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On Sun, 29 Mar 2020 14:30:08 -0400, wrote: On Sun, 29 Mar 2020 12:11:26 -0400, John wrote: On Sun, 29 Mar 2020 11:26:54 -0400, wrote: On Sun, 29 Mar 2020 07:50:30 -0400, John wrote: On Sat, 28 Mar 2020 23:22:36 -0400, wrote: On Sat, 28 Mar 2020 14:53:45 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 3/28/2020 1:12 PM, Tim wrote: John H - show quoted text - The new Ford 150 looks like a super truck. My SIL got one through the company, and he loves it. - show quoted text -“ Can’t afford to buy new but would love to have one I may change my mind when I start seriously looking. A new vehicle every 3-4 years is one unnecessary luxury I still afford myself though. I seem to be more like a 20 year cycle but I am not as rich as you ;-) I keep thinking I should get rid of my 97 Honda but I can't think of why. I am going to run it till it blows up, call AAA, have it towed, take my tags and mail them the title. Right now we have three vehicles in the driveway and only one driver. I really should get rid of something. I need a truck, my wife won't ride an anything but the Lincoln and I still like driving my Honda so I guess that is that. I keep thinking I want a car. Looking at old Mercedes diesels or something like a Honda civic or crv. The only advantage it would have would be better mileage than the truck. But then I think of the cost of the car, insurance, maintenance, taxes, and gas, and realize it would probably take me about 47 years to break even on the fuel cost savings. So, I still don't have the auto. -- === You can pick up older Mercedes diesels for fairly reasonable prices. We just sold a 2007 E320 with 130K miles on it for $3K, the Kelly bluebook price. The car still looked great and ran very well most of the time. It had begun to develop some annoying electronic glitches however that our mechanic couldn't get a handle on. It was a v6 turbo diesel that developed 400 ft-lbs of torque and got over 30 mpg. The fuel range on trips was close to 700 miles. Except for the glitches it was still a great car that will probably go another 70K miles or more. That's more or less what I've been looking at. Sound like your buyer got a good deal. I wouldn't mind putting a few bucks into it. -- === Our buyer was the local CarMax since that is the quickest and cleanest way to sell that I'm aware of. Since it was over 10 years old they were going to auction it off, and I doubt that they made much money on the deal. I didn't want to be bothered with a private sale and possible recriminations from a disgruntled purchaser. The biggest issue with older luxury cars is maintenance. The cars may be a bargain but parts and service are not. That is one thing about my Prelude, Turn it over and it is a Civic so parts are available and if you are OK with after market parts, cheap. I haven't really replaced much but Advance Auto seems to have it. The vehicles for at least 20+ years have been pretty impressive for needing repair. When you understand how much more technology is in the vehicles and really how few problems most have in the same amount of time, most 50-60’s cars were worn out. My 2004 Chevy 2500 in 150,000 miles still ran great. Seats were getting broke down, they changed the front hubs at 60,000 miles, but was probably my own fault for abusing them. Forgot and towed the boat back 150 miles at freeway speed in 4x4 mode. One hub made noise and the dealer mechanic said the other was a little out of tolerance, so replaced it also. And the CD changer went out, so replaced with an Alpine nav unit. And a fuel pressure regulator at 140,000 and power steering hose at 150,000. Oh, a water pump at maybe 110,000. Brakes at 80,000. |
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