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[quote=Anonymous]I buy cheap new cars and drive them until they are very old. The last car I sold was 15 years old. It lived about a year after I sold it, then needed an engine overhaul. It was an amateur's project car at that point. A Subaru with about 120K miles. I would say each car gets one $2-3K major component replacement (catalytic converter, timing belt) and after that, I'm done because I must have a reliable car for safety reasons (mom of two kids). We have 2x sunk too much money into cars right before they died. In one case, a radiator replacement was poorly done, and ruined the transmission while we were on a road trip and didn't know there was a fluid leak until too late. So lost the car bc it wasn't worth putting a new transmission in. Another time we did expensive brake work and 2 months later the engine had problems.[/quote]
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