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[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The most reliable car I ever owned was a 1998 Suzuki Sidekick Sport. I drove it for over a decade. It was the only car from my son’s childhood that he remembers. We got two more with identical parts to move stuff around when it broke.

Now he’s driving it. It’s all to hell at this point, but it’s sentimental to him. It isn’t his daily driver, but he still takes it out pretty often to ride around in the mountains.

That car is two years older than him.

I barely ever changed the oil in it. Speed shifted one transmission too long and had to replace that. The harmonic balancer took a shit once. Otherwise just coil packs and a battery from time to time. Any other parts were minor and yanked from the identical one that sat right beside it. He still has both. I hit a deer with the old one, he hit a deer with the other one before we parted it out. The front is rigged together.

I can’t believe it’s still going.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Volvo 940, here. I'm replacing it this spring, though. But it still runs fine, and it recently passed inspection. The main reason why I'm upgrading is because I need an extra seat to fit the entire family.