Buying A Used Vehicle From Far Away
I'm currently looking for a gently used vehicle but I don't want to buy local. I live on Long Island so we get a double whammy on our cars. No matter where you are on Long Island you are never more ...
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drsteve wrote:
Think again. Here in MI there are plenty of ten year old vehicles with major amounts of rust from the road salt. Unless you store it all winter, it's going to get destroyed.
I don't need to "think again". I lived almost 50 years in Central Illinois and Iowa so I'm not just guessing about this.
How many 10 year old cars do you see running around WITHOUT major amounts of rust ?? Thousands....millions.....???
People who don't care can ruin about anything......and if you don't wash off the salt occasionally it will rust faster.
BUT.....that doesn't guarantee that ALL vehicles in that area will be a bucket of rust. Maybe they were seldom driven in the winter.
Except for a Pinto, a VW Beetle and a VW Bus back in the '70s, I have NEVER had a vehicle with "major amounts of rust" when I traded them off at near to 10 years old. NEVER.
