Reply to At what age do cars start being a PITA?

Forum Index » Cars and Transportation

Reply to "At what age do cars start being a PITA?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My parents have a 10-year-old Hyundai with 160,000 miles on it that keeps needing more and more repairs (and they are the type to do everything through the dealer). I think they’ve put in *at least* $3,000/year for the last several years. I keep telling them to just buy a new car (they won’t buy a slightly used car). At what age/mileage do you just throw in the towel on an old car?[/quote]

Who cares if your parents want to pay $3,000 per year to own a car. How much will they spend on a new car? It isn't cheaper to buy a new car.[/quote]

I’m the OP. Of course they are free to do whatever they want – I just don’t think it makes sense to keep putting so much money in to a car that is constantly giving problems. Plus, they can afford a new car.  And to answer other posters, it’s not just routine maintenance. Right now, the car is not starting reliably and they told them there is some fix they need to do.

The other thing that irritates me is I think these dealers are shady. As mentioned, every 6 to 12 months something needs to be done and my parents always just do it. But this time, they told the dealer they don’t want to move forward with the repairs due to the price. And then magically the dealer calls them up two days later saying that they made a mistake and the price is actually going to be $1,500, not $3,500 as originally quoted.[/quote]

Change the dealer, seriously, it shouldn’t be that hard. If you are in DC area use checkbook to find a good one. Otherwise, yelp, Google reviews, etc[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics