see you are guessing again, i do most of my own work. >Easily drive it a decade or longer okay there, for a few grand gotcha... maybe if you only drive 20 miles a week i could see that >If this is something you believe is impossible, again, your mechanical ineptitude is showing. look above Lest see how long that 3k car is going to last you on a 30k mile a year you expecting to get over 300,000 miles on a 3 thousand dollar car? (mind you now i'm including any new parts (and time) you are throwing into it) A new car today can easy go 300k miles with little to no major rapairs when maintained. infact it will probably rust away before anything happens. so again if you communte is 30 miles a week great buy a pos car then, if not and dont wanna be stranded because you were too cheap to begin with go for it. again, orginal point... only commies tell people what they buy and spend money on fucking fag