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Have you seen the prices of new cars lately?

It's like getting a second mortgage.

Even used cars are selling for more than they cost new a few years ago.


That's why I'm obsessed with making my current vehicle last as long as humanly possible.


Most people think "maintenance" just means changing the oil every 5,000 miles. Haha That's a joke. I am talking like rebuilding the engine, transmissions, and drive train. Replacing rusted body panels, and welding up and reinforcing rotted out frames.

At the farm we have made vehicles last past 50 years and over a million miles

Why make payments on new, buy junk and rebuild it at a 3rd of the cost of new. You got a bent frame! Fixable! You have a Rotten rusted out frame! Fixable! Blown engine or transmissions! Same Fixable!

Nothing is it fixable unless it looks like this


When it looks like this. Then it's too far gone to save
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RodneyTrotter1 · 100+, M
All the more reason to use a bike or e bike and use public transport, unless circumstances prevent that.
HumanEarth · F
For us we live in the middle of nowhere on a farm. It takes us almost an hour to drive to the city with a grocery store and gas station
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HumanEarth · F
It's my choice to live here. The government didn't say you are going to live here against your will. So no subsidy is needed. We farm and work off the farm
RodneyTrotter1 · 100+, M
@HumanEarth Okay. Some people here live on farms but work or study in cities or towns so I thought that might apply to you.