2001 Cavalier Sedan, 2.2L, Automatic transmission with manual everything else, 140,000 miles

Some of the following issues were minorly present before she sat for a year, some of which have greatly elevated since then. If I didn't list something, it's probably in good condition.

• Front driver strut makes noise
• Cracked windshield (About 1/3 of windshield, most of the crack diagonally upward)
• Burning oil smell, possibly just leftover from fixed oil leak
• Flasher relay is dead, have to manually 'blink' signals
• Interior lights/dash fades in and out when idling, driving, playing music, all the time.
• Some paint scratches in bumper from scraping against a concrete pillar in parking garage. And general pain flaking on bumper
• Rotors are warped
• Pulsing brakes, because of the rotors
• General maintenance
• Turning the steering wheel makes... groaning noises.
• Battery doesn't hold a charge for more than a day, two year old battery

What price range am I looking at to get my car fixed up?
Is it worth fixing her up if I have another vehicle? Emphasis on starving college student.

tech2

fix it if your college major is motive power otherwise you will be into more than the car is worth is someone has to do the work for you.

I rode the bus when i was a college student.

If you college has an automotive program they usually are looking for cars to repair. You would buy the parts and they would install them.