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Our family car is a '13 Forester.
We've had a couple of issues with it, but they're weird ones. Like, the rear view mirror has fallen off. And the sunglasses case is perpetually open and wont close. We also just had to replace a drive shaft. Not terribly expensive at Midas. Like $250. Tire situation can be rough, having to replace them all because of AWD wearing, the engine "pings" a bit which is weird. We use it for all of our family road trips, and all of the kids activities all summer long, so we have about 84K miles on it in just over 5 years. Our kids have done from 4yo and 1yo to 9yo and 6yo and havent really damaged the interior at all, at least not in any meaningful way. Id like to get another two years (at least? seems reasonable?) out of my 2005 Toyota Matrix w/ 135K miles on it and wait to see if more fully electric, family-sized vehicles come on the market. I am not a car person. In fact, I am a person that essentially thinks we should have them at all, but that's another story all together. |
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If I clean it up, I could maybe sell it for $5k; or I can hang onto it for a couple of years and pay to junk it. We'll see what happens. |
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My 04 Forester XT just turned 144k miles and is still running like a champ. But like all vehicles with age, things will start to wear out and need replacing. I've been pretty lucky so far, just a few minor things that I've fixed myself. The hope is to make it to 200k with it, but as-is, it's still pretty valuable since it has the rare 5spd trans. I can't find anything else new like it, so I'll just keep it!
With your Jeep, if you've already spent money to keep it alive and you have a sort of attachment to it, might as well keep it going as long as you can! A rusted out Jeep that still fires up is still worth money just because it says Jeep on it. Put a chunk of the "new car" cash aside and wait until you actually "need" a new vehicle. |
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There was a guy who posted about his Forester that is (iirc) 4 years old and has around 40k miles and he's already had to replace wheel bearings in 3 out of 4 wheels. Its crazy! When I had my old BMW, I had to replace one set of bearings at like 185k and those were replacing the originals! |
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I've never had to do a wheel bearing, ever. I've had a few high mileage cars too. That's crazy a Subaru needed one with that soon. The weirdest failure my Subaru had was the main driveshaft at 120k. $500 for a replacement and a few hours of work.
The availability of car parts online and the great YouTube community really make keeping old cars (or bikes, or toasters, etc) alive and out of the landfill. |
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^ Amen to that!
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