Its at 200k miles and has been ridiculously expensive to take care of.
I guess I’ll have to work to save up for a new one.
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What work have you done on it?
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Maybe you can buy a new one with a good payment plan .
Sometimes you pay $50 a week or $25 week til it’s paid off .
Not nice to be in debt but it is a option where one has time to pay it off at more comfortable pace.
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Tons. 4k worth and the car is only worth 5k
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Mine’s ready too. 214,000 miles. You wouldn’t believe how old some cars are on websites. Even though they have lower mileage. At least mine is a 2012.
Have you been doing the work yourself or taking it to a garage? I’ve greatly reduced vehicle costs by learning to do my own maintenance, mostly via YouTube. Is this an option for you?
Have to gamble buying secondhand cars
I was lucky with my current one
Sometimes better the devil you know
It’s worth about £1000 so anything major it won’t be worth it
But luckily I have a decent mechanic who’s reasonable prices
I’m a poor learner. That sounds like a. Nightmare
It’s not that bad! I had a huge phobia about doing this and I started with just oil changes. Now I can swap a head gasket. This is over about four years. Start with a YouTube channel called ChrisFix. The guy is annoyingly cheerful, but he demystifies a lot of repairs and you feel kind of silly after when you realize how easy it turned out to be. You just need to invest in some good wrenches and jacks and bobs yer uncle.
All the money I saved on vehicle expenses helped pay for the travel trailer.
I bet a lot of what is making you crazy about your vehicle can be fixed cheaper than replacing and you’ll wind up with loads of self-confidence when you come out the other end.
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BTW, I learned new things last night.
- Depressurize the water system before removing the anode/plug from the hot water tank in an RV or trailer.
- The anode degrades into black flakes and sludge in the bottom of the hot water tank requiring at least annual service (flushing).
- Failure to depressurize and ignorance of anode decay results in being covered head to toe with stanky black sludge and your spouse and kid laughing at you.
On the bright side, I’ll remember about depressurizing the next time I do this.
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Part of the reason I’m selling my car is because everything is breaking down in it. I would be spending all my time fixing it.
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Can you give me some examples?
I went through a stretch last year where I worked on my wife’s van every weekend, but once I got past it the beast is reliable again. I did the math and we’re about six grand ahead on replacing it.
The air filter gets stuffed every time. The oil bucket or whatever holds the oil breaks every month. Idk there’s tons of other stuff $4k worth in the last year but honestly I’ve forgotten the exact problems lol
I’ve discovered you can usually clean them instead of replacing.
Guessing you mean the oil pan? The usual culprit for this is often twofold. In some models you need to replace the plug screw and add a crush washer with each change. Some oil change places do work on the cheap and don’t swap them out. Look up your car online and see if the manual says you need a new plug screw and crush washer with each oil change. The local lube place wasn’t doing this with my daughter’s 2013 Hyundai Elantra, causing it to have a slow leak. New screw and crush washer cost $4. Hasn’t leaked since she learned about it and now she changes her own oil.
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My car is a 2004 toyota camry. Its got over 200,000 miles on it. Camrys last forever but if something goes wrong I dont really have any money to fix it. I dont want to use up what little savings I have. I probably need new tires but dont want to pay.
Odds are that someone with a car using the same tires as yours wrote it off and you can get almost new tires on the cheap from an auto wrecker.
It cost $1K to get new winter tires for my wife’s van. Got a set with 90% tread (I have a $2 measuring tool) for $250 from a wrecker and they work fine. They even came on steel rims. Just had to pay $40 to get them balanced.
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They have 60 dollar tires at local shop I was thinking of getting. Not planning on taking my car on the highway anymore too old and makes me nervous. I will try your suggestion too I will probably get better tires that way. Thanks!
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