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Location: We_tside PNW (Columbia Gorge) / CO / SA TX / Thailand
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What a great ideal! Thumbs up for supporting them. Wish there was a program like that around me... I'd donate my commuter cars to them after I am done. Is there a link?
Location: We_tside PNW (Columbia Gorge) / CO / SA TX / Thailand
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A block heater would be nice, but my landlord won't let me run an extension cord to the parking lot. As for the fuel, I do add 3 or 4 ounces of PS to each tank. Just to be on the safe side.
There once was a "Car Talk puzzle"... Why did the 'Cold Country' motel refuse to rent a lower level room to a particular traveling salesman ONLY during the winter? ...
(He drove a diesel Rabbit... Motel didn't want to power the block heater, and they could see if he draped his power cord over the railing. )
I used to get a room for 4 hrs in Casper and had to leave my freight truck running and go out every hour and switch the tank valve to keep the warm fuel circulating in different tanks. Occasionally she would gel up, so we would dose tank in gasoline (ick) and 'Torch it'. Made quite the flame for few minutes. Very impressive at 4 AM in a raging blizzard
Kids very old and tired Jetta got too cold in ski resort. I had to build a tent and take heaters to 'warm it up' before it would fire. TDI's I have no trouble. I fetched a used one from a Dr in MSP in January and drove 18 hrs home in a blizzard. (on a single tank of fuel).
BTW... Your TDI's might prefer a different fuel stabilizer than PS (has alcohol) Injection pumps hate that stuff.
I use Stanadyne, Red Line, or Amsoil fuel additives. You know when your TDI likes it... 6-8% mileage improvement! and really quick starts. Winter mileage in TDI can be poor 46 - 47mpg (boo hoo).
I always hear it from people who just bought a car. I also promised this to myself when I bought a car 5 years ago but I can't imagine myself driving the same car in 2025.
I'm tempting to buy a Tesla Model X next year and keep it for 10 years
Did you promise that to yourself when you bought your car? Did you keep your promise, why and why not?
I drive my cars into the ground. My last car was 5 years old when I bought it, and I kept it for 13 years (315,000 miles). I was sad to get rid of it and still miss it. I also though eat the same things all the time, and watch episodes of the Office I’ve seen a million times most nights. Some people like change, and some of us like the comfortable and familiar.
Location: New Albany, Indiana (Greater Louisville)
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I regret car hopping too much in the past. Longest I've had a car is 4 years 9 months. Some of that is due to not having the money for newer used cars before graduating college so I went from cheap to cheap with problems. Had current car about 3 years and the goal is to keep it 5 (it would then be 13 years old) before getting my first car after student loans are done and I could afford something that's close to new.
My wife and I are driving a vehicle that's fifteen years old.
It's a 2005 Toyota RAV4.
It's needed a fair amount of work but the engine and transmission are still strong.
We will likely replace it this summer.
It's cramped and noisy and gets poor mileage and has terrible infotainment but gets the job done.
I am a car buff and I do enjoy the features new vehicles have, but I also really enjoy having paid off vehicles.
And, yes, you will spend a lot more maintaining an older vehicle, but it's generally not more than the equivalent of 2-3 car payments per year (at $500 per month car payment).
I always hear it from people who just bought a car. I also promised this to myself when I bought a car 5 years ago but I can't imagine myself driving the same car in 2025.
I'm tempting to buy a Tesla Model X next year and keep it for 10 years
Did you promise that to yourself when you bought your car? Did you keep your promise, why and why not?
I have kept every car I have bought, for 10 years or longer, except for the last one (which was my first used car). The ABS system started going out after 9 years, and I decided to go ahead and get a new(er) car.
I buy a car with the intention of driving it till it drops. Always have.
My 2006 Forester, which I bought new in 2006, only has 163,000 miles on it and still looks great and is going strong. I have no plans to replace it any time soon.
A household budget without a monthly car payment is a wonderful thing.
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Motel didn't want to power the block heater, and they could see if he draped his power cord over the railing. 
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