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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dimwhit" data-source="post: 2716185" data-attributes="member: 2576">I'll offer this thought, Morrus. How well does the car run? I ask because a running car is worth much more than what you can sell it for. Example:We had a '97 Ford Taurus. It was a good car. Within the last year to 18 months, we had put close to $2000 into it, and it was running great. I knew the car intimately (not in the Biblical sense) and I knew we'd get many more years out of it. It was only worth about $2500 if I were to sell it.Then the wife and kids were in a nasty accident and the car was totaled. I got the book value of the car from the insurance company and was able to buy a '99 Taurus. But now I have no idea what kind of condition it's in. I'm having issues with it now that may or may not involve a tranmission problem. And I don't know if more will come up in the near future. I'd take my older '97 Taurus any day over our current car.So, if you like your car, and it runs well for you, it's worth putting more into it than it's worth if you're comfortable in its longevity. If it's already a constant source of annoyance with breakdowns, then it's probably not worth it.That's my 2 cents. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>