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Old Jul 23, 2012 | 12:36 PM
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Default Do I sell or do I press on?

I have a Honda Camino (Stop laughing ) That I bought a while a go now.

After saving up for my CBT and then having to wait another week to afford to buy insurance, I finally got to take her on the road.

All was well until she died at a busy junction (Probably the most embarrasing moment of my life so far )

I discovered that the battery was completely dead so a new one was bought and it worked fine... until I was sat at the red light in town and she died again. Luckily no one saw this.

After finally being able to get her to idle ANOTHER problem arose. At full throttle, there's no power what-so-ever. Effectively, I can limp her around at about 7mph.

I went to go into the garage today and voila... a nice big puddle of Petrol She also spits oil or oil/fuel (It's a 2 stroke) out of the exhaust.

So what do I do? Sell her? I reckon I can get about £200 for her, £250 if I'm lucky, but with what I've got saved added to that then take out £50 for cancelling the insurance, I'd still only have about £300 for a replacement (How much the honda cost). I really don't want to miss the whole summer so really I'd have £400 at the very most to buy a replacement.

So, do I sell her and risk going through the whole thing gain or do I keep her and keep trying to get the bloody thing working?

P.S Car is not an option. There's no way I can afford to insure one at all.

Thanks
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