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[flyer86d]

When my wife stopped driving her 911 as a daily driver she went
through a couple of money pit Audi A4’s that were a financial disaster.
In late 2015 she bought a new Honda Fit automatic for 15,800.00
At this point it is nearing 80,000 miles and not a single issue.
It asks for an oil change around every 10,000 miles and gets
Mid 40 mpg. Can’t beat a Honda....
CVT is transparent when you drive the car and there is a
ton of room inside depending on how you configure the seats.
She wants to buy another one and not drive it much and pay it off
before she retires so she use it daily as a retirement car. Without her 100
Mile a day commute that one should last pretty Much forever.
I’ll get this one as a daily and buy a pos Tacoma for when a Truck is needed.

We drove older Mercedes for a bunch of years with generally great luck. We still have one but it does not get a lot of use anymore, it is just not worth selling. We also kept my brides 04 Volvo S60 when we replaced it with a new daily driver. Why? It has a stick shift. I bought my daughter a 1990 300SL when she was a senior in high school. She would leave the house at 4:30 am for morning swim practice, then to school, then back to evening swim practice and home at 10 pm every day. It was a 125 mile round trip and I wanted her in a safe car. It did not go with her to college. I didn’t want to see it parked in a college parking lot in Minnesota. In five years of ownership and 60,000 miles, I replaced the brake pads.

I drove a 1990 300 D 2.5 turbo at the time. When I sold it at 260,000 miles 5 years ago, I replace the brake pads and tires once in the 100,000 I owned it. That’s it.

The reason that we drove old used cars is that there is little depreciation. That is the largest cost in car ownership. I was commuting 80 miles/day, my wife 100, my daughter 125. If we drove new cars, they would all be worthless by the time we paid them off!

I owned a garage so labor (mine) was free and parts were at cost but I had little to replace. The problem with Asian cars is the cost of parts. They can be more expensive than Benz parts and the dealers lock out the aftermarket until the car is 5 years old. Oh, the Asian dealer would cut me a generous 10% discount on retail on parts if I was forced to buy from them. I was never thrilled to work on them.

Charlie

[VaccaRabite]

Honda Fit.
Honda Civic.
Toyota Camery.

Boring cars that will more or less run forever. Cheap, but hold value.

Zach

[Series9]

I will never own a MK4 VW. They are absolutely terrible.

[thelogo]

2002-2004 Acura RL.

Heck, 2002-2004 Acura anything.

Is that a 6 cyclinder because
Im trying to stay with 4 bangers

/6

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[Chris914n6]

Current family car, 07 Sienna with 195k mi, still on the original spark plugs.

Even the high end Iridium plugs wear past spec around 100k. I know the back 3 are a bitch but it would be worth it. Flex joints required.

[Unobtanium-inc]

When my wife stopped driving her 911 as a daily driver she went
through a couple of money pit Audi A4’s that were a financial disaster.
In late 2015 she bought a new Honda Fit automatic for 15,800.00
At this point it is nearing 80,000 miles and not a single issue.
It asks for an oil change around every 10,000 miles and gets
Mid 40 mpg. Can’t beat a Honda....
CVT is transparent when you drive the car and there is a
ton of room inside depending on how you configure the seats.
She wants to buy another one and not drive it much and pay it off
before she retires so she use it daily as a retirement car. Without her 100
Mile a day commute that one should last pretty Much forever.
I’ll get this one as a daily and buy a pos Tacoma for when a Truck is needed.

We drove older Mercedes for a bunch of years with generally great luck. We still have one but it does not get a lot of use anymore, it is just not worth selling. We also kept my brides 04 Volvo S60 when we replaced it with a new daily driver. Why? It has a stick shift. I bought my daughter a 1990 300SL when she was a senior in high school. She would leave the house at 4:30 am for morning swim practice, then to school, then back to evening swim practice and home at 10 pm every day. It was a 125 mile round trip and I wanted her in a safe car. It did not go with her to college. I didn’t want to see it parked in a college parking lot in Minnesota. In five years of ownership and 60,000 miles, I replaced the brake pads.

I drove a 1990 300 D 2.5 turbo at the time. When I sold it at 260,000 miles 5 years ago, I replace the brake pads and tires once in the 100,000 I owned it. That’s it.

The reason that we drove old used cars is that there is little depreciation. That is the largest cost in car ownership. I was commuting 80 miles/day, my wife 100, my daughter 125. If we drove new cars, they would all be worthless by the time we paid them off!

I owned a garage so labor (mine) was free and parts were at cost but I had little to replace. The problem with Asian cars is the cost of parts. They can be more expensive than Benz parts and the dealers lock out the aftermarket until the car is 5 years old. Oh, the Asian dealer would cut me a generous 10% discount on retail on parts if I was forced to buy from them. I was never thrilled to work on them.

Charlie

I'm a true lover of Mercedes, I currently own two a 99 C43 and a 14 E350, great cars, but avoid anything made during the Chrysler years, they are junk. I bought an 07 CLK, looked great, smelled like a Benz. It was the biggest POS! In the year I had it is was in the shop 4 times, and I luckily dodged the bullet on having one of the motors that chewed itself up. I think the CLK was basiclaly a LeBaron with a Benz grill. I had 60,000 miles on mine and it drove like it had 300,000. This was a dark period for Mercedes.

[Andyrew]

Current family car, 07 Sienna with 195k mi, still on the original spark plugs.

Even the high end Iridium plugs wear past spec around 100k. I know the back 3 are a bitch but it would be worth it. Flex joints required.

I've got a mitsubishi owned by my MIL and previously my mom from new. Changed out the front plugs a few times but on the original rears. Seems to be running OK after 130k miles

Im waiting for the car to die before shoving a buick Lesabre in her hands.

[Justinp71]

When my wife stopped driving her 911 as a daily driver she went
through a couple of money pit Audi A4’s that were a financial disaster.
In late 2015 she bought a new Honda Fit automatic for 15,800.00
At this point it is nearing 80,000 miles and not a single issue.
It asks for an oil change around every 10,000 miles and gets
Mid 40 mpg. Can’t beat a Honda....
CVT is transparent when you drive the car and there is a
ton of room inside depending on how you configure the seats.
She wants to buy another one and not drive it much and pay it off
before she retires so she use it daily as a retirement car. Without her 100
Mile a day commute that one should last pretty Much forever.
I’ll get this one as a daily and buy a pos Tacoma for when a Truck is needed.

What year a4? Since 2009 Audi has been on a huge upswing in reliability and is now more reliable than Honda.

[thelogo]

When my wife stopped driving her 911 as a daily driver she went
through a couple of money pit Audi A4’s that were a financial disaster.
In late 2015 she bought a new Honda Fit automatic for 15,800.00
At this point it is nearing 80,000 miles and not a single issue.
It asks for an oil change around every 10,000 miles and gets
Mid 40 mpg. Can’t beat a Honda....
CVT is transparent when you drive the car and there is a
ton of room inside depending on how you configure the seats.
She wants to buy another one and not drive it much and pay it off
before she retires so she use it daily as a retirement car. Without her 100
Mile a day commute that one should last pretty Much forever.
I’ll get this one as a daily and buy a pos Tacoma for when a Truck is needed.

What year a4? Since 2009 Audi has been on a huge upswing in reliability and is now more reliable than Honda.

Reliability may be on a upswing but once you get burned with
A unrealiable car i would assume all brand loyalty to the audi
Is no longer

[thelogo]

is now more reliable than Honda.
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Thats a bold statement "

Vincent vega

[Justinp71]

[quote name='thelogo' date='Mar 29 2018, 06:43 PM' post='2594054']
is now more reliable than Honda.
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Thats a bold statement "

Vincent vega
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It's a fact according to consumer reports. Although I never understand how they rank reliability on new cars-

https://www.consumerreports.org/car-reliabi...-they-stack-up/

[thelogo]

New cars old cars man

Funny story

The landlord of the mini mall i work at
Had a avalon for 15 years , loved the thing but it had 200k onbthe clock an it failed smog

So he traded it in on a new avalaon 2016 i think
He drove it about two weeks and the roof was constantly leaking
Windows didnt seal etc and he said the crome on the dash if it hit the sun could blind you .
After 3 attempts by dealer to resloved those issues with no success

He actually returned the car to bob smith toyota
And got his money back .

[thelogo]

Anyone s thoughts on this car

Best condition ive seen yet as far as used cars


150k miles is alot but when you take care of your toyota like this guy
Im not to hung up on that mileage




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