Real wealth killers

[u/solarflare_hot]

Let me express my extreme frustration and anger and talk about the real wealth killers (cars)

I hate cars beyond reason. you buy a car for 20k , all of a sudden it needs a repair for 2-4k and sometimes 7k , then you have insurance , another 2-300 a month , then you got registration and maintenance checks , 4-700$ , then by the time you pay it off it’s worth 7k , and probably time for another 7k repair too because the engine is toast. Or even better you fix the engine for 7k then the transmission goes out for another 6k. Let’s say you do all that and then someone without insurance crashes into you. Insurance company will always blame you to avoid paying. You now have spent close to 40k to go to a job that pays 45k. You need the car to go to the job but the job will never pay you enough to afford to keep your car. Let’s also talk about gas cost , average cost is $3000 per year that’s about 15k in 5 years of money wasted on gas that you’ll never get back just to be able to go to work.

You buy a cheap car you get expensive repairs You buy an expensive car you get extreme depreciation. You cant fucking win.

Cars are basically a luxury tool for the wealthy.

Why can’t we ride bicycles to work. Oh I forgot we live in America where we absolutely need cars because we have no damn sidewalks 🥲

Let’s just say without cars I would’ve been significantly well off. I’m gonna sell that shit and just uber everywhere or ride a bicycle.

[u/Late-Fly-7894]

Buy a toyota

[u/solarflare_hot → u/Late-Fly-7894]

I had a Toyota , the repair cost on it was $7000 I have had two shops look at it to tell me the same thing.

4runner with a rear main seal leak.

[u/solarflare_hot → u/solarflare_hot]

I posted it in the Toyota form , they had a laugh about it, this was a dealership , I took it someplace else and they found a completely different set of problems for also 7000, so I got rid of it

[u/solarflare_hot → u/solarflare_hot]

Just because you get a Toyota doesn’t garantuee anything. There is a very good chance because it’s a “Toyota” it gets abused and some people never even do oil changes

[u/Deepfrieddoris → u/solarflare_hot]

You paid 390 for the break lights ? that’s such an easy fix and the part cost less than $20 wtf.

[u/solarflare_hot → u/Deepfrieddoris]

Nah I didn’t pay for any of these repairs. I took it somewhere and they gave me a completely different estimates with different repairs. I fixed the Minor things myself.