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Originally Posted by jwhcars
I am amazed at how proud you are of your neglect. Do you you treat your aircraft the same way? I have read many a thread on the various projects you have done and have been impressed with the apparent attention to detail and quality .... this is not one of them.
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My aircraft plugs get blasted and re-gapped at every annual inspection whether they have 20 hrs on them or 100.
Yes I am very proud of my "neglect" involving this particular car which became my daily beater driver at about 225k mileage when my wife decided she should have a car with less mileage on it to daily drive. I have repaired many small things on this car over the years that are common wear items (struts, ball joints, tie rods, brakes, belts etc). This car still has it's original tranny and rear end oil in it (just thought you should know... hope it fails to impress you even more
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I drive 80 miles round trip daily to work and while I do drive my 18 mpg SC and my even worse gas mileage Tundra some days, I kind of enjoy driving my old BMW which gets high 20's..... If it dies tomorrow, I would not shed a tear as it has delivered great value over it's 12 yrs of service to our family. When it dies, I have both of my daughter's 924s waiting in the wings to serve as my next daily drivers. Both of them have tons of miles on them and both run and drive perfect (guess who has maintained them for years?). I have never had a car payment in my life... I have owned and maintained german cars almost exclusively for 27 years and other than tires and AC recharging once (I now do my own AC work), I have never paid a mechanic or body shop to do any work on them (I have diagnostic software for BMW's and VW/Audi). Other than my wife's POS Audi and one dead battery in my BMW, none of my old German cars have left me or my family stranded yet all o them were bought cheap initially with issues.
I would put my mechanical aptitude up against ANYONE including professional mechanics.
