Rock Auto repair index

What has the lowest repair index on Rock Auto?

The lowest I've found so far is a 1979 Fiat X1/9. It is 99% the cost of a 1998 DOHC Dodge Neon.

No idea what you're talking about. Have a link and explanation?

I had never noticed it either. It was referenced on the "Viper grassroots?" thread.

http://www.rockauto.com/repairindex/

I was entertained for a few minutes plugging in different vehicles.

Apparently a 2003 Crown Vic costs 139% of a 1973 Javelin.

Wow, our Grand Prix is supposedly only 57% of the cost of the Mazda5!!

Where's that berking Geo Metro thread where everybody kept saying it was cheaper than a P71 to maintain?!?!?

Cheaper than a crown vic!! Plus thats pretty efficient maintenance per liter Though I bet performance is a different story there haha.

This is true I have both cars.

That's surprising. The Super Coupe is cheaper than the F350. I assumed the opposite.

Edit: It's cheaper than any other car I own.

While this is super cool, it's a parts cost index, not a 'likelihood to need parts' index. Case in point:

parker wrote: What has the lowest repair index on Rock Auto? The lowest I've found so far is a 1979 Fiat X1/9. It is 99% the cost of a 1998 DOHC Dodge Neon.

I've found one cheaper. I used to own a '73 808 - dirt cheap parts for the ones you can find. 72% of the Fiat.

Parts for the 1979 FIAT X-1/9 1.5L cost 1.39 times the cost of parts for a 1973 MAZDA 808 1.6L

In reply to Tyler H:

Bwahah!!! So true...

I compared my '07 Accent to my '96 Miata, it said the Accent parts are only 85% of the Miata parts. I presume that's stock-equivallent parts, not performance ones.

According to RockAuto my '83 VW Rabbit GTI is only 73% of your baseline '79 Fiat X1/9 parts cost. Towards the opposite end of the spectrum, my 2000 Range Rover runs a whopping 271% of the Fiat's cost. Sounds legit.

The 2002 E39 M5 isn't so hot. 234% of the Fiat. But it's at least 300% more car.

The 1966 Land Rover is....insufficient data. That means that Land Rover owners are too cheap to buy parts, they just take the least worn part out of a parts vehicle and put the old one on a shelf until it is less worn than the part that replaced it.

A 1973 Mercedes 280 is 91% of a 1996 Miata. That should make my friend Eric happy.

parker wrote: What has the lowest repair index on Rock Auto? The lowest I've found so far is a 1979 Fiat X1/9. It is 99% the cost of a 1998 DOHC Dodge Neon.

Well, since i recently made a post about how ridiculously cheap a dodge shadow is to maintain on Rockauto, here you go:

2000 Jeep Cherokee is only 106% of the Fiat.

1990 Mazda MX6 GT Turbo is only 105% of the Fiat.

1993 Miata is only 101% of the Fiat.

1988 Mazda MX6 GT is 87% of the fiat. BOOYAH!

2004 Mazdaspeed Miata is 142% of the Fiat.

1993 Ford Escort GT is 83% of the Fiat. BOOYAH!!!

My average is 104.8% of the Fiat. So basically my fleet is like maintaining 6 Fiat X1/9s at once. yay.

Javelin wrote: Where's that berking Geo Metro thread where everybody kept saying it was cheaper than a P71 to maintain?!?!?

As I recall, it was cheaper to operate, not cheaper to maintain.

The fiat is 96% of the 2000 Jetta Diesel :)

Only in the GRM forum does a 40-year-old Italian car represent a standard of parts prices

AHAHAHA, NO.

The sensible car in my fleet is not the sensible car in my fleet.

That's pretty interesting and could be a handy tool for future purchases..

This one surprised me.

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