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Message: [QUOTE="Fishy, post: 2476595, member: 38"] We either have very good luck or very bad luck with cars. More good than bad....we’ve had at least five cars go over 200,000 miles. The latest is our knock-around car, a Passat, that will be retired for good in a couple of weeks with 272,000 miles on the clock. But the bad luck... When my wife and I first got married, we needed a car adn we collectively had a fortune in “GM bucks”, the GM program that gave you points for money spent on their credit card. There was a weird sale where GM would double your GM bucks if you bought a car currently in inventory - at the same time, the local Olds dealer was shutting and selling off his cars. Long story made short, we bought a $28,000 Olds Intrigue for about $14,000. And we regretted it instantly. The engine was taken out of that car so many times that I think it was moonlighting in another car. About a week after we owned the car, I drove it in the rain and almost drowned when water came over the firewall like Niagara Falls. Transmissions, suspension, steering, air condition, an entire door, everything was changed on that car on GM’s dime. In frustration, I asked the dealer how much he would give us in trade on ANYTHING and he said, “there is no way I would get involved with that car.” We put about 100,000 miles on the car...then a guy was installing hardwood floors for us and he mentioned that he needed a used car for his wife. I think we had three at that moment and he asked if we would consider selling the car. I told him that if he put in another room of hardwood and promised to take that car off my hands before sunset, he could have it. So he took it. And it stranded his wife on the Deegan near Yonkers Raceway a few weeks later. [/QUOTE]

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