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Imagine if you went to buy a used car from Craigslist: Q: Who drove this car? A: Oh, whatever random people wanted to pay me money. Q: What kind of maintenan
by smackfu 12y ago
Imagine if you went to buy a used car from Craigslist:
Q: Who drove this car?
A: Oh, whatever random people wanted to pay me money.
Q: What kind of maintenance did you do?
A: The bare minimum to get it to last a year.
Q: What options did you get?
A: The lowest ones the manufacturer would sell us.
Does that appeal?
- johnsonmkj 12y agoActually you can pretty much guarantee optimal maintenance, because all cars are on a schedule and regulated by the corporate office. Everything else is spot on. You'd be surprised about the % of used cars starting in a rental fleet, even if they aren't sold by those companies directly.
- smackfu 12y agoTrue, but on a new car with relatively low mileage, I would think maintenance is essentially oil changes and tire inflation, and maybe brakes if the car is really abused.
- theandrewbailey 12y agoNo more or less than any other used car, aside from going through a hundred owners. It's like comparing an apartment vs. a hotel room. No one I know gets freaked out over a nice hotel room.
- fleitz 12y agoIt's risk vs. reward, to many people the increased cost of a brand new car is worth more than the risk of buying used. Also, if you buy a car thats 2 or 3 years old you can actually figure out what is likely to go wrong with it, something you generally don't get with new cars (unless you're buying a model is about to be refreshed) I generally find the maintenance required to keep the warranty generally exceeds the cost of repairs that might actually happen. It's not exactly rocket science to change air filters, oil, transmission fluid, and brakes. The other thing about cheap used cars is when they break, you get a new one. I'm not going to spend $2k on a new engine, I'm going to buy a new car for $2000-4000.