OT;Ohhh the pain..

[filip00]

i think Jeff has a point here. i honestly think you made a mistake (don't wanna give you lectures, i apologize), when you gave your son money to buy a worthless heap when you saw it's trash. after all, if you do solve the papers and register the car, let your son deal with it and he might pull out a good lesson out of it. i'm saying all this because i'm kinda his age, 23....and i think i can relate to him...it was certainly hard to say no to a car you wanted to buy, but still you had to say no for him there.
anyhow you guys bought that car now, not like you'll suffer those 25 hundred. this is a lesson to everyone, not something to really break your head for now...it happened, amen now.

[Jehu]

i think Jeff has a point here. i honestly think you made a mistake (don't wanna give you lectures, i apologize), when you gave your son money to buy a worthless heap when you saw it's trash. after all, if you do solve the papers and register the car, let your son deal with it and he might pull out a good lesson out of it. i'm saying all this because i'm kinda his age, 23....and i think i can relate to him...it was certainly hard to say no to a car you wanted to buy, but still you had to say no for him there.
anyhow you guys bought that car now, not like you'll suffer those 25 hundred. this is a lesson to everyone, not something to really break your head for now...it happened, amen now.

I buckled under pressure.. I didn't see a viable option and hoped for the best.. we were mislead by the seller about the previous ownership status though too,it had no registration with it which is why it was unable to be registered there. Its not good for a car to sit outside for a year without being started. Why he doesn't realize these things is beyond me. His mother keeps telling me "he's smart" implying he is above average only lazy... that is talk... he lives with her she allowed him to get away with being lazy.. I just see no motivation from him to learn what he should . I sent him links to all the BMW forums so he could get an understanding of what ownership of that car involves but the only time I heard about his having checked them out was his mother telling me he was "upset" when he read my post about this on another bimmer forum where I solicited the help of people who live near them to go and give him a hand seeing what the car needs and where the local shops are if he can manage to pay for any repairs it needs. I sent him a full set of new tail lights I bought on ebay and had them shipped to their new house but as simple of a job as swapping out ONE broken tail light lens is he hasn't even bothered to do that! I guess I resent them not listening to me. Weather they presumed I was ignorant like them and so just never bothered to listen to me or what I don't know but there was a break down of intelligent discipline and I am not pleased to be the one bearing the expense. For $2,500 I expected to be buying a 525i 5sd that ran and was immediately ready for driving both mechanically and legally.. the degree from which this car proves to deviate from that will determine the level of rage I unleash on my surroundings,lol...