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Year, make, model, and MILES on your car?

#62
2006 Mazda3 Sport: 18000km (11000Mi). This car is fun fun fun to drive and has loads of interior space with the rear seats down.

I sold my 1994 Civic hatchback when I bought the Mazda. It had 320000km (200000Mi) on it, didn't burn oil, original clutch, no major repairs. In retrospect, I should have hung on to it for another year, though when I drive the new car, I seem to forget all about it.. :D
 
#66
1994 Toyota Camry LE, 136k
1994 Jeep Grand Cherokee, 141k
1999 Chevy Metro LSi, 140k

The Camry is what my GF drives, the Jeep is the gigmobile, and my daily driver is the Metro, which I bought in response to gas hitting $2.00 a couple years ago. Smart move, it's more than paid for itself...I paid $3500 for it, paid it off in 2 months, and it gets close to 40 mpg! :hyper: With gas having been $3.3x in the recent past, and having a 65 mile a day commute, it made sense. If gas were to get to $5.00/gal, it would still cost me only $50 to fill it from dead empty! I'm keeping this one, and looking for another- preferably a 94 XFi hatchback with low miles...those get 54 mpg, more if you tune them! :D
 
#67
Fire-Starter said:
So do people go buy a brand new car when the engine/trans gets old, vs just getting a rebuilt or even a new engin,(if the body is in good shape, seems like 4/5/6 grand for a engine and another 200,000+ miles would be better than 20,30,40 grand for a new car. But I know nothing about cars, so maybe I am just out in leftfield someplace.:hmm:
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Around here usually not. The body tends to go before the engine/transmission. The salt on the roads in the winter really does a job on the bodies over time. And with unibody cars, there is not much you can do (for a reasonable price).

But I cracked the block on one car and put a used engine in it for $800 installed. That's used, not rebuilt. The car lasted two more years of daily commuting with nothing more than a couple of oil changes. In the end we had to get rid of it because the body was no longer sound.
 
#68
seanm said:
Around here usually not. The body tends to go before the engine/transmission. The salt on the roads in the winter really does a job on the bodies over time. And with unibody cars, there is not much you can do (for a reasonable price).

But I cracked the block on one car and put a used engine in it for $800 installed. That's used, not rebuilt. The car lasted two more years of daily commuting with nothing more than a couple of oil changes. In the end we had to get rid of it because the body was no longer sound.
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Now that you mention it, I was in Connecticut from Calif. I was wondering why everyone seemed to be driving newer cars than in Calif. That was why. They called it "Car Cancer" the salt ate them up. Some people had one car they put on blocks for the winter and one they drove, breaking out their baby is springtime.
 
#69
seanm said:
Around here usually not. The body tends to go before the engine/transmission. The salt on the roads in the winter really does a job on the bodies over time. And with unibody cars, there is not much you can do (for a reasonable price).
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Corrosion is a big factor in the salt belt. Case in point- the other day I had a lady give me a car. She came in with a 94 Lumina that had no brake pedal. The brake lines were rotten out and leaking brake fluid. While we were underneath we noticed the gas tank was rotten and seeping (and she complained of a gas smell), and the gas lines weren't far behind in terms of rot.

When we told her it would cost somewhere between $600-$800 to replace the tank, fuel and brake lines (and pray the bleeder screws come out of the calipers) she decided to get a new car. Knowing full well the dealers wont give her squat for trade in value the way the car is, she offered it to me for free.

The sad part is the car has only 43,000 miles on it, and she's the original owner.

Fwiw this is the fifth freebie I've gotten from a customer.
 
#80
a.green.martian said:
2003 Saturn VUE: 40,500 miles

My old car was a '95 Saturn SL1 with 188,000 miles when I traded it for $100 off of the vue.
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Cool! That's what my wife's last car was. We drove it to about the same number of miles, with no problems until about the end, when it needed an alternator and then a head gasket went bad. We liked it so much, though, that we found a '99 Saturn with 27,xxx miles. Now it has just passed 100,000 and haven't had a single repair yet. Heck of a good car!
 

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