My current car is 14 now. I got it when it was 4 years old. I've gotten some good use and put a lot of miles on it (no idea how many b/c I haven't seen the odometer in years), but def over 200k. Thanks to the salty winters the bottoms all rotted out. I was planning on replacing it this year, but things came up and it seemed to be doing well enough that I was hoping it'd make it to spring.
Well people w/ $$ need to stop paying so much for cars so poor people can afford to buy their used ones. Unfortunately I'll need to get a loan for it and I'll be lucky if I can get one for a car that's 6 years old.
My car before this one was a fleet car and worked really well while I had it. The transmission was going though & it didn't help that my ex blew up the engine (did you know they need oil?).. I gave it to my brother who loaned it to a "friend" who got it impounded. I really liked that car, it would have lasted a lot longer if I hadn't married an idiot.
That's horrible. My cousin had a car like that, except she was the one who was in an accident (the other guys fault) their ins came and looked at it and gave her a check for the damage, which she accepted. Then about a month later I was driving behind her and I could see the back of her driver's side tire. The entire frame was shifted and no one noticed.
I had a friend who just traded in her car b/c she was having suspected transmission issues. It wasn't very old, but she didn't tell them and the mechanic looked at it, didn't drive it.. I always wonder if they realized the problem or if it just got passed onto the next unsuspecting owner. I hate buying cars b/c you never know what their history is b/c people are horribly dishonest.