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Originally Posted by sugarwood
I wonder if your 150k car will require less or more maintenance than your sorted 300k car.
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At 300,000 miles it was constant work, the car wore me down. I also changed jobs and move, so access to my workshop was a problem. You can't drive a car this old a rely on a shop to the work.
In my mind I had done 'everything' the car could need, but in reality there are always more things to break. Window mechanisms failed, the AC finally quit, another rear wheel bearing went, the parking brake failed, and the engine lost boost once a day. Still very driveable, just not what I want from a daily driver. It also started to smoke on start up whenever it sat more than 8 hours. It was only about 10 seconds of smoke, but it was only going to get worse.
So far my new car has a lot of minor little annoying issues. The power steering pump might be failing, I can't program a new key because the door lock switches have failed (they lock, but they don't tell the ECU they are locked), ditto for the trunk lid. I swapped an ABS sensor and the N75 valve Saturday, that solved two minor issues.
But as a daily driver, this car is light years ahead. It starts really easily and has zero (so far)'check engine' issues. I would say this is a car I can improve if I want to, the old car I had to work on.