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Mechanic Recommendation for PPI

scootergmc said:
100k miles is still a big psychological weight for some people and their autos... Sometimes (like probably here- I have no experience, I'll defer to the experts) it's warranted.
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I think that with any vehicle, at upwards of 100k you are going to start to replace things such as the timing belt, water pump, starter, etc. then its all a case of how much $$ for parts and labor.

Conversely, if you buy a new car, you shouldn't have to pay anything outside of standard maintenance. Obviously, this is offset by depreciation.
 
Lorry said:
I think that with any vehicle, at upwards of 100k you are going to start to replace things such as the timing belt, water pump, starter, etc. then its all a case of how much $$ for parts and labor.

Conversely, if you buy a new car, you shouldn't have to pay anything outside of standard maintenance. Obviously, this is offset by depreciation.
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I absolutely agree. I just think some people get to the 100k mark and say, "welp, time to move on, it's gonna die soon." Very few people actually get the satisfaction of complete mechanical death of an auto. I'm working on it with my Civic, but they keep telling me a have a ways to go... :laughing
 
scootergmc said:
I absolutely agree. I just think some people get to the 100k mark and say, "welp, time to move on, it's gonna die soon." Very few people actually get the satisfaction of complete mechanical death of an auto. I'm working on it with my Civic, but they keep telling me a have a ways to go... :laughing
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I generally run my shit until it’s not worth fixing or someone else kills it with their fancy driving (happened twice).

I did run a car with a case of rod knock until it grenaded. Had rod knock for probably 50k miles. :laughing
 
aminalmutha said:
I generally run my shit until it’s not worth fixing or someone else kills it with their fancy driving (happened twice).

I did run a car with a case of rod knock until it grenaded. Had rod knock for probably 50k miles. :laughing
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50k with a rod knock? Most impressive.
 
TheRobSJ said:
I doubt whoever the OP is buying the car from is going to be willing to let them put all the miles to drive the car up to Oakland and back. I imagine that’s the problem here with using Bill.

If the miles aren’t a problem, then yeah live with the extra time it’ll take to get it to Oakland and back and absolutely use him.

Really though...Audi with a V6, over ten years old, and over 100k miles...I’d call that 3 strikes you’re out right there.
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I'm sure it's fine. His other car is a 30 year old Alfa Romeo from North Dakota.
 
aminalmutha said:
Started out as a tap, which became a click, which became a knock, which became a kablooey.
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I've seen many a tractor engine with holes in the block; it's hard to hear those knocks until the kablooey. Operational oil pressure gauges are important- as is a conscious operator...:laughing
 
scootergmc said:
I've seen many a tractor engine with holes in the block; it's hard to hear those knocks until the kablooey. Operational oil pressure gauges are important- as is a conscious operator...:laughing
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This was a POS Daewoo (don't ask) that was basically worth nothing already and not worth fixing. But it went from here to there, didn't use much gas and was surprisingly not that bad to drive. It was only a matter of time before it gave up the ghost and to be honest, it went much farther than I expected.

The last day of its life, I knew it wouldn't make it home. Pulled into a parking lot, shut it off and it clattered like it had never clattered before. Made it half way home. This is why I have AAA. :laughing

I kept it topped off with cheap oil until it went no mo'. :D
 
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aminalmutha said:
This was a POS Daewoo (don't ask) that was basically worth nothing already and not worth fixing. But it went from here to there, didn't use much gas and was surprisingly not that bad to drive. It was only a matter of time before it gave up the ghost and to be honest, it went much farther than I expected.

The last day of its life, I knew it wouldn't make it home. Pulled into a parking lot, shut it off and it clattered like it had never clattered before. Made it half way home. This is why I have AAA. :laughing

I kept it topped off with cheap oil until it went no mo'. :D
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Sounds like good times. I would've had a big smile on my face in that parking lot.

Wal Mart Supertech oil is a great deal these days.

Side note- My friends had a Daewoo Leganza back in 2002 that depreciated by a billion percent when they went belly up. I don't remember how much they sold it for, but I want to say I paid more for my lunch that day.
 
this dude back in college who was working at the rental car counter at the Spokane airport blew up a brand new Daywoo. the boss told him to get the car to a client downtown as fast as he could. he said he already had it wound up to max and was pushing a Ton Up when he hit the crest of that big long hill down into downtown Spokane. right before the bottom of the hill.......BLAMO!! :laughing
 
Had a humvee engine go on me one time in Iraq. It was already a junker we were going to scrap for parts and it had been towed into our maintenance bay anyway. Couldn't tow it to the spot we wanted it in to rip it apart though so we were going to push it but my chief said "nah, see if you can get it there running, the engine's fucked anyway who cares". So with some pretty gnarly noises coming from the engine protesting, we got it parked, and just before I shut it off my chief goes "floor it I want to see this thing blow."

So...I did. And it did. And how. I got about 10 seconds of redline out of it, if that, before it exploded. Whole vehicle jumped, loud bang, some smoke, and it stopped cold. No sputtering, no last wheezes, just bang and a cold hard stop.
 
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