Cavatt
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Did they check for oil in the coolant? With a bad head gasket, oil will contaminate the coolant alot of times.
I feel like if you spend 30k on a car and want it to last 15-20 years, you are going from a new car to a decent used car to a POS at some point. I would rather spend 10k on a car have a decent used car for a while then do the same thing 8-10 years down the road when it becomes a POS.
I 100% support this contention. A 10k used car is really nice. You can even get a few years old luxury car for that price. I feel like I have less information on a brand new car. For one thing you don't know if the one you got just has gremlins in it. For another, it takes 5 years for people to realize if a new model year is any good or not. A 5 year old car you can almost diagnose with googles searches on common things to go wrong with your car. Personally, I think a certified used car from a dealer is a much much better deal than buying a new car. They have usually had everything inspected and fixed, and they are also usually not lemons because they are trade ins of people buying a new car to get a new car instead of someone trying to get rid of an old car. A lot of times it is the just the older version of the car they are getting new.
Buying a new car is for suckers unless you just have the cash laying around and you don't have to sacrifice anything for it. If you are rich and you want to impress people go for it. If you don't care about cars, it is the easiest way to waste money IMO.
In my experience, the CRV sucks. It is one of the few Honda's that suck. Maybe it wasn't designed by the same people as the accord and civic or whatever.
Also in my experience a Toyota Camry is the most reliable car of all time. It just works everything works and everything is super durable. I know more poor people driving those cars for 20 years, doing no maintenance, loving their car, and they just won't stop.