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Originally Posted by gravitylover
Sounds like you could have had another 2 years of low cost fun with it. One thing I pretty much know for sure when I get rid of a car is that it's done for with very little life left in it. The only car I've gotten rid of that still had potential was my '12 Crosstrek that only had 63k but it had a funny sound in the rear diff going on. Because it was 3k over warranty Subaru wouldn't cover it so I traded it off on the BRZ. Two weeks later it blew up on the interstate and caused all sorts of mayhem for the new owner but he had a CPO warranty and they covered most of the damage and the tow.
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I could have got about 6 years more out of it but didn't know. I would keep cars until they had very little life in them prior to that one. My poor old 91 Talon was only good for turning into a dedicated race car by the time I was done with it and had to very reluctantly sell it's mortal remains.
At that point in time I had to have a totally reliable vehicle (well as reliable as you can get) since I drove almost 50K a year and could not have the car down for even a short time. That meant no taking chances to try to drag it out a bit longer. It was also the time period where I lost the shop space I had and all my tools and equipment got "stolen" (my father swore he had nothing to do with their disappearance) so I said screw it and stopped doing my own major work.