See if you can find a copy of the first Car Talk, by Click & Clack, the Tappett Brothers (actually Tom & Ray Magliozzi). It should have been first published in the late 80's or early 90's. I owned a copy before I bought my house - I may still, but haven't the faintest idea where it is.
High points I remember:
First - average annual maintenance levels out. Sounds like you're at about the point where they'd expect that. At the time, original warranties were two years / 20,000 miles, and they said any modern car from a first-world country was good for 100,000 miles easy, usually 150,000 and frequently 200,000. I'd assume those numbers have only gone up in the past 20 years, since you can now commonly get 5 year / 50,000 mile original warranties.
Second - whenever anything breaks, fix it right away, no matter how trivial. It's the trivial broken things that don't get fixed that drive us to buy new cars.
Third - fool yourself. When you're going "I really want a new car" - take it to your mechanic and have him fix everything. Then take it to a paint shop, and have them give it a full paint job in a different color, and clean the insides, refurbish everything. They may even have something that will give it the new car smell for a while.
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High points I remember:
First - average annual maintenance levels out. Sounds like you're at about the point where they'd expect that. At the time, original warranties were two years / 20,000 miles, and they said any modern car from a first-world country was good for 100,000 miles easy, usually 150,000 and frequently 200,000. I'd assume those numbers have only gone up in the past 20 years, since you can now commonly get 5 year / 50,000 mile original warranties.
Second - whenever anything breaks, fix it right away, no matter how trivial. It's the trivial broken things that don't get fixed that drive us to buy new cars.
Third - fool yourself. When you're going "I really want a new car" - take it to your mechanic and have him fix everything. Then take it to a paint shop, and have them give it a full paint job in a different color, and clean the insides, refurbish everything. They may even have something that will give it the new car smell for a while.