• SupraMario@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    Price of cars has increased massively. 2000 average price of new car was like 20k now it’s around 50k. Dunno about you but most people’s salaries have not increased 150%.

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      11 days ago

      I’m running my 2008 Toyota until the engine melts a hole in the floor and I have to push it like the Flintstones

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        10 days ago

        What Toyota? A lot of their engines will do 500k miles with normal maintenance easy. My LC had 300k miles right now.

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          10 days ago

          FJ cruiser nearing 150k miles.

          Just changed the radio for a 160$ android system and a huge screen, and rear view camera (another 60ish), gives me 90% of all the bells and whistles I want from modern cars.

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              10 days ago

              as long as you keep up with the bare minimum of oil changes.

              I know a family who doesn’t believe in oil changes, they go though a lot of cars

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                10 days ago

                Yea that’s like smoking a few packs a day, drinking like a fish, and eating baconators for every meal and then wondering why you’re dying at 30…gotta do the bare minimum at least lol

                Though I did know someone who would basically buy a car drive it until the tires were bald and trade it in for the next one… pretty sure they didn’t change the oil either.