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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would not be taking a 15 year old car on long trips with little kids. I think that you have already driven it into the ground. [/quote]

I learned this one the hard way. I drove my '99 Subaru down to North Carolina and had some rear bearing issues. Had my car in a shop in rural NC for two weeks while they tried to source and ship the parts.

We go on a long road trip only twice a year. I rent a car for $100 out of DCA and run up those hard miles on the rental car. Totally worth it. And I don't have a car payment.[/quote]

This is what we’ve decided to do. I posted here last year about my 2006 Hyundai w/82k miles on it because we were encountering some repairs and the car is worth squat. On our last road trip I took Metro to DCA, picked up a car, and we drove that. It made me a little wistful for a new car because features! Comfort! Shiny! So that cost us $200 for the ten days, we haven’t had any further repairs on the Hyundai this year, and we have no car payment. And we just hit 85K last week, which is pretty consistent with our sub 3k mileage per year since we moved into DC. Now hoping we can get several more years out of it.[/quote]

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