…Sounds like one of my Dad’s cars. He has owned, or has known someone who owned every car made before 1989 and every single one of them was a piece of junk.
This one was a 2000 and it’s been very reliable, but at 25 years old, it’s hard to justify thousands of dollars worth of repairs. But I definitely got my money’s worth out of it and I’ll miss the old reliable Elder Car.
I really liked our last car but it just got too old to keep fixing and the cost of repairs was getting to be more than a car payment, so we did the math and decided that since we don’t commute anymore and rarely go anywhere, and counting a car pay ment for a new one plus insurance, registration, gas, maintenance, winter tires, etc. it was a lot cheaper to take taxis at $6.50 a trip a few times per week and rent a car for a day or two if we really needed to out of town, a LOT cheaper. If we lived nearer the stores the walk would do us good, but it’s just far enough not to want to lug grocery bags down a long hill in the winter, or summer and there’s no buses here so taxis it is, the drivers need to eat too 🙂
Yeah, that’s what happened here too. I just couldn’t justify putting more money into the car because the repair costs were adding up and and coming too frequently. But, given where we live and keeping up with Xena’s stuff outside of school going down to one car wasn’t feasible for us (and our grocery store is definitely too far away for me to walk!).
It was fifteen years old and if we had a garage it would probably have lasted longer but the salt on the roads and sitting in the driveway all year round didn’t do it any good and the frame finally fell apart 🙁 it happened so fast, it passed the safety check with no problems and the garage said we should get years more out of it, then six months later it rusted through in at least four places and that was that. We’d just had it repainted the year before too and the body shop said it was in great shape.
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Tourma
…Sounds like one of my Dad’s cars. He has owned, or has known someone who owned every car made before 1989 and every single one of them was a piece of junk.
Hope you’re new one is not like that. ^_^
SurlyQueen
This one was a 2000 and it’s been very reliable, but at 25 years old, it’s hard to justify thousands of dollars worth of repairs. But I definitely got my money’s worth out of it and I’ll miss the old reliable Elder Car.
Llywenna
I really liked our last car but it just got too old to keep fixing and the cost of repairs was getting to be more than a car payment, so we did the math and decided that since we don’t commute anymore and rarely go anywhere, and counting a car pay ment for a new one plus insurance, registration, gas, maintenance, winter tires, etc. it was a lot cheaper to take taxis at $6.50 a trip a few times per week and rent a car for a day or two if we really needed to out of town, a LOT cheaper. If we lived nearer the stores the walk would do us good, but it’s just far enough not to want to lug grocery bags down a long hill in the winter, or summer and there’s no buses here so taxis it is, the drivers need to eat too 🙂
SurlyQueen
Yeah, that’s what happened here too. I just couldn’t justify putting more money into the car because the repair costs were adding up and and coming too frequently. But, given where we live and keeping up with Xena’s stuff outside of school going down to one car wasn’t feasible for us (and our grocery store is definitely too far away for me to walk!).
Llywenna
It was fifteen years old and if we had a garage it would probably have lasted longer but the salt on the roads and sitting in the driveway all year round didn’t do it any good and the frame finally fell apart 🙁 it happened so fast, it passed the safety check with no problems and the garage said we should get years more out of it, then six months later it rusted through in at least four places and that was that. We’d just had it repainted the year before too and the body shop said it was in great shape.
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