In 2000, we bought our daughter’s 1993 Toyota base pickup truck from her: 130K miles, no A/C, P/S, or much of anything else. She had named it Tucker, after a boyfriend who later fell by the wayside, but the name stuck.
In the next 20 or so years, we put a mere 100k (but harder) miles on it.
Then, on her [age deleted
] birthday earlier this year, we gave it back to her. The family had, upon retiring from the Army, moved to N.C. and they need a truck.
Nice, but it then left us without a tow vehicle for the MC-10 motorcycle trailer I had bought a couple of years ago.
Hmmmmm. Who wouldn’t want an excuse to buy another truck? Actually, I don’t need a larger carbon footprint — or all the costs and taxes that come with it.
So, we just bought a new Honda Fit, but installing a trailer hitch voids the warranty. Ah, but we kept our 2009 Fit, a C-130 of little cars. It has 260K+ miles, but still runs great. Sure don't care about the warranty!
An (unofficial) Fit forum —
https://www.fitfreak.net/forums/ — had (surprise) lots of mixed views on the risks/benefits scale. Some "doom & gloom & you’re going to die" and some “they do it in Europe and Asia; you’ll be fine.”
I went with Door 2.
Bill
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