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Originally Posted by DRKS1D3
Everyone is different. If someone wants to buy a vehicle and beat the Hell out of it, that is their deal. It's their money. More power to them. With that being said, I don't understand why you'd intentionally neglect your vehicle...or any other item that you spent your hard-earned cash to purchase. My Camaro is a weekend toy. I have a 2013 Cruze as my DD and I take care of that little car as if it were my Camaro. Just because it's my DD, that doesn't mean I'm going to treat it any different. I suppose I just value my money more than some.  |
I see it everyday in my job. Cars have become disposable to people. They don't think of a car in the terms of "it cost me $60k" anymore it's more "it costs me $400/month" I work on some very nice cars that are treated like a garbage bin. Cars are worlds ahead on reliability and longevity than they ever used to be but the new vehicle owner treats it like a right and not a privilege. The old cars were lucky to have an engine or trans make it to 60k miles, I have personally worked on a lot of 200K plus vehicle with original engines/transmissions because people take care of them. I have worked on a duramax that has over 750k miles on original engine and trans because the owner repairs anything that fails and regularly services fluids and wear items. It looks like hell though, he uses it to haul heavy equipment and drill pipe across the country. Point being, we've lost the appreciation for a vehicle as a mode of transportation and gained a weak reasoning of having to have the prettiest new car on the block.