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A car needing $7k in warranty work from 35 to 62k miles is "just me".  |
OK, it's
your car, because few if any Insight owners have reported such problems.
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Maybe your $150 estimate was somewhat flawed.
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Maybe, but not by all that much. I did say that it was an
estimate, you know, not an accurate-to-the-penny cost analysis. Regardless of whether it's $150 or twice that, it's still much less than occasional rentals would cost - and that's not even including the value of my time & aggravation.
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The Sentra is $260 a year insurance, trailer is 0, trailer tags are permanent.
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Different states, different insurance rates, different trailer registration requirements, etc. As discussed above, those are all things that factor into the calculation of which option is best for any individual.
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I drove my 84 CRX (bought new, 44 mpg average for 50k miles) 180 miles in a snow storm bad enough to slow a Va state trooper down to 35 on the Interstate when I passed him.
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But how deep was the snow in the travel lanes? Deeper than the floor pan? That's when whatever you're driving starts to turn into a snowplow.
Just as a practical matter, I doubt you see that much snow in the low-lying southern state of Virginia (as compared to the Sierra Nevada), and on the Interstates what you do get is likely to be smushed down into a couple of inches.