I mean experts early in 2021 were suggesting we had excess supply to run the country well into 2023.

An excess supply suggests prices should fall, not climb steadily for 2 years......

But of course everyone forgets that little tidbit. Much like everyone forgets Biden stripped the price protections keeping this from…

Yet experts suggested we had over 2 years of excess supply going into 2021 and we should see falling fuel prices due to excess demand well into 2023, what happened to that?

You mean like the ones Biden stripped as his first act in office so he could try to play savior later?

Eh environmental and human cost of “big electric” isn’t the savior you’ve been sold on.

But of course the millions who will be put further into poverty over our govt’s push for electrification don’t actually matter to anyone.

You know, who cares if those who keep the country going can afford to live their lives so long…

Cry me a river.

Everyone rejoice, prices are still $2/gallon higher than they should be, but nevermind that little point.....

Simple/obvious answer here:

Fix the 500 and stop neglecting it. Like most “FCA” vehicles, they’re as good as the guy maintaining them. You take care of them, they’ll go 2-3-400k miles trouble free. You treat them like the average idiot, they’ll be junk under 100k.

If this kid managed to wreck a transmission on an…

I think the issue here lies in “Distracted Driving” makes up over 20% of all crashes vs “Speeding” only making up a very small subset under 5%.

Mileage means little on these vans, maintenance is key.

You could easily buy one with 1/2 the miles that needs an engine and a transmission in the first month you own it thanks to the PO’s treatment. Now you have the extra payment + extra repairs and are far worse off than you were originally. A thing that I’ve seen…

1. Most shops offer loaner vehicles these days and even a $5k repair is cheaper than a year of $500 payments.
If lump sum is the problem, there’s personal loans, if you can get a $40k vehicle loan, you can get a $5k personal loan. My local lender will do so at only 1.2% higher interest than a vehicle loan. Over a year…

All the while the new truck will cost more to insure, more for the parts it needs, and will tend to have more issues due to the added electronics.

Rust is the single thing that will make me retire a vehicle, specifically structural rust.

These same people don’t realize personal loans exist......

$1500 is the going rate for anything that half runs these days.

$1500 for a track toy that you slap a new transmission in and beat the living hell out of on weekends is a hell of a deal.

There are these things called “test drives” where you can take a vehicle out for a drive and test/inspect all it’s features before buying it, you should try it sometime.

I daily drove this for over a year:

In it’s defense you shouldn’t be loading things that high in the rear anyway.

I only buy vehicles that have exactly what I want. I don’t settle for paying more for features I don’t want, I don’t settle for a vehicle that lacks features, so in turn none of my vehicles have features that frustrate me.

Well played.

All these objective things yet:

No one touched on the terrible transmissions in the Odysseys that were basically a 60k replacement item?