How old is your rig?

[CharlesHarris]

(14 August 2018, 14:43)Mortblanc Wrote: ...My Jeep is now 21 years old and is for all practical purposes a garden ornament...So I chase problems and watch small things I can not control fall apart with age so that the vehicles still operates, but not with the efficiency or convenience it once did, again, much like myself. When does one declare their favorite vehicle "too old to fool with"?

I drove my 1984 AMC-Jeep until 2000, when I traded it for a 2000 model year Cherokee Sport 6 cyl., which I am still driving to the tune of about 3500 miles per year and I am blessed with a good mechanic at the dealership who keeps it running affordably. It has 200,000 miles on it. Service manager says that the Jeep models are junk, and that if I stay on top of the important stuff and do nothing stupid I should expect to get 250,000 miles out of my current vehicle. Then to decide whether to put a new engine in it and carry on, or to look for something else.

My daily driver is a 2008 Toyota Matrix, a four-door hatch back built on the Corrola
chassis, similar in size to a VW Polo. It has been reliable and has 150,000 miles on it.

I dread having to replace either.