Originally Posted by Fitz98
I feel like once I have this behind me, I will have a good running, relatively dependable vehicle back in service.
This is the "black hole" of owning an old vehicle on it's last legs that many of us have experienced. One keeps throwing more and more money and time at it with the thinking that "once I have fixed this problem, since I have already fixed almost everything else that can go wrong, it will be good for awhile". This is almost never the case with an old worn-out vehicle. Vehicles are far more complicated than many people think and something else will ALWAYS go wrong. There is a point in every vehicle's life where it is time to stop pouring good money into it and put your hard-earned money into a newer vehicle instead. I have been following your saga with this rusty old Expedition for awhile now and IMO this truck has reached the point of "time to replace". I know what you are thinking, "I have already spent so much time and money on it that I hate to give up on it now", just consider this experience a "lesson learned" going forward.
I feel like once I have this behind me, I will have a good running, relatively dependable vehicle back in service.
This is the "black hole" of owning an old vehicle on it's last legs that many of us have experienced. One keeps throwing more and more money and time at it with the thinking that "once I have fixed this problem, since I have already fixed almost everything else that can go wrong, it will be good for awhile". This is almost never the case with an old worn-out vehicle. Vehicles are far more complicated than many people think and something else will ALWAYS go wrong. There is a point in every vehicle's life where it is time to stop pouring good money into it and put your hard-earned money into a newer vehicle instead. I have been following your saga with this rusty old Expedition for awhile now and IMO this truck has reached the point of "time to replace". I know what you are thinking, "I have already spent so much time and money on it that I hate to give up on it now", just consider this experience a "lesson learned" going forward.