Or at least the end of my independence. Sold my beloved car today, as the stroke means I am not allowed to drive.
Devastated.
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You may or may not drive in the future. There are many threads on here about recovering your licence and battling the DVLA.
Until you know there is no point spending money to maintain a car you can’t drive.
If you can drive in future you may need a different car e.g. an automatic.
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Sorry yo hear this @Dexster but never give up hope, you never know what round the corner.
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I can only empathise - I had to give up my beloved car a couple of years ago for different reasons. It was devastating for me but I have got used to not having it and travel by public transport. Luckily where I live, this is not so bad, but it is one of the reasons I had to let go of my car. The horrid London Mayor introduced rules which mean I would have had to pay ÂŁ12.50 each day I used the car. It is a totally unfair tax that he has introduced as my car was well looked after but it caught caught on the grounds of age. Agism is rife!
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Sorry to hear this. It is difficult to accept when these things are out of your control. Don’t give up though there may be a chance in the future that you can return to driving,
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I can really empathise with you on this. I had to sell my car after my stroke and (living in a rural area) I felt really isolated. I had to rely on my husband (who wasn’t in the best of health) to transport me everywhere. I did, however, a year or so later, buy another car, which was adapted for me to drive and haven’t looked back since. Never say never.
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Oh my! So sorry to hear that x
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Really sorry to hear this
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After stroke, I too had to sell my vehicle, a beloved Nissan Micra, a chassis on a lawnmower motor with wind down windows and a tape player 
. However, I found driving stressful and, generally, unpleasant. I much preferred riding my bicycle which was true freedom for me. Having said that, I understand that feeling you express of losing independence. It may seem like the end of an era but it could be a bridging era before getting back into the driver’s seat. I have spent the last five years, financially better off to be frank, silver linings and all that. Now, after repeated vision tests with my optician and an upcoming appointment at the Ophthalmologists, I have bought myself an electric moped. Happy compromise between a car and a bicycle. That’s five years of saving up for one mind you, probably couldn’t have done it if I had to pay for car insurance, MOT and petrol. So as @MinnieB says … never say never.
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