Just want my car in my name

[Sugarkane]

I know I've posted this before and but if it's not a new motorbike, everything goes in one eat and out the other with my dad. All he does is endlessly complain and never gets the job done. He does this all the time eg with housework, even though he never does housework because he's "The man". How do I finally get this BS resolved? This prick doesn't listen.

[Els]

Wait, so you paid for your car but it's in your dad's name???

[Sugarkane]

Long story short I didn't have all my details at the time we bought it. 7 years later he still hasn't put it in my name.

[Els]

'We' bought it? So who paid for it?

[Sugarkane]

I paid every cent of it. He paid nothing.

[Els]

So you paid for a car but didn't bring your details to register for it and it's in your dad's name. And only 7 years later you are trying to change it, rather than the next day with your details in hand. Going to be difficult, especially if your dad is dragging his feet.

 

It's a 7 year old car. What do you feel it's worth after depreciation? If it isn't much, just let it go, and don't do something so utterly silly the next time. I'm sorry, but it really was silly. If you don't have all your details on you, you come back the next day, you don't put it under someone else's name and leave it there. No wonder your parents have so much control over you, you're practically tightening the leash over your own head.

[Sugarkane]

As I've said before Ive asked him numerous times and each time I got " you'll get a new car soon, then we will change it". Then he endlessly complains how he doesn't have time, even though he gets more time off than I do. What was I supposed to do?

[Els]

"Just let it go, and don't do something so utterly silly the next time."

 

You could appeal to the law with a sales invoice under your name, depending on the rules of your country (I don't know about car ownership laws in Aussie). But if you'd let it go on for 7 years already, I'm not betting on your chances of forcing the issue. Your dad obviously isn't going to do anything if he's not done anything for 7 years.

[Sugarkane]

What should I do? And hilariously he always complains that everyone ignores him! I'm sorry but I'm really mad.

[Els]

"Just let it go, and don't do something so utterly silly the next time."

[Sugarkane]

And all I get is him always complaining he has no time. Yet he sits on his fat ass while his home. Or complains about visiting his mother who was abusive. What do I say?

[Sugarkane]

So what do I do? All I wanted was my car, in my name. Yet it was too much too ask for.

[pink_sugar]

My husband and I did something foolish and sold our last reliable car (in his name) for a hunk of junk and wasted money. Thankfully, I barely was able to get another loan for another car. He put down what we got for the last car, but this car is in my name because my income and credit was only slightly better than his. (His income wasn't high enough). We were close not having at car at all with bad credit and limited income. It was a terrible, terrible mess that almost rendered a divorce. It's over now and there's no way to change it. All you can do is make sure you don't make the same mistake again and move forward, lesson learned.

Edited January 16, 2013 by pink_sugar