True. My Toyota-driving cousin is pretty well-heeled, and can afford
to write checks in large amounts to the degree that she might
occasionally forget to mention some car-related expense that would
have driven me to the point of suicide. But that said, I've heard
enough about Toyotas to suspect that as a rule, high maintenance
expenses are not part of the equation. To a lesser but still strong
degree I've heard similar stories about Honda and Nissan, though I
did drive an Accord wagon for a while and managed to sink some fairly
serious money into the kinds of repairs you never hear about until it
happens to you.
One of them, as I recall, was some kind of engine seal. I started the
car one winter morning, and came back about ten minutes later to find
a spreading pool of oil originating near the left front tire. Some
obscure seal that cost me a small fortune to have fixed. My local
mechanic said I had to have that one done by a dealer. At least I had
a AAA Deluxe membership, so it didn't cost anything to have the damn
car towed to the nearest Honda dealer (roughly 55 miles).
Last year was probably the first year since joining AAA that they
actually made a bit of profit off my membership. One year I had so
much car trouble I got letters from them stressing the benefits of
keeping up a maintenance schedule. <g>
--Bob Whitmire
www.bobwhitmire.com
On May 26, 2007, at 11:50 AM, Winsor Crosby wrote:
> I eventually got a Mazda, but a couple years later I overheard a
> group of these same owners laughing as they shared horror stories
> of component failure and the horrendous amounts they paid to have
> their cars repaired.
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