....with your SVT?
It's not that it's terribly unreliable (not that it's a poster child for reliability), but as I sit here today stranded, waiting for a tow truck I can't help but ask myself, is having a paid for car worth even the possibility of this happening on a semi-regular basis?
It's hard to say which is better: budget for unexpected car repairs $100-200/mo (??) or budget for a car payment ~$300/mo (+/- of course)...?
The car isn't that bad... It's your typical SVT with 125k miles. I drive it a TON (I've averaged just over 20k miles a year since I've owned it). If I were to plunk down about a thousand bucks, most of the quirks and qualms would be solved (save for the wearing trans/clutch) and it wouldn't be too bad. But at the end of the day it would still be a 9 year old car (born in mid '97) with 125k miles that's not getting any newer.
I dunno, maybe I'm caught in the American trap of having to have something new and nice to go from A-B.
Given my needs, it gets the job done - though I would love a bit more interior and cargo space or better fuel economy given the size of the car... Am I allowed to use my two year old as an excuse to get a new, reliable car?
For those that have since moved on, what was the final straw for you?
