Help with car repair expense
Not really good with words but here's what happened. I was on my way into work for one of my last days at that job before the start of a new one. As I'm going uphill, my dashboard light goes on and the screen gives me an overheating warning. I pulled over into a lot, lifted my hood, and was greeted with steam and my car leaking coolant everywhere. I had my car towed home. Then the FOLLOWING day, I had them tow the car to Ford to get the repairs. It turns out one of the radiator hoses blew, and all of them showed signs of dry rot. So, I tell them to replace ALL the hoses because if one failed, the others are on the way out too. Fast forward a little bit, I get told, hey, the bill isn't gonna be $860; it's $1900 because we forgot to add on labor... great, I don't have $1900 but okay. THEN it turns out there aren't 4 hoses; there are actually 8! So now the bill goes up again. And then when they tested the hose seals, the WATER/COOLANT PUMP seized up and leaked. It turns out that from the factory, the pump was missing a gasket, bringing the total cost of repairs to $3485.01.
I don't have $3500 but have paid off some of the repairs. I've been choosing to pay rent, hoping that I had extra left over to put towards the repair bill. Unfortunately, that isn't the case and I have exhausted my savings as well, any help would be greatly appreciated.