Re: Re: At Peugeot they don't capitalize their own in ventions
From: Thomas Pulliam (tpulliam@gmail.com)
Date: Wed 01 Dec 2004 - 16:02:08 EST
In Washington no inspection eather, you see cars from the 60s to
current all the time. Many times in rural areas, most cars are older
(mostly mid 70s vintage, cause they are rear wheel drive). My parents
get a car when its a few years old, and drive it till it dies. They
keep it up very well, my parents 94 Crown Victoria has 250,000 on the
original engine, and still looks like a new car (always garaged,
always kept up). If the engine goes, they will just buy another one
(engine), and have it installed. People sometimes in rural areas just
drive it till it looks crummy, and then get a few year old model. My
parents last car? 1978 Oldsmobile (purchased 1983) 98 Gas. It went
for 260,000 miles on original engine, then it just got too tired, but
there were a lot of quality issues, so in 1996, they got the Crown
Victoria.
I plan to drive my 505 till its in the same boat, but it def needs a
new paint job if its gonna last that long (120,000 miles turn this
week). The mechanicals are great, its just keeping everything else
going and functioning that is the issue!
Thomas
On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 14:07:13 EST, tdpug82@aol.com <tdpug82@aol.com> wrote:
> In a message dated 12/1/04 4:29:09 AM Central Standard Time,
> mtimberlake@mitsuibabcock.com writes:
>
> > Subj: RE: [Peugeot-L] Re: At Peugeot they don't capitalize their own in
> > ventions
> > Date: 12/1/04 4:29:09 AM Central Standard Time
> > From: mtimberlake@mitsuibabcock.com
> > To: Fujitsu@turbo505.com, peugeot-L@yahoogroups.com
> > Sent from the Internet
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Here in the UK the roads are salted when there's even a slight risk of
> > overnight frost.
> > A car with over 100k is considered a high miler and a candidate for the
> > scrapheap. I once owned a six year old Citroen Xantia 1.9 TD (fantastic
> > car), with 170k miles on it... an ex taxi. I was shocked at how well it
> > ran/looked.
> >
> > Another thing to consider is the value of cars here. Whereas you'd
> probably
> > repair a 10 year old car with a blown engine, over here it'd be junked. My
> > current car is just over 10 years old, and is worth £400 at most, so any
> > major repair is just not worthwhile. There also seems to be a 'disposable
> > car' culture here, where people will buy someting for under £200 and run
> it
> > til the MOT expires, or it breaks. I used to do it myself.. I've owned 12
> > cars (one at a time!) in my 8 years of driving. I had a 1989 405SRi (cost
> me
> > £100), completely rotten but ran ok. It needed welding on the chassis, so
> I
> > just ran it til it finally gave up.
> >
> > Marc
>
> Over where Im at (southern Illinois) there is no inspection - you see 25 +
> year old pickups on the road beat, and rusted bad. Friend drives a old 77
> Ford ,
> thats so rusty the floors are patched (if they werent , can you say
> Flintstones ?) and the column shift sometimes jambs (the cab is sinking in
> on the
> frame, causing linkage problems) - if anyone bought this truck , just go to
> the
> licence office, order new plates, and have the title switched . Most people
> here
> have newer cars (this new easier financing these days makes it easy to get a
> newer car with little down) ,
> sounds like in the UK, dont get attached to a car ! Ive had my GTO since
> 1993, my Grandvilles since 1992 , and my 505 almost 3 years .
>
>
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