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Keep Or Trade? 850 1997

posted by  sscaro1 on  Mon Jan 27 16:29 CST 2003
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I've been away for a while, would appreciate your thoughts.

I have a 97 T5 sedan with 160K miles, first 122k were almost entirely interstate miles. The car has been almost trouble free up until recently. All I did until last summer was an upper engine mount, o2 sensor, turbo oil return seal and routine maintenance, brakes, tires, etc. The car has been terrific! The problem is that I have had to do almost nothing, and I'm wondering if there are a lot of things that will need to be repaired soon.

This past summer I replaced the a/c evaporator, and since then there has been something at every oil service. Last service it needed a vacuum line repair (one of the elbows had cracked) and reman axles because the cv joint boots had cracked.

This time they found that the turbo oil return seal needed to be done again, and the turbo oil hoses are leaking and need to be replaced, as well as the rear cam seal.

Since the vehicles in my fleet (91 BMW M5 and Ford F-150) have 140k and 117k on them, I'm wondering if it is time to trade & put something younger in the fleet.

Any thoughts on what other repairs are likely to be needed from 160K to 200K if I keep the car? I've heard that alternators, water pumps & radiators are likely candidates and that I should probably replace the shocks. I know I will be doing brakes and tires also in a few months if I keep it.

Any thoughts on the trade/keep decision?






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