SWMBA thinks along those lines. New cars are “more reliable” so cost less to keep on the road.
Steaming Pile She has not taken the thing she drives to the shop for other than oil changes in the past six years and 50k miles. Tossing $20k + paying it off all that time and no visit to keep it running right? She gets the jeep from her co-worker who claims it had all dealer service. The thing comes with close to 140k miles and gets no service these past four years. Now she wants to send it to the crusher, as it is falling apart from lack of service. The solution she came up with was to spend $10k to get a teenaged car with 100k on the clock last autumn. This spring she changes her tune to needing something with less than a decade of wear and maybe $18k. Which has changed to five years old, under 50k miles and maybe $25k this past month. This week the car has to be same new, but under 30k miles and the price has jumped to around $30k. Then add the $2500 to ship it up from teh lower 48. All I wanted was to be allowed to drive my ’82 SD, bring up my tools and spend enough to fix the OM617. clay > On Oct 23, 2019, at 12:24 PM, Randy Bennell via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote > > Because, they are unable or unwilling to do any work on vehicles themselves, > and they fear the cost of having anything repaired in a shop. The feel, and > maybe rightly so, that they are better off with a new reliable car and > payments than they will be with an older car that needs upkeep on a regular > basis. If one cannot do the work and does not know enough to avoid being > robbed by repair shops, then one is truly at their mercy. A bad place to be. > > Randy _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
