r/Assistance • u/Whimzycott • 12h ago
REQUEST Car's Alternator
I'm on disability, I get close to $1000/mo. All of my money goes to paying bills. I have two people who depend on me to get them to and from work on almost a daily basis. One of them is my roommate who is also unfortunately tight on money to the point where she can't help more than she already has. After helping sometime last week she's basically broke for the next two weeks since she gets paid biweekly. The other she's already contributed $200 and another friend contributed $50. It also doesn't help that I'm on food stamps and have to wait as long as I usually do to get my groceries for the month, and I got that snap payment on the 7th, I haven't been able to go shopping since the car shut down, and been basically living off ramen and water for the past couple weeks.
The problem is my car's alternators are shot. The old one apparently was putting out too much voltage while the replacement we got isn't putting out enough voltage. It's going to take too much time to return the replacement to get a refund on the replacement which we spent around $160 to get. I'm currently left with $115.70 to my name. And to get a replacement alternator today would cost $335.39(thats including the core deposit charge). Leaving me needing $219.69.
I'm not sure if I need to specify what things I have that people could send to or donate to, but I do have Paypal and Venmo. I hope that I've done everything right, I've read the requirements and such.
If you need to know where I'm located I'm in the northeast of the US. And to be clear about the specified amount that I would need, it's $219.69. I talked with the guy who helped me put in the replacement alternator we got and he told me we could get one today but it'd cost $258.39 + a $77 core deposit.
Sorry if I typed too much I'm just trying to make sure I give whatever info I can.