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I don't currently drive since I live in a city with great public transit but if i was forced to get a car it wouldn't be made after 2006. I like buttons and don't want to spend $400 replacing my rear view mirror because its linked to my touch screen for no damn reason
Don't forget the transformation from a 5 buck bulb to a 1000 buck complete LED-system. Yay!
5 bucks on a bulb? When, the 1980s?
That's still a normal price for a H7 to this day, what are you talking about?
But you will spend 1500 bucks replacing everything else on the car.
Also cars have plenty of buttons.
$1500 put into a 2003 Honda Accord is COMPLETELY different than putting that into a 2016.
And I want ALL buttons. No touch screen AT All
Yeah you will do it every six months.
Why are you lying?
I guess you have never dealt with the bullshit hassle of a 20 year old car…
Why are you living in a dream world?
I own four 20+ year old cars. Don't talk shit about stuff you have no clue about.
Old cars are work for sure, but if you are willing to learn it's not bad.
I have a 2007 Mustang. I've replaced the entire front suspension, rear differential, alternator, and paid an upholsterer to replace the convertible top. I upgraded the radio and put in a 10inch touch screen with Wireless carplay and integrated backup camera. Next up is dropping the trans to replace the clutch plate, throw-out bearing, resurface the flywheel, and replace the rear main seal on the engine while I'm down there because the flywheel is rusty and accumulates a thin layer of rust every morning that makes a grinding noise for 30 seconds until it grinds off.
It definitely doesn't just work like a new car, but since I do the work myself it also doesn't cost me much.
Sounds like a pretty good project car it sounds to me like that is your hobby.
I bet you have a very well provisioned toolset and a pretty sweet garage and don’t even think about the time you spend on that thing.
I have a todo list that will keep me busy for then next 3000 years, and that is before rebuilding the transmission on my 1999 is added to the list. (note that I assume the medical advances needed for me to live 3000 years are on someone else's list as I have no clue...) Eventually I have to give up on something so I can do something else.
So you will if you pay a loan for a new car...
...more, actually.
Honda Accords from that era are remarkably reliable, and can last for upwards of 250k+ miles