Yeah, my DD's get boring after 18months or so, but I grind it out another year or 2. I'm at 3 1/2 on my Saturn, and plan to grit my teeth for at least another year. Same story as yours, reliable, good MPG, just bored with it. Just feel like I'm wasting money replacing it.
Its hitting hard again. Spent the weekend at a friends farm for a party. Surrounded with lifted Wranglers, diesel trucks, lifted trucks and i putz in with my lil Saturn.
Great car just everything else looks like such a cooler ride.
Was even worse when i actually drove a lifted wrangler. ugh. want bad. but not practical right now.
This sucks. Always happens too.
rant off
I went through those phases with the Elantra (that we just traded in). After 10 years, it had provided so much dependable, reliable transportation that is was sad to see it go. I loathed it in the beginning, then I turned it inot an auto-x'er, then I loathed how slow it was at that, then I daily'd it and autox'd something else and loved it, used it for short vacations (500-1000 miles one way) and it filled that role beautifully. Then I got tired of repairing a 10 year old car..... it got to the point that cancer was growing rapidly, it needed $1000 in maintenance and I found a great deal.
So.... I have nothing to give to help here. I realize I am talking in circles and not really giving any advice....
A lifted Wrangler has to be the single worst vehicle to drive on a road. To each his own, but I would seriously rather drive just about anything else. Except maybe an automatic base Cavalier.
(does that help at all? ;-)
As was said much earlier in this thread, I think you're describing 95% of the people on this board. No matter how much I like a car, or how practical it is, I always have the itch for something different. I've had my Volvo, which is my dd, for 1.5 years now. Put 30k miles on it. Very practical for my needs, owes me nothing, comfy, etc...I'm actually very happy with the car. But I'd be lying if I said I wasn't always looking at CL or whatever and pondering ideas.
If it's time to move on, it's financially feasable and will fit into your lifestyle, then move on.
dculberson wrote: A lifted Wrangler has to be the single worst vehicle to drive on a road. To each his own, but I would seriously rather drive just about anything else. Except maybe an automatic base Cavalier. (does that help at all? ;-)
^This. If I had places to go off roading I'd love to have an old one to play with. But for daily use on the streets? No thanks. I'd even take the automatic base Cavalier for a DD over a lifted Wrangler.
trucks too though. just called about a silverado 1500 and a gmc 1500.
Need? ehhh maybe?
Want...yes
I loved driving my lifted wrangler around town. On the highway it wasn't fantastic but not too bad.
Your Saturn gets great gas mileage and is probably even fun to drive. I only drive my full size truck when I HAVE to. There's nothing at all fun about those lumbering hunks of iron. Lifting it makes it worse. It being diesel makes it slower, louder, heavier, and worse.
I'm just trying to help. :-)
i was thinkin 1500 single cab or ext. short bed. Just a small truck like that.
or s10 or tacoma thing.
Nothin huge
Miata?
EvanB wrote: Lifted Miata?
Fixed.
Mrs. Oldtin got rid of her lifted wrangler. Looked like a very cool ride. Fun with the top off - the wrangler too. But ultimately, it was too focused of a vehicle for every day use.
No help on the ADD. I have 6 or 7 vehicles laying around.
CarKid1989 wrote: Any insight? thats the responsible and adult thing to do right? It makes sense to keep a car that has nothing wrong it even if its a bit dull. Right?
Take this advice from someone who's been dealing with it for 35 years. Start looking for a replacement. When it's time, it's time. We're car guys, it's what we do. Don't try to fight it. You've already made up your mind, you're just trying to justify it. Just do it.
I have a Swift GT that's clean, fast, and doesn't owe me anything. I bought it's replacement today.
mguar wrote: In reply to CarKid1989: Leave it there and do something else.. Build yourself a Locost, or a boat.. Restore an old 1930 Ford or build a jet engined dragster.. Decent, reliable, transportation is a blessing boring or not.. It takes at least a decade to appreciate reliability
^ wisdom, learn from it. Having a reliable DD is a blessing. Figure out how to manage a project on top of that whether it be money or space or time, but keep the reliable car and have a project to fill the ADD needs
Definitely keep a boring DD and have your projects on the side. It's a much better long term solution. That's why I keep my old boring paid for rock reliable Trooper. If I had to depend on 'project cars' now as I have in the past for transportation needs, or cough up ~$300-$500 a month for a 'dependable new car', I would be in a less secure position where my house is concerned.
I am feeling the same way since I paid off my MZ3. The coffee shop I stop at once in a while on the way to work always has a cool car or two out front. Today it was a Maserati Gran Turismo. 3 weeks ago it was a pristine Porsche 356 convertible. Often, I see a late model 911, not sure if it's a 996 or 997. My guess is the latter.
Fortunately, there isn't ever anything there that's both cool and affordable for me. Otherwise I'd be in real trouble.
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