Bastard bastard bastard car

I'm having to shell out nearly another £100 on the car. I just got the call from Kwik Fit. They can't repair the puncture as my tyres are just below the legal tread-depth. So I now have to buy 2 new tyres for the front of the car. The balance comes with the fitting (about 60 something quid) but the tracking is another 20 odd. I know for a fact from the way the car feels that the tracking is wrong, and the scuff marks on the tyre suggest the tracking is wrong, so I'm left with no choice but to pay for it.

I've got no problem with the fact that the work needs doing, I had a sneaky feeling they were going to say exactly that when I took it in. The problem I have with the whole affair is that my Mum assured me that the car would be in good working order when she gave it to me. She promised that there would be no problems, yet when I tried to drive it away one of the back wheels had seized completely, it was a fine art starting the engine, the driver's side window was screwed, the brakes then died along with the water pump, and now it turns out the tracking is screwed and so are the tyres. I've forked out over £300 on the car itself, plus over £100 on road tax and god knows how much on insurance. All this because my Mum couldn't take "no" for an answer.

The car is going at the end of July, no two ways about it.