<prompt> Human: I have a 2001 Saturn that has roughly 98,000 miles and has been an awesome car. However within the past 6 months I have had to pay close to if not more in repairmaintenance fees new tires, brakes, rotors, oil changes, and two new valves which were the biggest expense than what the car is worth in trade in based on Kelley Blue Book value, roughly 1900-2300. This weekend when I had the valves replace they told me my spark plugs wires are still the factory ones and likely going to be needed to replace soon. I know transmission are the biggest expense in a car usually but the transmission was completely replace about 3-4 years ago. As far a finances I just used my whole emergency fund for repairs on this car, so its down to a 100. Yeah, for emergency funds! I make rough 1900 per month and have 1500 per month expenses in bills including groceries. Ive been using 200 of what is left to pay off my credit card bill 2000, was on track to pay it off this year but car once again and been putting 100 into savings, then using the rest to have what little fun I can. Buying a bike or walking is out of the question as I live 10 miles from my work and it is all interstate or highway to work and is completely unsafe to ride a bike, otherwise I would in a heart beat. Cant move closer as its more expensive then driving current rent.Im wondering if it might be time to sell the car and buy a new used car? Or should with my finances keep the current car and pray that nothing big shows up again. Edit: Based on the first two comments I guess I should mention this wasnt all at once and had I known there were more issues I would have considered it much sooner.  <response>: If you just dumped a bunch of money into car repairs, the car is likely to be running smoothly for awhile until those parts start wearing down. If you wanted to sell the time to do it was before you put all the money into repairs. 