My last car was an 04 I bought 7 years ago for 3k and put like 120-140k miles on. Did all the maintenance myself.
It’s at 300k now and getting cranky and unreliable. But it owes me nothing. On top of that, my commute increased, and with gas prices being high, the 20-25mpg ain’t cutting it.
I just found a beautiful deal, an 07, 190k miles, but only $1300. Right now I’m averaging 42.5mpg over several hundred miles of driving.
It needed a few hundred dollars of suspension work, but I did it myself. This is the way.
I want an EV more than anything. I can change at home but not work. Though there are free chargers downtown I could use on the weekends and evenings. But the used prices are still too high for someone like me.
I had a Volt for a couple years, loved it. Got it dirt cheap, it was broken. I fixed it. It got totalled one winter, a real shame. Can’t afford to replace it.
Prices need to come WAY down before it’s feasible for your average person. Even us who fix are own cars can’t afford it, and we save tons!
My last car was an 04 I bought 7 years ago for 3k and put like 120-140k miles on. Did all the maintenance myself.
It’s at 300k now and getting cranky and unreliable. But it owes me nothing. On top of that, my commute increased, and with gas prices being high, the 20-25mpg ain’t cutting it.
I just found a beautiful deal, an 07, 190k miles, but only $1300. Right now I’m averaging 42.5mpg over several hundred miles of driving. It needed a few hundred dollars of suspension work, but I did it myself. This is the way.
I want an EV more than anything. I can change at home but not work. Though there are free chargers downtown I could use on the weekends and evenings. But the used prices are still too high for someone like me.
I had a Volt for a couple years, loved it. Got it dirt cheap, it was broken. I fixed it. It got totalled one winter, a real shame. Can’t afford to replace it.
Prices need to come WAY down before it’s feasible for your average person. Even us who fix are own cars can’t afford it, and we save tons!