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Yep, it sounds a little crazy but car companies are doing too good a job of building their products!Cars no longer rust, and if well maintained most go for years.I have an 8 1/2 year old Hyundai Santa Fe that all I have done is oil changes, filter changes, one set of new tires and one replacement lamp. I've spent less than $1000 on this car in more than 8 years. And there are still 1 1/2 years to go on the factory powertrain warranty!Stoopid Hyundai. Years back, they used to make cruddy cars that broke down after a year or two.
Driving under 10k miles per year benefits car owners greatly. If you drove 15k miles/year and were out of any warranty after 7 years, you might consider trading in before buying your 3rd set of tires.As a side note: I took in an '04 Santa Fe on Wednesday night. 143k miles and it definitely has rust. ACV (actual cash value) was $500.
2006 Ford Explorer with 220,000 miles is still running fine.2014 Chevy & 2018 GMC we should hopefully own for quite awhile.
TAMUI do know, Newsie is right on you knowing ball.
I don't see many rusty cars, but I'm not in the biz and I obviously believe you. In 8 1/2 years, my Santa Fe has 77,000 miles, so yes, we are low-mileage drivers.Yowsa! That's many tons of vehicular fun!
That's because you live in the south where they don't need to salt the roads all winter long. There are plenty of rusty cars north of the Mason Dixon.
I have a 2013 Chevy AWD Equinox (49000) and 2014 Odyssey (34000). I'm probably one of the few here who bought brand new, both for cash and no financing. Since I'm not very handy when it comes to fixing cars so I purchased a 10 and 8 year extended warranty respectively. I'm glad I did. I was quite surprised that it paid for new rotors, struts, shocks and wheel alignment, but not the brakes on my Equinox. I still have another 4 years on the warranty. So far between the two cars my extended warranties have saved me about 5k in repair and maintenance expenses. I have only shelled out about 2k out of pocket, mostly for new tires on both vehicles.
Let's see. '01: a collector about to be sold to my buddy for full restoration.'07: 'brand new' Miata. 17,000 miles. Absolutely cherry.'03: V8 Explorer. She's my tow vehicle and only has 80k. I was unbelievably blessed to find her last year replacing our '02 that gave up the ghost at 200k. Back from the days before they ruined 'em. Didn't even have to change any of my hitch setups.'12: our daily driver Mazda6. About 55,000 miles on her. We're not going to need a car for years.
This is more of a "things I don't get" but I've never understood the internet's obsession with Miatas. I mean, cool little cars and all, but go on Jalopnik and other similar sites and it's like you're carrying around a piece of the True Cross.
The minute that warranty is up on that Equinox, dump it.
Avg age 11.8 years. People hanging on to cars a lot longer.My truck is 13 years oldWife’s car is 10We have a car for the kids to use to get to their jobs... 8All 100,000+ miles easily, all running well.https://apnews.com/bc5bc21edffb422290c9ca66345e0748
One of the things that drew me to Hyundai was its 5-year bumper-to-bumper warranty and its 10-year warranty on the drivetrain (where all the real expensive stuff is).I have been very impressed with the quality of my 2011 Santa Fe and by not needing any costly repairs -- warranty repairs or otherwise. So when it came time to get a new car for my wife 3 years ago, she got a 2016 Sonata Hybrid. It is a GREAT car that we also plan to drive for 10 years. Hyundai has come a long way as a brand; its cars are regularly near the top of Consumer Reports rankings.FWIW, we paid cash for both. I hate financing cars ... or pretty much anything else, especially stuff that depreciates.