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Maintenance & Repair To Fix Up or Trade Up, That is the Question
536 messages, Last post on Jul 24, 2009 at 9:12 AM
You are in the Maintenance & Repair Forum. Your Host is mr_shiftright
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Replying to: lokki (Jan 29, 2009 12:36 pm) |
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A reporter is looking to talk to consumers who are either fixing his/her car or having a mechanic fix up their vehicle instead of purchasing a new one. Please send your email address and phone number to ctalati edmunds.com by Wednesday, February 25, 2009.
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Replying to: lemmer (Aug 28, 2008 12:26 pm)
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Replying to: rho1953 (Apr 30, 2009 12:11 pm)
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Replying to: qbrozen (Apr 30, 2009 12:13 pm) The odds (some may exceed the odds, some may not make the odds, but MOST will just about meet the odds) say that at around 175,000K a typical car is just about washed up. That means of course that if you replace a transmission on a car with 135,000 miles on it, that is no guarantee that the rest of the car won't give up the ghost soon after. And if you divide a car's lifetime into say 4 segments, from 0-50K, 50K-100K etc etc, the last two segments are going to be way more expensive than the first two. In theory, you can keep ANY car, even a Yugo, running for one million miles. Why not? All you have to do is keep pouring money into it.
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Replying to: Mr_Shiftright (Apr 30, 2009 12:28 pm) True, just look at Cuba. Maybe now that they are relaxing travel restrictions, I'll take a trip down there and pick up a nice '57 Chevy.
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Replying to: oldfarmer50 (Apr 30, 2009 2:26 pm)
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Replying to: Mr_Shiftright (Apr 30, 2009 3:07 pm)
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Replying to: fezo (Apr 30, 2009 6:20 pm) Of COURSE Sam Walton can afford to drive an old pick-up truck - he has money! If anything goes wrong with his truck, he just drives one of his other cars and has it fixed. Cigarette burn in the upholstry? Replace the seat. Scratch in the paint? Have the truck repainted. He can AFFORD to repair whatever's necessary. A poor guy can't afford to own an OLD car and make those repairs - he needs a NEW car with a warranty so somebody else will pay for the repairs. I'm not sure I actually believe all that, but it shut him up for a looooong time 
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Replying to: lokki (May 01, 2009 6:18 am) It's not easy to spend $3600 a year on an old used car that you desperately need for work, but I'm sure some people are doing that very thing as we speak.
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