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For better or worse, that’s where I’m at with it. Hate spending a fortune in gas but a gas sipper vehicle costs more than the gas unless I want some beater but that has the potential for needing lots of repair work which goes against what I’m trying to achieve. I don’t need another project, I need a gas sipper that I can drive halfway across the country without a worry and ideally if it breaks in the next 3-5 years, it’s someone else’s problem to fix. Trying to take the workload off my aging fleet so I can get caught up on repairsYou can buy a lot of gas for the cost of an upgraded replacement vehicle...
That's kind of where I was with my old Sport Trac. New truck payment is a little over $400 a month but I spend $100 less a month in gas and the old Trac cost me $5000 combined for the last two state inspections. Then this spring it lost a head gasket, I would have had to put repairs on plastic and to pay it off in a year would have been at least $300 a month. So I would have $8500 in a 13 year old vehicle with 212,000 miles, double what it's worth, and no doubt something else expensive would break sooner rather than later. Look at it that way and a new Ranger was less money out of pocket and it shouldn't give me any problems for the next 100,000 miles and if it does, well, it's on warranty.For better or worse, that’s where I’m at with it. Hate spending a fortune in gas but a gas sipper vehicle costs more than the gas unless I want some beater but that has the potential for needing lots of repair work which goes against what I’m trying to achieve. I don’t need another project, I need a gas sipper that I can drive halfway across the country without a worry and ideally if it breaks in the next 3-5 years, it’s someone else’s problem to fix. Trying to take the workload off my aging fleet so I can get caught up on repairs
My repair bills really haven’t been that high mostly because I do the work myself and have a pile of parts laying around, but it’s the constant repair work that has me on the ropes. Was trying to do bare minimum to the 92 while I fixed the green one, but that backfired on me when the #2 piston melted in the 92. All of my trucks need a good bit of attention at this point and with a girlfriend that lives in Ohio, I’m racking up miles. Cost wise, before COVID the numbers still didn’t work out, would cost me more for something new and fuel efficient than to keep driving what I have, buutt… it would take the workload off my fleet and put any repairs to the new vehicle on someone else while I deal with my fleet. Once the green Ranger is back on the road I should be good for awhile because at this point it’s getting pretty much everything imaginable done.That's kind of where I was with my old Sport Trac. New truck payment is a little over $400 a month but I spend $100 less a month in gas and the old Trac cost me $5000 combined for the last two state inspections. Then this spring it lost a head gasket, I would have had to put repairs on plastic and to pay it off in a year would have been at least $300 a month. So I would have $8500 in a 13 year old vehicle with 212,000 miles, double what it's worth, and no doubt something else expensive would break sooner rather than later. Look at it that way and a new Ranger was less money out of pocket and it shouldn't give me any problems for the next 100,000 miles and if it does, well, it's on warranty.
Shults Ford in Wexford has a decent selection of vehicles and occasionally I see new Broncos on their lot. That's where I got my Ranger since it's like a half-mile from my work.I see a lot of different vehicles at work and had pretty much settled on a Mazda 3 hatch for my new gas sipper until the new Bronco came in the other day. I might have to look into ordering one…
F##k Shultz Ford?Shults Ford in Wexford has a decent selection of vehicles and occasionally I see new Broncos on their lot. That's where I got my Ranger since it's like a half-mile from my work.
Sorry to hear that. I didn't have any issues buying it or with service at Shults so far. Everyone I knew at Ron Lewis Ford retired and with where I work now it's not convenient anyway. Shults at least has vehicles, I was past Ron Lewis yesterday and they're pretty empty and the Chevy dealer across the street is closed. I was going to do my best to come home with a new truck that day before the liquid head gasket sealer I'd dumped into the radiator wore off.F##k Shultz Ford?
Sorry, they left a really, really bad taste in my mouth years ago. They threw me off one of their lots years ago when I questioned why they were lying about the price of a vehicle (back in the day when you could find actual dealer invoice prices on KBB) they were claiming they were selling $99 over invoice but the invoice they showed had the number whited out and typed over and was about $4k higher than a better equipped model invoice that I had looked up. Then later at another lot, I had warranty work done. They ran my truck through the car wash (it was clean, I didn‘t ask for it, and they didn’t tell me). Scratched the hell out of the roof and when I complained they told me to get off the lot or they would throw me off.