The $10,000 A2 Jetta

When you figger that a new car payment for a decent car is around $400 a month, that doesn't look that bad at all.

nate

That's about 30% more than what I have had to pay for maintenance on my

I still think that is quite inexpensive, though. Towards its end (i.e., before I gave it away), my last Subaru wagon cost me ~$1,500 a year. Do that four years in a row and you take notice.

- D.

Well, 90% of the work has always been done by the dealer, and I tend to do allot of the nit-picky stuff that the dealer would charge an arm and a leg to do. But for stuff like oil changes, you know what, I am just gonna take to the dealer. I mean, heck, when you look at the amount of time it takes, the mess it makes and the fact that you can't get any documentation to back up the work history, it makes doing my own maintenance seem somewhat pointless. I mean, I will do it, but since I have no garage to do it in, it compels me that much more to have the work done.

But I do agree, it still isn't to bad cost wise. I know what other people have put into their GMs and this seems to be allot more reasonable. Besides, once she has been and gone to the body shop and I get my new Black headliner installed, as well as my alloy rims (when I finally buy them) she will be a really nice little A2.

Wolfie has about 278,000 on her...

She's getting up there in age...

- Peter

My '87 Golf has cost me around $14,000 in maintenance in the 7 years I've owned her. That includes an engine rebuild to the tune of just under $2,000. Now in that time I've put 288,000 miles on her which works out to just under 5 cents a mile. I do all my own work so very little of that is labor paid to a mechanic. I'm currently at

Todd Seattle,WA '86 GTI, Red of course. (exciting racey car) 256,000 miles '87 Golf, Polar Silver. (boring work car) 447,000 miles

That's the Spirit!

TBerk black headliner- Mmmmmmmm.