I need massive feedback from long-time cargo van d
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RE: I need massive feedback from long-time cargo v
They way I look at it is, which will cost more over the course of time, a car or truck payment, or the maintenance to keep it on the road?
You can put $3000-$4000 a year in maintenance and that's still way less than the annual payments on a new one. Of course, with a commercial vehicle that makes you money, you don't want to be out of service every other week fixing this or that as it breaks. If you have an older vehicle where things are starting to go bad with it, instead of dumping it for a much more expensive newer one, go out of service for a week and have them fix stuff that hasn't yet, but will, go bad. All the other parts that haven't yet gone bad are the same age, so you know they're gonna break sooner or later. Better to replace them now than when under a load.
If one hose goes bad, just replace them all. Hell, replace the belts, too, while yer at it. They're old, too.
Timing chain goes bad, then the fuel pump, then the radiator springs a leak, then the u joint goes. Welp, starting to get a lot in maintenance, better get a new vehicle. Yep, let's trade $3000 in maintenance for a $7000 car payment. Makes perfect sense to me. (yuk yuk)
They way I look at it is, which will cost more over the course of time, a car or truck payment, or the maintenance to keep it on the road?
You can put $3000-$4000 a year in maintenance and that's still way less than the annual payments on a new one. Of course, with a commercial vehicle that makes you money, you don't want to be out of service every other week fixing this or that as it breaks. If you have an older vehicle where things are starting to go bad with it, instead of dumping it for a much more expensive newer one, go out of service for a week and have them fix stuff that hasn't yet, but will, go bad. All the other parts that haven't yet gone bad are the same age, so you know they're gonna break sooner or later. Better to replace them now than when under a load.
If one hose goes bad, just replace them all. Hell, replace the belts, too, while yer at it. They're old, too.
Timing chain goes bad, then the fuel pump, then the radiator springs a leak, then the u joint goes. Welp, starting to get a lot in maintenance, better get a new vehicle. Yep, let's trade $3000 in maintenance for a $7000 car payment. Makes perfect sense to me. (yuk yuk)