<prompt> Human: My beloved shitwagon 2004 sun-bleached Chevy Cavalier, which I bought for 1100 may be on its way out according to my car dealer dad. Yesterday, my 4th day of work, my car got stuck in the back alley because it was out of steering fluid and I had to take an uber to work. My dad put steering fluid in the car and is going to fix my muffler this weekend, but he thinks that steering fluid is leaking into the rack and pinion. He is not happy. Other than that, the car has had no issues, besides being ugly in his mind. Its at 150k miles right now. He wants to put me in a new Focus because there are better incentives but I am not so sure. I had a leased Sentra repoed 2 years ago after losing my job, and would prefer to never finance again. Ideally, I only want to get a used car at 5K or below in cash, but may not have enough time to save up for it. I only have 2000 cash and 500 in savings, as I am a new grad with a new job and just got my first paycheck today, which was short. For the remaining 108 days of the school year, Ill be making 22,450 before taxes and retirement, which will go up to 46k next school year. I want to ride it till it dies, but my dad says the leak will be 500 to fix. Im wondering if it is worth it to put another 500 bucks in the car What would be the most fiscally responsible decision?  <response>: 500 is less than 2 payments on a new car. So fix it. If it lasts more than 60 days you are winning the game. Anyway you cant sell the ring without repairing it first. 