Quote Originally Posted by nynco View Post
Do you do your own work for most of it? If you can not work on cars, I would never own an older car. It ends up costing more for labor than it does for a car payment. I am dumping over 9K in parts into my car right now. But that is to rebuild it all so I can run another 160K on it. Its paid off, I know it well. I can do nearly all the work on it. I am also doing preventive maint on things I knew will break soon. Sort of the, while I am in there thing.
9k in parts? WTF? Take your own advice and buy a new car.