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Originally Posted by lland
"...will need new tires and some other expensive maintenance..."
I can understand tires but "other expensive maintenance" at 33,000 miles? What is it going to need at 50,000? No quite known for reliability. You may be getting it at a fair price, but at what cost?
LL
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No, my current car needs new tires and the maintenance. It's almost to 100k, and at 100k it needs a timing belt, water pump, and valve adjustment. Easily a $1500 job to get it done at a good shop (would probably take it to a good honda mechanic or the honda dealership. I'd probably want to get the tranny flushed at the same time.. It also needs new tires, which would be 600-700, and I need my wheel fixed when I do tires (its bent and leaks air) for 100-150, and new brakes. So I'm looking at somewhere between 2000-2500 in upkeep. But after that it should be good for... well however long the tires last. It'll be paid off in at most 2 years as well, and should have plenty of life left in it then.
But the question is if I will still want it then, I mean I'm already not thrilled with it now. The fiscal conservative side of me says it'll be fine still, and that it'd be a great DD so i could get something super nice and not drive it too much (I still love the Jeep SRT8s, or maybe an Audi S4 Avant, or S5, who knows?). But the inner hoon in me is like "its not fast enough! get something new that is faster, cooler, and doesn't rattle!".
Oh well, now's not the time to be worrying about this I suppose.