Math on having a second vehicle
I'm thinking about getting a little run around car instead of driving my Duramax as a DD. I drive about 200-250 miles a week and am looking as spending around $5000-$6000 on a little car. I would l...
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lazydays wrote:
I commute over 650 miles a week for my job. No way in the world would I drive my truck through that morning and afternoon mess. My little Cobalt has 192k miles on it and runs great. I sold my cavalier with 255k miles on it and it was running just as good as the day I bought it. The Colbalt is payed for, cheap on gas, insurance, and maintenance. I consider it a throw away car. Once its used up I'll get another one. I pretty much do not put any money into it unless I have to. So far only brakes and tires in the 9 years wife and myself have owned it.
In your case, I'd do what you've done...I drove 200 miles a day for 22 months to and from work (100 miles one way, 5 day's a week, 1000 miles a week), and purchased a used small car, (been years ago)...Did it again from 97 to 2000, 'cept it was only 120 miles a day, (600 miles a week, but 720 when we worked Saturday's about every other week)...IN THAT scenario, one would just about HAVE to have a second car to commute...Agree in your case.
