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Message: <blockquote data-quote="shigman" data-source="post: 2007663" data-attributes="member: 57792"><p>I guess the high mileage thing comes in to play because nearly every single car Ive ever owned after 100-120K miles starts to have parts just fail.  Not really the fault of the vehicle, just that yeah after 10 years and 120K things like the radiator, alternator, AC, various bushings, sensors and belts need to be replaced or serviced.  There are two opinions on it, trouble free mileage and how many miles you can actually go before its costing 1000 bucks a month in repairs.  Ideally one would thread the needle, I've never understood people spending easily a car payment every month keeping a car on the road.  Once a vehicle has a whiff of leaving me stranded or being a couple weekends a month project of fooling around with it, I'm out.  Maybe Ive just been unlucky, some cars sure can go an easy 300K with only a few thousand in repairs.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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