Originally Posted by Ws6
Originally Posted by supton
Originally Posted by Quattro Pete
Originally Posted by supton
My wife is a stay at home mom but drives 25k/year.
Wow. Do you live hundreds of miles from the nearest grocery store?
I work from home, but I drop my kid off at school every day and pick him up sometimes as well. I don't do more than 5K miles a year, and that's including running some weekend errands.
It's about 9 miles to the store. But she goes that way at least once a day, my kids take dance lessons next to it. Seems like she comes up with a good reason to go out shopping once a week, and Concord or Lebanon are a good 30 miles each way, plus whatever she does while in the city. So 200 miles a week is easy to do, then toss in other trips.
Originally Posted by Ws6
Also, yes, screw that nickel and dime BS. My vehicles need to be 100% functional, as close to 100% of the time as possible. Time is money to me, and I would rather work an extra shift or so to pay for the difference between a fixer-upper and a new car with a solid, long-lasting warranty.
There's a problem with warranty: using it. I usually buy cars from one dealer, and that's on the way to work, so no big going out of my way to get there. But it's still a time-suck to swing in and have them look at something. Then if it is something... I'm not sure what the loaners are like now, I recall getting a free loaner when the car was new (one or two years old), but no idea on the other side of 100k.
You pay a lot for warranty and loaners. I'm trying to get to the point where I can drop off a problem vehicle at a shop and have it down for days while I drive something else. Unfortunately the shop that I had been using retired.
I haven't used anything else yet, and no one seems able to beat my pricing on labor.
My dealer put me in a 2018 CX5 Grand Touring last time my 2015 CX5 Touring with 106K miles was in the shop. I ended up trading for a 2019 CX5 Grand Touring Reserve. They are sneaky like t hat, lol!
Loaners etc. aren't extra. Mazda dealers are solid. At least, mine is.
You pay $650 a month for a CX5?