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Old 03-29-2014, 04:02 PM   #17 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Old Mechanic View Post
I had an Insight. From 35k to 62 k miles it had $7000 in warrranty work done by the dealership. Battery, ECM, catalyst, it adds up quickly. The 10 year battery warranty start date is the in service date of the car, when it was first sold to a retail customer. Considering the thread about your overheating problem which intitated with a post about a different oil viscosity being the cause of a significant rise in cooling temperatures,

My advice is get a car that has the lowerst required maintenance over it's lifetime.

In my experience that is an Echo.

I know many here love the 1st gen Insights, the VX, 3 cylinder Metros. Look through the gaslogs lists of all the cars on this site with fuellogs. While mileage may be your primary goal and the purpose of this thread, right up there with mileage should be reliability, as well as the sum total of maitenance requirements over the period of ownership.

That was the basis of my recommendation to get an Echo. I has even lower maintenance requirements that your Camry, which had a timing belt. In todays market a timing belt job would buy you a couple hundred gallons of gas. At 45 MPG that's a 9000 mile free gas card since the Echo has a chain that lasts the life of the engine with decent oil change intervals.

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Mech
I didn't really put a thought into the maintenance factor, with my working 2 jobs, I don't really have time to do anything to the car other then the oil change/washing. With that being said, I can't seem to find any Echos out there. They all have 200k+ Miles on them and they are very, very expensive...

Also, I don't really want a Manual. I know they get way better FE but honestly, I just want something simple, my commute is 80 miles each day to and from work, and I just want something I can get up to 70, click the cruise control and let it go. I don't want to worry about shifting or anything else like that. On top of that... I don't have any experience whatsoever with a stick...
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