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Yeah, that's usually my perspective. It might seem annoying if every three or four months I have to spend a few hundred bucks to fix something (and usually it's not that frequent or that expensive), I just remind myself that to be driving a new car I'd be spending three or four hundred bucks EVERY MONTH, and I couldn't do nearly as much of the service myself, so all non-warranty repairs would be expensive dealer repairs.
Not that this perspective would be much consolation to Volvolina at this moment.
My other theory is that cars have a midlife crisis, a painful process over a two or three year period where everything that is going to go wrong will go wrong and get fixed. Once all of the weak components get replaced (admittedly that can be a long, frustrating process), the car becomes quite reliable again if all the maintenance is done right. If Volvolina unloads this car after doing that much work on it, the next owner will be pretty lucky to be getting a car with lots of new components. That's the real trick, isn't it? You never know when the next repair will be the last that you will have to do for quite a while....
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