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Post by monklady123 on Jun 27, 2018 20:01:49 GMT
We finally got rid of our old van, a 2002 Odyssey. The past several years I’ve really disliked it because of all the trouble we’ve had although nothing catastrophic which meant that dh wouldn’t agree to replace it. Until recently. $3,000 worth of potential repairs was the final straw. So we bought a 2014 Odyssey and donated the old one to Habitat for Humanity. They just came to pick it up today. I was surprised that I felt sad watching it go up on the back of the tow truck. 😢 That van took us all to Missouri and Florida and New England and all over Virginia and to the Adirondacks and the Smokies and to and from Pennsylvania and New York to see our families and to Delaware to the beach every year. It hauled soccer teams and football teams and dancers and dogs. It picked up crates of food donations and clothing leftovers from yard sales and ikea furniture and tools for a church work camp. A very productive life. 😀 I took off all my magnets of course but left the one sticker on that says “kind”. Farewell to a great van. We went from the Stone Age (2002) to the Space Age (2014). Honestly I can’t figure out the controls for half the stuff on the dashboard! 😜 Took me ten minutes and some time with the manual to figure out how to switch from the Bluetooth that dd had played her phone on to the plain ordinary radio. Lol  |
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Post by jayfab on Jun 27, 2018 20:03:43 GMT
Yep, my current MINI is a 2006 and even tho I have new car envy I just can't bear to let her go.
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Post by seaexplore on Jun 27, 2018 20:05:10 GMT
Yes! I cried when I traded in my completely trashed 2000 Intrepid for my 2012 charger. The intrepid had been thru hell and back and still ran with almost 250,000 miles on it! I also REALLY wish I still had my first car... it was my great grandmother's 1970 Grasshopper green metallic Buick Skylark. I "bought" it from her for $500 when I was 18. It was a fun car. Not that it's safe by any stretch. It doesn't get great gas mileage either. BUT it was family. I remember her driving it. I parked it at her graveside when she was buried. My dad made me sell it because we had too many cars at the house (I had since bought a newer skylark). The guy I sold it to blew up the engine within 2 days and came back looking for his money back. It was already at the bank and the car was at the tow yard.  I could have had it back for $150 but then would have had to put an engine in it and fix the damage he did when he ran it off the road. |
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Post by workingclassdog on Jun 27, 2018 20:15:10 GMT
Yes... my 2nd car I bought right out of high school.. My dad talked me into and I had no business owning it. It was a $300/mo car payment for an 18 year old in 1986! But I LOVED that car.. 1983 convertible Mustang, bright orange. Every spring I miss that car.. I had so much fun with it.. with my girlfriends, boyfriend, friends who were boys.. everyone loved it when I drove. We still talk about that car to this day. |
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Post by teddyw on Jun 27, 2018 20:18:37 GMT
Nope not about houses either.
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Post by AN on Jun 27, 2018 20:20:38 GMT
Nope, BYE.
It takes me a long time to be ready to switch cars, but once I'm ready -- totally over it. My first two cars died/got wrecked, so I didn't have much decision in it. My most recent car (before my current one) was running just fine but sold it while it was still worth something (about 170K miles). It took me over a year of thinking about a new car to decide to go through with it, but I didn't feel sentimental about it.
I'm 2 years in on my current car and just barely feel like I'm getting to know it! I definitely intend to keep it to at least 150K miles, unless there's some major change in technology/safety. Changing cars is a huge hassle to me.
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Post by psoccer on Jun 27, 2018 20:22:21 GMT
My brother and I were reminiscing about our first car. We went in together and bought a 1968 VW bug with a sunroof. We drove it through high school, he took it to college, then I took it back when he bought a motorcycle. It cost us $900 and we sold it for $900. I took it everywhere, to SF, San Diego, Tahoe, but I wouldn't be able to do that now, I wouldn't feel safe.
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Post by papersilly on Jun 27, 2018 20:22:42 GMT
Nope not about houses either. not me. i feel sentimental about the first house we lived in as newlyweds. we were there for only 3 1/2 years and yet i enjoy seeing it anytime we are in that town. the 2nd house, not so much. we lived there for 17 years and yet i don't feel particularly attached to the house itself. i loved the block we lived on, but the house, not so much. |
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Post by PLurker on Jun 27, 2018 20:22:47 GMT
I am still driving my 2003 Subaru Baja with 200K+ not only because it isn't dead yet but because "attached".
My DD21 and DS18 don't want me to get rid of it either even though neither of them drive stick, which this is.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 27, 2018 20:22:58 GMT
I still own my first car. A chevy cavalier. A great car to drive to drive around town, Great gas mileage, we just repainted it the blue I always wanted, dressed it up a bit
AND my son wrecked it.
I am not sure what to do with it.
I want the car fairy to come fix it.
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Post by J u l e e on Jun 27, 2018 20:27:05 GMT
YES! So much so that I still have it. The air conditioning died two weeks ago on my 2003 Honda Pilot. It was going to cost around $1000 to fix and my husband said it wasn't worth it and wanted to just go buy a new(er) car. We have replaced the alternator (maybe twice) and brakes (maybe twice) and other smaller things. It has 260,000 miles on it. I would get nothing trading it in. However, I may get a new car and give my 16 year old this one. She just drives to school and work. I feel like it'll at least last her last two years of high school.
I just don't want a new car. I want MY car. I love it. I'm used to it. My sunglasses for perfectly in their little spot. We've driven it from one end of Ohio to the other hundreds of times. To Nova Scotia twice. To the beach in NC/SC over a dozen times. To the Smoky Mountains dozens of times. Two years of two hour round trips to ballet. So many carpools with so many different friends. So many hours of music and conversations. It's just a good car and I don't want a new one quite yet. I don't need it to have anything fancy.
I love that you left your KIND bumper sticker on yours!
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Post by mnmloveli on Jun 27, 2018 20:32:48 GMT
YES ! The engine on my 2001 Chevy Trailblazer died suddenly 2 months ago. It only had 87,000 miles on it since we are not big drivers and work from home. it. I was in tears ! Loved that truck ! It never let us down.
When I called the insurance company to drop the insurance since we were junking it, they advised I had Mechanical Breakdown Coverage for 100,000 miles or the life of the vehicle. One of the last policyholders still left with this coverage. Since the engine was too expensive to fix, Geico totaled the vehicle and gave us a check for $5,000. That was a GREAT surprise.
We are now driving a 2018 Honda Pilot and loving every minute of it. Still learning all the bells & whistles. LOVE the keyless entry and start.
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Post by sharlag on Jun 27, 2018 20:40:06 GMT
I am sentimental about most of my past cars. Except for the Audi that the driver's window stopped opening.
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Post by sharlag on Jun 27, 2018 20:43:02 GMT
I still own my first car. A chevy cavalier A friend of mine fondly reminisces about a Cavalier that she once owned. |
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Post by Zee on Jun 27, 2018 20:45:13 GMT
I won't get rid of my 2005 Chrysler 300 until I have to. It's beautiful and has been a fabulous car. She and I just did 4000 miles in the past month (PA to GA and back, PA to IA and back) and turned over 100k together.
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Post by peano on Jun 27, 2018 20:46:45 GMT
Yes, the 1978 MGB (chartreuse with black convertible top) I got in HS. It was a potential death trap, and was constantly in the shop, but so fun to drive. And growing up in my hometown, that’s all there was to do. Top down, bare feet, hair flying, music blasting.
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Post by papersilly on Jun 27, 2018 20:48:42 GMT
as far as a vehicle, i loved my Lexus SC 300. it was a sporty coupe and was a great car both in and out. when it hit just past 100,000 miles, DH said it was time to get rid of it.  there was absolutely nothing wrong with it and it could have gone thousands and thousands more more miles. i've owned 3 Lexus cars and a Mercedes since then and nothing has compared to the fun i had driving that original car. |
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Post by birukitty on Jun 27, 2018 21:05:10 GMT
Yes, I love my 1999 Honda LX Civic that I've had since we bought it new. It just passed 100,000 miles (yeah, I don't drive very much) and I want to keep it until I absolutely have to give it up. It was made in Japan, has wishbone suspension (hugs the curves like crazy) and is a 5 speed manual. I much prefer a manual over an automatic. It fits me so well and has back seats that fold all the way down to make a very large trunk. It's a nice shade of green. Instead of a complicated system up front (I'm techno challenge) it's got a nice basic system with buttons and knobs (which I prefer) and a CD player (I'm a traditionalist who still owns a ton of CDs). Did I tell you I love my car?
Right now the left fender is all mangled up from an accident that happened last week when an 18 wheeler failed to stop in stop and go traffic on Rt. 50 (a five lane highway) when I merged into his lane. He told me he didn't see me or any other cars around him when he was up in his cab. Great! Then why are you on the road at all? Luckily I have great insurance. In the meantime I feel a little ache inside when I go out to the driveway every time I see it.
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Post by ilikepink on Jun 27, 2018 22:11:47 GMT
A few months ago, I traded in Sam, my 2002 explorer and it felt like I lost my right arm. My XH and I bought it in the aftermath of 9/11. All those trips to/from school and sports events. That’s the vehicle my sons learned to drive on. The trips to/from colleges. Vacations. And it brought me to my new life in a new state. And trips back north to see the boys. Sam was like my best friend. Over 200,000 miles and significant repairs and not needing all that space anymore led me to buy a new friend
It’s hard sometimes.
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Post by NoWomanNoCry on Jun 27, 2018 22:41:00 GMT
The first car I owned was a 1999 Grand AM SE in maroon. It has a factory stereo system but man that base was killer and I loved it. I have many memories in that car..good ones, bad ones...I've slept in that car when I was running from a guy beating me..It was my sanctuary as corny as that sounds. I cried when I had to get rid of it.
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Post by disneypal on Jun 27, 2018 22:56:56 GMT
I have owned 5 cars (currently on my 6th). I never was sentimental when I traded the first 4 in because I was so excited about getting a new car. But the last care I traded, I put it off and put it off until financially it didn't make sense to keep it. It was a 2003 Chevy Blazer and I had it 15 years! I loved that car, it never gave me a day of trouble (but was just getting old and about to need a lot of maintenance and replacements that would cost a lot).
I had that car in my late 30s, all through my 40s and into my early 50s. That is a lot of living. I had so many wonderful memories made while driving that car and it broke my heart to get rid of it. In fact, now, almost a year later, I still miss that car and I hope that whoever has it now is loving it and taking just as much care of it as I did. I love my new car but I sure miss that one.
It was hard to let it go, I never thought I would be emotionally attached to a car but I was to that one.
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Post by Minty118 on Jun 27, 2018 23:05:54 GMT
It is going to be extremely hard for me to give up our 1999 Grand Caravan when it dies. That van was given to me, fully paid for and with only 9000 miles on it, by my grandfather in 2002. My husband and I had just found out 8 days earlier that I was pregnant with twins and looking into buying a van when my uncle, who took care of my grandfather, passed away and my grandfather needed to go into a nursing home. Not only am I attached because of all it's been through with us, but because of how I got it.
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Post by AussieMeg on Jun 27, 2018 23:26:26 GMT
Nope, I couldn’t wait to get rid of every one of my cars because I was getting something better and newer.
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Post by KikiPea on Jun 27, 2018 23:31:24 GMT
Yes! We have a Mazda Miata that is about 6 years old, and has 74,000 miles on it, but we don't want to get rid of her because it was the car our first pup LOVED riding around in with the top down.  |
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Post by Delta Dawn on Jun 28, 2018 0:00:48 GMT
We had a 1980 Toyota Corolla that we called The Egg. It had no a/c but had a good radio and my sister drove it everywhere as she could drive standard and I couldn’t. My son wishes we had Kept The Egg.
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Post by nlwilkins on Jun 28, 2018 0:12:53 GMT
Hubby just pulled the 1985 Ford Pick Up to the SIL's so they can start to work on it. We keep vehicles until parts are no longer available. Hubby does the upkeep and repairs. When the insurance totals a vehicle, we buy it back from them. Currently we have a 2000 mustang which is hubby's main transport. It was mine until two years ago. We also have a 2005 F150 Ford. Hubby had to put a new rear end on that one two years ago. But, it is such a great vacation vehicle. When a vehicle can no longer be fixed, it becomes a storage unit for hubbies tools, etc.
So to answer your question, yes we become attached to our vehicles.
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Post by MsKnit on Jun 28, 2018 1:00:59 GMT
Definitely.
I love my 03 Escape. Hoping she sees me through another 3 years. She lost her running boards last year. Otherwise, she looks fantastic. Been garage kept her whole life and hasn’t seen enough sun to fade anything.
It’s funny, as I hated her the first 3 months we owned her. My husband forced her on me. I demanded the color I wanted. Just had no say in purchasing a car. I was angry at him and the car too.
He has been trying to get rid of her for 7 years now. Not a chance. There simply hasn’t been a vehicle I like well enough that makes me willing to give her up.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2018 1:48:37 GMT
Nope, never felt attached to a car. I've driven rentals that made me decide they're on my "never" list but have yet to miss an old car.
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Post by Kate * on Jun 28, 2018 2:02:07 GMT
Yep, felt exactly as Monklady when I donated Goldie, our '99 Odyssey to Humane Society. 17 years of memories, so sad to see them roll away on the back of a flatbed truck.
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Post by kbb7091 on Jun 28, 2018 2:07:13 GMT
Yes! I feel as if I was meant to see this. Today I said goodbye to my 2008 Honda Odyssey:  It was time for it to go--too many repairs, and I've since downsized to an Accord, but it was hard to see it go. It took my kids to multiple swim meets, summer vacations, and moved my oldest into college. Lots of memories went through my mind as I watched it leave. |
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I could have had it back for $150 but then would have had to put an engine in it and fix the damage he did when he ran it off the road.
there was absolutely nothing wrong with it and it could have gone thousands and thousands more more miles. i've owned 3 Lexus cars and a Mercedes since then and nothing has compared to the fun i had driving that original car. 
