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Originally Posted by Old_Stevenick

I agree. There's always the "throwing good money after bad" line. Why put money into the van if it's going to die? But as you say even if the payments were only $500/mo that's $6K a year in repairs and huge savings in insurance and excise tax. (In Massachusetts we pay an excise tax on our vehicles based on their value, basically a property tax. So a new vehicle is costly beyond the payments.)

If you look at my sig you'll see what I'm driving. The truck basically only yows our trailer with an occasional run to lumber yard or use uyility trailer. Bottom line for us is that with the minimal milage and conditionnof the truck, putting a grand or two in repairs is just money wrll spent. I got over wanting the latest/greatest gizmo or wanting to impress others many years ago.