I’ve always been a little jealous of those people who say, “Oh yeah, my car is 18 years old and still runs like new.” Meanwhile, someone else buys a shiny new vehicle and by year four it’s already making weird coughing sounds like it caught a cold. So what’s going on here? Is it luck, karma, or just bad decision making at the dealership?
Honestly,...
There’s this weird moment that happens when you walk into a mechanic’s shop. The smell of oil, that half-broken fan spinning somewhere, and the feeling that you’re about to hear a sentence that starts with “Well… it’s not good.” I’ve been there too many times. And after a few years of owning cars that were definitely older than they should’ve been, I started noticing...