A lot to be said for an old truck

[fabsroman]

If it runs, keep it. I just got rid of my wife's 2002 Hyundai Sonata POS with 143,000 miles on it because it had a leaking heater core (which I tried to repair but threw the towel in on after 6 hours), a leaking power steering pump, an exhaust pipe that was about to fall off, and I needed to do a timing belt change on it too since the plastic belt had never been changed and its replacement interval was 60,000 miles. Meanwhile, the 1998 Ford Taurus has 220,000 miles on it.

We replaced the Sonata with a Ford Focus and I am hoping to get 15 to 20 years out of that car. we took advantage of the $3,000 cash back from Ford and they gave us $750 for the Sonata in pieces. Buying a new car is a waste of money as far as I am concerned unless it is going to be a collector's item.

In my book, the Sonata was a failure, and I am somewhat pissed at myself and the engineers of the car for the issue with the heater core. Nothing should be that freaking difficult to repair.

Keep the 4Runner until it doesn't go anymore.