9 yo, ‘14 Jeep GC. 84,000 miles. Most trouble free vehicle I’ve owned in all my 70 years. Despite living in Michigan, there’s no body rust and it looks great underneath. Looks and drives like new. I bought a Mopar MaxCare lifetime extended warranty when it was new, but have used it only once for an oil pressure sensor. I don’t see why I I can’t get another 9 years and use some more of the extended warranty. I’m hoping I have as good a luck with with the ‘22 GC I bought in July.
How many miles do you want to keep your vehicles, expect your vehicles to last. (if currently under 100K)
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I just bought a 2007 Corolla so I expect it to outlast me (I’m 22)
Or you really like the car. I really liked my 2000 BMW 528i 5MT M-sport but after 21 years you're on borrowed time.
We had plans to take my work 2016 F150 to 200,000 and assess, but at 172,000 miles it needed $6000 in repairs (exhaust manifold s etc. common to the 3.5 ecoboost)
My 14 Chrysler T&C has 104k miles and I plan to take it to 200k if possible, or when the kids stop being so messy. I’ll never put those tornadoes in a newer vehicle. I regularly clean it up to a very clean status.
I bought my Rogue and plan on taking it to 150/160k, as our old one is at that now and still going strong. I may keep it longer. I’ve toyed with selling it and getting an older car to get rid of the payment, but I bought it to put a low mile car in our fleet to hedge against problems and give me a good car to commute in.
My daughters 09 Camry with 235k miles will be annually assessed and maintained for 300k miles.
The Wrangler is a toy and can be sold at any moment, though it probably won’t be. I like it too much!
My 14 Chrysler T&C has 104k miles and I plan to take it to 200k if possible, or when the kids stop being so messy. I’ll never put those tornadoes in a newer vehicle. I regularly clean it up to a very clean status.
I bought my Rogue and plan on taking it to 150/160k, as our old one is at that now and still going strong. I may keep it longer. I’ve toyed with selling it and getting an older car to get rid of the payment, but I bought it to put a low mile car in our fleet to hedge against problems and give me a good car to commute in.
My daughters 09 Camry with 235k miles will be annually assessed and maintained for 300k miles.
The Wrangler is a toy and can be sold at any moment, though it probably won’t be. I like it too much!
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Scrap yards are offering $450-$550 for cars right now, running or not. I was glad to take that for my kid’s 2001 Jeep Liberty, with rotted doors and fenders, no AC, bald tires, bad brakes, leaking roof, water damage (and much more). For a lot of folks, if they own a clunker right now, they’re going to get themselves $500 bucks for it, and a free tow out of your yard.
Beats the hustle of listing a scraper on Marketplace and dealing with people low balling you (because they will, even if the price is firm). Or having people not show up, or not bring money, or ask you to become their personal psychiatrist in your driveway (as you wanted the conversation to end an hour ago, and get back into your house). I’m not saying I don’t sell vehicles on Craigslist or Marketplace, but it has to be worth more than a couple hundred bucks for me. Just my opinion.
I do have some interesting car selling stories...
One was be virtue of “Vlad” the Russian diplomat from NY. Called on a Friday night, wanted to come by and pay cash for my corvette. I’m not doing that, Vlad. So, he comes on a Sunday afternoon, drives five hours to my town and we meet at the police station (Because Vlad sounds questionable to me). We negotiated the price BEFORE Vlad made the trip - as it was the absolute lowest I was willing to go, no matter what - Vlad took my corvette for a test drive, with me in the passenger seat, telling me how he buys vettes, turbo charges them, fixes them up and flips them. Can make a nice 2-3 thousand profit. That’s nice, I’m happy for Vlad.
Vlad also started beating on my car, doing 90 in a 40 mph zone. And then he tells me my clutch pedal is a little low and he’d need a clutch put into it. I tell him, pull over, I’m driving back...that I’ve never beat the tar out of my car like he is doing right now. I drive back. He looks the car over again. Immediately opens the hood and points at my harmonic balancer. It wobbles. He says. It’s common, it’s a $500 dollar repair if he does it himself. He low balls me. I ask him if he’s hungry, and he says yes. I suggest to him to get a bite to eat, because it’s going to be a long five hour drive back to NY for him on an empty stomach with no corvette. And he left. I was hungry too. I sold that corvette one week later for $2,000 more than I was going to sell it to Vlad. I don’t hate selling cars, but I don’t love it either.
Not sure where you're at but around here it's 7-8 cents a pound. https://www.reliablerecyclingcenter.com/pricing/ That's about $300 for an Explorer. I'm assuming if you drive an 02 Explorer, a couple extra hundred bucks is significant money to you.
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New England area. New Hampshire and Mass are fetching $450-$700 a vehicle right now.
Include the OE cat for the $450 price.
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I appreciate your post. I have done all this, and I will add I listed EVERYTHING that was wrong, including many things that most people would never find or notice,
Still everyone seems to want to be Rick from Pawn stars. Maybe its a Southern thing.
"this is broken",
me- "yep, did you read the add, that's listed"
"will you take 20% less, its not worth what your asking"
me - "price if firm, did you read the add"
"Not worth it"
me " if its not worth it why did you come?"
If it was easy to sell cars, most everybody would be doing it. Dealing with idiots and jerks just goes with the territory.
I in late 2020 I scrapped a 1995 Ford Escort that had 265K miles on it that had a bad transmission. It had a lot else wrong with it, and rust holes, water intrusion issues, body damage, bald tires, clicking axles, etc. I also had issues with the HVAC blower box that would have required pulling the dash to repair. Would you have paid me more than the $290 I got from Crazy Rays / LKQ ???
If I could have gotten $682 for the cat like I did for my 2000, I would.
Thank you!
So you are saying that I should have scrapped the cat, then junked the car, right?
That's a special case, most cheap cars don't have valuable cats.
That is what I was thinking.
An old Farmer told me long ago," Repairs are cheaper than payments." (Remember this is a Generalization...)
I live by," The second 100,000 miles are cheaper than the first." Although 3 years ago I bought a 2 y/o Cruze with 2500 miles on it and have enjoyed NOT fixing anything for the last 77,500 miles/ 3 &1/2 years. The monthly payment is still there, even though the repair bill is not.
I live by," The second 100,000 miles are cheaper than the first." Although 3 years ago I bought a 2 y/o Cruze with 2500 miles on it and have enjoyed NOT fixing anything for the last 77,500 miles/ 3 &1/2 years. The monthly payment is still there, even though the repair bill is not.
I`m gonna keep my car until is too costly to repair it, its at 109k miles. Had the same car since 2009.
You can have a car payment and reliability. OR-no payment and in the case of ultra high mile vehicles many buy (cheap)on here-questionable reliability and repairs.
You pick! I'm not going to the middle of no where Wyoming, Montana, etc. in a 200,000 mile vehicle-it's not happening.
My current 1999 car has around 76K miles on it. If I retire in the next few years, it may outlive me.
