As I'm not a mechanic, I'd rather not deal with it. You sound like someone who enjoys tinkering around with cars. The time you spend keeping a car with 230,000k

As I'm not a mechanic, I'd rather not deal with it. You sound like someone who enjoys tinkering around with cars. The time you spend keeping a car with 230,000km on it running, I am spending doing other things. And unless that previous owner was obsessive compulsive, it's certainly going to have some funk after that amount of time. I want a car to provide its purpose, with the least path of resistance.