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Spent the weekend at a buddies, and I wound up driving his car a few miles.
It's an '05 Corolla. Driving along at a pretty good clip on a crappy road I sorta got to noticing the thing drove kinda decent. Looked down at the odometer and see 171,xxx.
He treats it better than he'll admit to, but the only real repair he's done since he bought it with 100k is a wheel bearing. Who knows what was done before that, but everything about the vehicle makes me think "not much." At a minimum, all the suspension stuff has 70k on it- mostly commuting on pavement, but rural Maine pavement. Not the smoothest roads in the country.
So where does the crisis come in? Dad's got an '07 Focus- some of you have seen it. Nice car- I always liked little cars, for what they are. Last time I drove it I think it had around 50k- and it wasn't near as tight as this stupid little Toyota. Hell- I'm not sure it was any tighter than the Toyota when I drove it cross-country a few years back, and it only had 12k when I started that trip.
It's an '05 Corolla. Driving along at a pretty good clip on a crappy road I sorta got to noticing the thing drove kinda decent. Looked down at the odometer and see 171,xxx.
He treats it better than he'll admit to, but the only real repair he's done since he bought it with 100k is a wheel bearing. Who knows what was done before that, but everything about the vehicle makes me think "not much." At a minimum, all the suspension stuff has 70k on it- mostly commuting on pavement, but rural Maine pavement. Not the smoothest roads in the country.
So where does the crisis come in? Dad's got an '07 Focus- some of you have seen it. Nice car- I always liked little cars, for what they are. Last time I drove it I think it had around 50k- and it wasn't near as tight as this stupid little Toyota. Hell- I'm not sure it was any tighter than the Toyota when I drove it cross-country a few years back, and it only had 12k when I started that trip.
