Owning any vehicle that is more than 10 years old is going to bring a never ending stream of issues. Even classic muscle cars require frequent attention. There will always be something to do to it. That is just the reality of owning an older vehicle. No one online knows your situation better than you, and I get it. I love my VX (also a '99 Ebony that I am trying to save from the salvage yard), but there I times I want to burn it to the ground out of frustration. Basically you have three choices:
1) Keep it
2) Sell it
3) Get a second vehicle for while you're in collage to use as a daily driver and keep the VX as a project vehicle.
The best advice I can give you from the internet is this.
- Decide what you want to the VX to do for you. Daily driver, off road rock crawler, overland vehicle, show car, fun toy, whatever.
- Come up with a plan to get it to where you want it to be. Don't worry about cost yet. Just build the plan and the order of things that need to be fixed, modified, or fabricated to get it where you want it to be.
- Sort the list by what is most important/most needed to you.
Once you have this list you can figure out if you can do collage and make the list happen at the same time. I know it isn't easy, or cheap. While myself and others have chosen to keep our VX's, many do not. However, should you keep it, I would recommend option 3, keep it and get a daily driver to use while you fix up the VX. You can get a used reliable car that gets good fuel economy which frees up the VX to really be ripped into for major repairs and upgrades. But even this advice may not work for your specific situation. Whatever you decide, please keep us posted.
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VX Status: Running Great! Build is coming along nicely...