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Originally Posted by REDL|NE
My beef with this, is that he did not offer to pay even a portion for the cost of a new battery. I realize that the battery may have died even if I did not go away and was driving the car, but i consider it common courtesy.
My question to you all is this: If you borrow someone's car and it something breaks, who is responsible? What is the etiquette?
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Without any additional information about what your roommate did to your car or how he drove it, it sounds like it was just normal battery wear and tear and it just happened to fail when your roommate borrowed it. Did he elaborate on when exactly the battery failed? When's the last time the battery was replaced?
My snap judgment is that your roommate doesn't owe you anything monetary. As far as I can tell, he didn't do anything to directly cause the battery to fail.
I can understand why you'd be reluctant on loaning him the car in the future, but I don't think he's clearly in the wrong here.