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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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We had a 2005 Ford F-150 for a few months, it had been driven up North and in Alberta and the frame and everything in the engine was complete rust. The battery box was rusted out and someone replaced it with a plastic box. It still ran though and looked good on the outside. Was slow to start, door locks barely worked, windows screamed when you raised or lowered them and the alternator died and it went into park driving down the highway which blew out the front end. Cost $200 in gas to fill it. Cripes.. sold that POJ. You can put lipstick on a pig, but it will still be a pig.
I agree though, the cost of cars is so far out of reach. People lease them which is the dumbest thing you can ever do, and then struggle with the payments.
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