When is it time to trade in old car?

[Lamb]

If you own a car, when is the time to trad it in? Or do you drive it until it's dead?

My daughter has our old hand-me-down car and my dad told her it's time to get a different used car. But she wants to drive it until she can't anymore. What do you do?

 

[psalms 91]

I have no choice as this is the only car I can afford. It is 18 years old but still runs great. When it dies I will not have one and in a rural area that is not good

 

[tango]

If you own a car, when is the time to trad it in? Or do you drive it until it's dead?

My daughter has our old hand-me-down car and my dad told her it's time to get a different used car. But she wants to drive it until she can't anymore. What do you do?

It depends on your budget and the personal consequences if it packs up completely.

When I lived in the big city I drove a car that was 21 years old. It had all sorts of issues but what mattered was that when I turned the key it started, when I pressed the gas pedal it went and when I pressed the brake pedal it stopped. If it packed up completely my plan was to use a combination of public transport, my bicycle, and taxis if I needed to haul anything big or heavy.

If I used the car all the time and would find myself really stuck without it, I'd look to trade it in when it became unreliable.

Of course all this only works if you've got the money to replace it - I'd rather stick with a known car than buy something very cheap and hope it didn't come with a whole bunch of issues I'd find out about in a week or two.

 

[Rens]

I have no choice as this is the only car I can afford. It is 18 years old but still runs great. When it dies I will not have one and in a rural area that is not good

You can get cars here for free, good Mercedes old timers, but they drink like an idiot, so noone wants em.

 

[Rens]

We had a car years ago. My dad bought it. Motor gave up all the time. It costed more to have the thing fixed than the car itself costed. Lol that filthy black smoke came out of it. Then one day someone stole the radio that was in it and kicked in the glasses. Then it was enough.

 

[Josiah]

My parents buy new Toyota Camry's (typically at "end of the year" sales).... and keep them FOREVER (I mean like 15-20 years and 250,000+ miles!). They last that long when well maintained....

When my 90 Buick Century Limited Wagon "Surfmobile" was ripped off, they gave me their 99 Camry (which they still considered practically brand new). I kept that car until 2012 when I purchased my Miata, but actually, it was still running perfectly and looked practically new; still didn't burn any oil and still passed all the tests with flying colors (the CD player didn't work, however).

My wife's 15 year old Corolla has well over 200K on it and for some reason BARELY passed the smog test.... it has some cosmetic issues, too. For now, we're hanging onto it just in case something "family oriented" is in our future and maybe an SUV should be forthcoming; until such I think we have nothing to loose keeping it, especially since we can't sell it as a working car if it doesn't pass the smog test here in California.


- Josiah

 

[psalms 91]

You can get cars here for free, good Mercedes old timers, but they drink like an idiot, so noone wants em.

send me one please

 

[Rens]

send me one please

Oh they raised the price, 1 euro now.

https://www.marktplaats.nl/a/auto-s...0d84f75c3056cc6db858f31&previousPage=lr&pos=2

 

[Brighten04]

Replace the old car when it becomes a money pit.

 

[Lamb]

My daughter's car is a Toyota Corolla with 129,000 miles on it. Things have been going wrong with it for the past 6 months now but I'd hate to have things go wrong on another used car too like tango said!