“...needed a second re-built engine at 160,000 miles.”
Do you think doing that was the economical way to go? Our son’s 2016 Ford Escape 1.6L EcoBoost engine has a design flaw that lets coolant into the combustion chambers and causes all sorts of havoc. We looked at a rebuilt engine, but putting a remanufactured engine into an old car with 230k on the clock just seemed like a poor investment.
All these electric appliances, lawnmowers, leaf blowers, snow blowers, are nice, but unless you have solar panels at your house and you are completely off the grid, your utility is probably polluting for you.
It is going to be years before “renewable” technology outpaces burning gasoline.
I do.
I blew a Jeep engine at around 100 K.
Getting it rebuilt was the equivalent of 5 months car payments.
There was nothing else wrong with the car.
I got around 130 K out of the rebuilt.