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At this pace, I'll either never change my car or will never buy a car again.

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[–] SacredHeartAttack 65 points 1 week ago (3 children)

My 17 year old car is at almost 200k miles and I just dumped over $2k into it to keep it going to a quarter million miles to try and hold off having to buy something new.

[–] kalpol 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Cheaper than a car payment.... By a lot. I budget about 1500 a year and just act like thats my car payment.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I had to give up my '08 manual transmission rear wheel drive technodumb car last month due to it finally going downhill (in its operation and in the easiest direction to push it). Will miss the fun, and the privacy.

[–] SacredHeartAttack 4 points 1 week ago

My condolences.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I buy used cars. I had an X-Trial I bought 8 years ago for £2000. It lasted 7 years. I did basic maintenance myself like brakes, oil, etc. on the end the flywheel needed replacing. To the scrap it went. Bit 2k for 7 years!