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The original was posted on /r/AmItheAsshole by /u/Eagleclaw488 on 2023-08-05 14:52:36.
So my cousin recently crashed her car, I don’t quite know how she managed it but she somehow hit a concrete bollard head on, luckily for her I fix crashed cars for a living and the damage wasn’t too bad so I agreed to fix it for her for the cost of parts.
I managed to find most of the parts second hand but the one thing I couldn’t find was the radiator, I had to order a brand new one. I had all of the other parts and was Just waiting on the radiator when I got notified of a shipping delay and it won’t be here for an extra couple of weeks.
My cousin desperately needed the car back because her work is an hour’s drive away, and my local public transport system is so awful that she was late every day and her boss was getting more and more annoyed. Her original radiator was bent but it wasn’t leaking at all, so I told her I could put that one back in for now as a temporary fix but she’d have to keep a very close eye on it because it could spring a leak at any time. She agreed so I put the car back together, threw an extra bottle of coolant in the boot just in case and sent her on her way.
Three days later I get a call from her stranded at the side of the road because the car had died on her on the way home from work. I take a look and sure enough the radiator had started leaking, she didn’t keep an eye on it so it’s run out of coolant and cooked the engine, it’ll need a replacement engine to get back on the road. Apparently this is all my fault because I knew the radiator was damaged, so despite my warnings she thinks I should pay for the replacement engine, but I don’t think it’s on me at all because she ignored my warnings and never even looked at the temperature gauge, so aita?