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Originally Posted by joesgot4
you make a very compelling point about keeping my car! thanks for all the maintenance advice!
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You're welcome.
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Originally Posted by joesgot4
will keep my car before i buy a used car cause i dont know what was done to it when someone else owned it! my car is driven very very easy! you dont get 40mpgs out of a malibu automatic and not drive it easy! thanks again!
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So true.
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Originally Posted by joesgot4
only thing i need to do right now is tranmission fluid and filter! my mechanic told me to wait another oil chage before he changed the fluid and filter!
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Even if you don't pay him to inspect it, be sure you bring it to his attention that there will be lots of longish trips and you don't want trouble on the road. He'll look at the car differently
if he's not assuming that you'll be close by when xyz finally gets bad enough to have a symptom (noise, vibration, ...).
"It could last another 20,000 miles. And even if it does go bad, he'll still be able limp it along for another 300-500 miles until I've got open shop time and the parts show up" turns into "It could go bad as soon as the next 1,000 miles and he might not make it back home if he's 500 miles away."
Getting an extra measure of reliability costs, but not nearly as much as a new car.
Hopefully, I haven't belabored this point too much.
Anyway, I'll shut up now.
