[Gooserider]

Glad to hear you've gotten the main problem fixed at least... Fair bit of work to go on the rest of it, but nothing that sounds to drastic or urgent.

Up to you about trading the car in, but I know I've always had a strong leaning against term payments. Every vehicle I've owned has been paid for in full at the time of purchase, and I've enjoyed not having payments to make every month, and not having to pay interest. It also saved me huge amounts on insurance as I could 'self insure' for damage to the car, and only had to pay for liability coverage. If you finance, they make you get full coverage, which costs a small fortune. I figure I save enough on each vehicle to pretty much pay for the next one. (I do the same with my plastic, it gets paid in full every month, so I never have to give the credit card company any interest...)

Gooserider