Girl's Electric Car Needs New Battery but It's More Expensive Than Vehicle Itself - Then She Gets Even Worse News...The Siwinskis were told the battery pack was at the end of its life and needed to be replaced, and the bill was going to be $14,000...The dealer said it couldn’t even get a battery.
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I have an '05 Suburban (we bought new) with 151,000 miles and have only fixed the air conditioning once. Love the car. The kids sometimes use it for their vacations. My husband has an '04 Dodge Ram (bought new)with 410,000 miles...original engine and trans. He loves his car too. Our grand son (23) recently asked us why we still are using our 33 year old refrigerator and we replied "because it still works fine". He is working with my husband to take over my husband's business (general contractor) and he makes fun of his old truck. But his dad recently bought a Tesla...so that says it all. But this is why we owe nothing and some of the kids are in debt. You can take a horse to water but you can't make him drink.
Teslas are fun as hell to drive, never have I felt that level of acceleration before (and that was a base model 3). Would I buy one though? HELL NO!!!
Love my 1990 Miata (my fun car), and 98 Ram van (the practical one). Plus considering the van has a wood stove, bed, and all the other necessities I could live in it if shit hit the fan.
Old vehicles are WAY better. Plus whenever anything breaks you can actually work on them, none of this "take it in for service" crap.
I agree with everything you said here. I buy those model Burbans because I used to wholesale cars and the models that lasted the longest were almost always Tahoe/Yukon, Burban/Yukon XL. I've seen so many of them over 300k miles on the original drivetrain that I couldn't make myself buy any other model. I like the way it looks, but, that's not important to me anyway. The Dodge 5.7 Hemi is a workhorse too. The newer cars, including Tesla, have far too many drawbacks with the technology to make me interested in the slightest bit. It's a machine that is still doing its purpose, no need to replace it. I have my oldest son saving for his first car now. I told him I'd match him and we'd buy cash as financing frivolous items is forbidden under my roof. I hope that sticks with all of my kids. A debt free life is a good life.