by "Wobbles the Mind" (wobblesthemind)
Published 04/15/2017 at 22:30
by "Wobbles the Mind" (wobblesthemind)
Published 04/15/2017 at 22:30
Tags: Real Garage Update
STARS: 0
“The bad ass lion stepped on the signifyin’ monkey’s feet.” Anyways, crossed over the 100,000 mile mark early this past week. Ol’ Baloo here has done precisely 70,000 miles in 18.5 months (I got it at 31,619 miles at the end of August 2015). Zippo repairs or issues which means the warranty was a complete waste of money (which ended about 25,000 miles ago). Should have trusted my own judgement, I won’t make that mistake again.
Major maintenance coming up from 112,000 miles through 124,000 miles. I think I’m going to go ahead and put the money into refreshing the interior plus (*sigh*) repairing all the scars of highway driving up front. I talk the big game when it comes to dream garages but the longer I own cars the less I want to see money leave my hands for them. Once my mind and heart settle on what I’m going to do then I’ll let you all know what decisions I’ve made. I may actually buy only one other vehicle after these and just rent something nice and fancy when I have that new car urge. If you wouldn’t spend $600 to drive a car for 10 days then why spend $28,000 over 48 months to drive it only on the weekends, right? I’m seriously asking because I just had this thought today.
That’s the update on Baloo! The Amanti is doing extremely well but is also coming up on big maintenance (including timing belt). The XF fuel door should be unborked. Mom’s Camry is still down and has been since maybe January so she’s been using the XF as a daily... I get this nagging voice accompanied with the sound of cash registers opening towards the back of my head. But she loves the car and it’s definitely changed her as a driver. She tells me about people wanting to race her at stoplights, more specifically her wins. I feel as if we may have flipped ages at some point...
* That darn JEEP badge never bugs me until I see photos I swear! Very impressed with it though.
**Here’s the quote she was given for her Camry by the way:
"jvirgs drives a Subaru" (jvirgs)
04/15/2017 at 22:36, STARS: 4
BUT if you didn’t get the warranty, shit would have hit the fan and you would have been kicking yourself for not getting it. This is how life works.
"Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo" (thetomselleck)
04/15/2017 at 22:37, STARS: 0
Correct
"DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time" (dc3ls-)
04/15/2017 at 22:42, STARS: 0
$300 for spark plugs? Is it a V6?
"Wobbles the Mind" (wobblesthemind)
04/15/2017 at 22:44, STARS: 0
My future plan is to see how much the warranty costs on a vehicle then stash that amount away. I figure if the warranty is $3,000 for 60 months/75,000 odometer miles then that’s what I’ll stash it away.
If that’s what the repairs end up being then I broke even. If they cost more then I probably wouldn’t want to keep the car anyways. If I don’t spend it then I’ll put it all into whatever is left to pay on the car (or more likely pocket since it would be paid off during that time).
"Nick Has an Exocet" (nickallain)
04/15/2017 at 22:46, STARS: 0
I’ve thought about renting something nice. Problems: is that are you really going to drive somewhere to pick up a nice rental car? How many times is the rental counter experience going to be like going the DMV? Will they have the car you want? Will the car be covered in a fine layer of sticky?
"Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo" (thetomselleck)
04/15/2017 at 22:46, STARS: 0
I may actually buy only one other vehicle after these and just rent something nice and fancy when I have that new car urge. If you wouldn’t spend $600 to drive a car for 10 days then why spend $28,000 over 48 months to drive it only on the weekends, right? I’m seriously asking because I just had this thought today.
Unless my math is off, if you bought a car and spent $28,000 on a car and only drove it on the weekends for four years (let’s say ONLY every Saturday and Sunday), that comes out around $64 per day you actually drive it (again, Saturdays and Sundays over 4 years). So the cost per day (of use) is pretty much the same, except you own the car vs renting a series of them.
TLDR, I got bored and tried math things.
"Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo" (thetomselleck)
04/15/2017 at 22:47, STARS: 1
Quantity: 6 (I had the same question)
"Wobbles the Mind" (wobblesthemind)
04/15/2017 at 22:50, STARS: 1
Yes, she is strongly against 4-cyls. My assumption is that she must have owned something with an interference engine and didn’t know about timing belts. Happened to me on my Rio but I kept it, put another 200,000 miles on it, and was always timely with the belt.
"DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time" (dc3ls-)
04/15/2017 at 22:50, STARS: 0
Shut up with your reading comprehension!
"Wobbles the Mind" (wobblesthemind)
04/15/2017 at 22:56, STARS: 0
This is why I’m so interested in Cadillac Book taking off. Plug in, get a CTS-V, ATS-V, CT6, and an Escalade during that month, get out! I can put off the new car urge if I have one month a year with four different brand new $60,000 and up cars to fart in.
"Wobbles the Mind" (wobblesthemind)
04/15/2017 at 23:02, STARS: 0
Yep, that was my thought too. But I don’t want to own, rent, or especially “share” a car. I just want to drive whatever I feel like when I happen to feel like it and then say “thank you” and shuffle off.
"Nick Has an Exocet" (nickallain)
04/15/2017 at 23:41, STARS: 0
Hah. Yeah, that will be interesting. Services like that often start out awesome and degrade over time.
"LimitedTimeOnly @ opposite-lock.com" (limitedtimeonly)
04/16/2017 at 05:41, STARS: 0
Nice Cab Callaway reference. (Although in refreshing my memory, I learned that the signifying monkey has many references and is a more of a cultural symbol than I realized.)
"shop-teacher" (shop-teacher)
04/16/2017 at 09:55, STARS: 0
Except you still have to pay for insurance, maintenance, and repairs.
"shop-teacher" (shop-teacher)
04/16/2017 at 09:56, STARS: 0
Cadillac Book? Never heard of it, sounds intriguing...