Boxer Lovers wrote:
I hate to be the contrarian, but if you're limited to $50k and you blow a $30k diesel engine, you're in trouble by my calculations.
You're assuming that there is no savings that could be tapped or they don't have an extended warranty. We set up a maintenance/repair fund with 10% of the purchase price of our rig and have added to it each and every month. When something needs to be fixed, we fix it, when maintenance needs to be done with do it, when it is time to replace tires/batteries/whatever, we replace them. Fund keeps on growing.
Barb