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Normally when I get 60 to 70 K miles which is usually done in 3 to 4 years.

I replaced my 4 runners at 90k miles. The last one at 50k. It was mechanically perfect but the body was pretty scratched and dented and I liked the 2018 TRD 4wd and the trade value. We travel 6 months/year and I don't like messing w/ vehicles. A 4wd 4Runner w/ good tires is perfect for us.



mike r

My old jeep had 160,000, my Dodge has 180,000. I sold jeep to son in law, keeping Dodge to drive to work for another two years, then give to grandson. I bought a new 3/4 Dodge diesel, 4x4 last Saturday. I will start getting my Social Security in March, it will pay for new truck. I owe nothing else, should be able to pay it off in two years. I put half the price of truck down. I drive 200 miles to deer lease. I hate driving that far in a vehicle with so many miles on it.

Yessir. Backing into salt water all the time is hell on brakes.

Back in 1979 I ordered out a new F-150 the way I wanted it. Drove that till 1991. Sold it outright had a succession of used vehicles for 23 years after that. In 2004 I bought a used Tacoma with a 5spd 4 cyl and 76k miles on it,in Oct of 2016 with 244k on it the clutch started slipping so I parked it and drove a 1994 GMC I had. At the end of October 2016, Ford had a model year clearance sale and I got a good deal on a 2016 F-150. The thing of it is I got to a point where I'd have sit down and draw up a list on the Tacoma and GMC before I went anywhere of things to do and check before leaving for a cross state trip. I don't want to be the guy broke down at night along side the road. Just before T-day that fall coming home from prairie deer hunting, the GMC ate a mule buck at 55 mph. I live in the country and owning only 1 vehicle is not an option. What you drive, NEEDS to be dependable and if it's not it's time to buy something else. MB

I buy new every four years or approximately 80,000 miles. From a pure economic viewpoint, that not real smart. But that’s what I do and I’m not changing. Have a 19 silverado ordered to replace the 15.

I drive something for 20 yrs until the transmission or engine takes a major crap. Like nuclear meltdown.

Then I go buy another 'new-to-me' 10year old vehicle.

Yep. Implied, as I see that stated, is also the possibility the job changes and the current one won't do it well. Family situation changes, purchase of something heavy to tow, etc could also reasonably trigger a change.

Tom

"When is it time to start thinking about another vehicle?"

When your wife starts to worry about breaking down in the current vehicle.

It's one thing for a guy to have car troubles at 11pm on a lonely road, and quite another for our wives/daughters.

I have only bought 2 new cars in my life (I'm 62yo), one in 1975 and the other in 2005. I just sold the 2005 a few months ago with 197k on it. I'll never buy another new car.

When I grow tired of the old one. I have a '16 F150 I'm ready to trade in now, but decided to wait on the 2020s and new body style.

Your vehicles are just getting broken in...... Hunting/fishing/garbage truck 350K+....Good truck 235K+..... wife' car almost 140K. I wouldn't take of just any where in the old truck, but the other two vehicles are in good condition, been serviced regularly and I'd take off anywhere in them.

I don't know but they should replace them in Michigan a lot sooner. I mean the rust problem is terrible up here.

Do a lot of people in the north still have a 'winter' vehicle, usually a rust bucket, for driving on the salted roads? And, then a nice 'summer' car that is garage kept in the winter.

Yep,

I've had this 48 years and way past 117,00 on ths GM product, it will last quite a few more, no plans in the near future of replacing it...

I try to wait to buy when purchase price - trade in price / years of ownership is $2000 or less. You can include/exclude tax and/or set your own number as you choose.

That's a pretty open definition, ain't it? A Toyota Camry with 250K on the clock would not worry me one bit (if I've been the one maintaining it) for a winter time cross country trip.

With cell phones, even a local break down at 11 pm is no biggie. Just run out with the truck and pull it home in a pinch.

Replace it when you want to, because you want to. Provided it doesn't mess with long term financial goals, of course.

We are currently researching buying a 4 season, 21' ish travel trailer and a snow machine. this would require a pickup for optimum use. This is a whole new world for me so much studying yet to be done. Standby for lot of questions. Sometimes the anticipation and planning is 1/2 the fun.


mike r

nice goat!