Ridiculous car maintenance

[GasGuzzler]

break out your bicycles boys. china wants to swap ways of life. we had cars, they had bikes.
soon itll be turned around.

I still have at least one good one and a few "un-good" ones...

 

[Ride1949]

Low cost, low maintainance, good gas milage. A real chick magnate. No extended warrantee or service agreement needed.

 

[Mobuck]

If you think maintaining a luxury car is expensive, get yourself a 20 year old combine. :eek:

 

[Mobuck]

I/we don't currently own a 'car' but at the moment, have 4 pickups (two 1/2 ton, and 1 each 3/4 &1 ton). I've had the oldest one for a third of my life. It's got some quirks and is mostly relegated to farm/local use but still pays it's keep. The best part: many maintenance items are shared by at least 2 of these vehicles(the 1/2 tons are almost 100% shared parts from wheels to oil/air filters and all fluids). All of these are user serviceable generally w/o specialty tools or computer gizmos.
After my retirement(for the second time) next month, there may be some re-alignment of vehicle needs and/or reduction of need. The value of these older/simpler used vehicles has skyrocketed lately. Son just sold a pickup I'd used for my work vehicle and then shuffled it to him for a farm pickup. I bought it used for $6500, drove it 2 years, sold it to him for around $4K, he beat the snot out of it for another 5 years, and a guy drove 150 miles to buy it for $3750 with 250K miles.
Talk about retaining value. I wouldn't even consider buying a new pickup due to the gadgets and widgets that do absolutely NOTHING for me or my operation.

 

[GasGuzzler]

I bought my 2007 Sierra used from my dad with 77K miles on it in 2014 for just barely five digits. Nine years later and with 178K miles, it's worth almost the same.

Go find a 2004-2007 Duramax in good shape under 200K miles. They're worth silly money now. No emissions and easy to work on.

 

[Hvymax]

I'm kinda keeping my eyes open for a 60's-70's pickup. Carburetor, points etc. I might also start building a Wood Gasifier for when crap gets really real.

 

[weaselmeatgravy]

We live in a fairly rural area so there’s not much for “high end” car dealers. No BMW, Volvo, Subaru, Mercedes, etc.

:ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:

I'll have to start parking my 12 year old Impreza in the garage now that I know it is in the same class as BMW & Mercedes

 

[harley08]

I sold my 1991 BMW850I in November of last year. I ran it 224.000 miles and bought it used in 1995. I changed pads, rotors, oil and air filters, wiper blades, shocks and struts (1 time) and bought several sets of tires. I bought a $20.00 computer code reset tool when I got the car and did all the service work except changing and balancing tires and shocks and struts. Never had any problems with it at all. Before this car, I had a 1989 BMW 325i and drove it 189,000 miles in 5 years and again never had any problem besides normal wear items which I changed myself.
Either I got 2 'good ones' or they make good cars.

Or - you took good care of both of them!

 

[buckeyeshooter]

I miss the late 70’s. Sit on the fender,prop your feet in the engine compartment and work on em.

Ah not with my trans am. 74 SD-455, my first car purchased it new. To change the passenger side spark plugs, you had to jack it up, remove the tire, take the belt off the AC unit and make the bolts loose, then roll it in closer to the motor. You changed plugs sitting in the wheel well. I will not even tell you how many bad words were spoken when I installed headers after the warranty ran out.

 

[bobski]

chevy vans were like that.
vw bugs too. oh wait...vw bug owners manual basically said...to do anything on them you had to drop the motor.