re: OT mechanics: Vehicle reliability - Mileage vs Age

At some point you’ll get to a place of random sensor failure. As long as you are Ok replacing the little stuff you can keep a vehicle on the road forever.

For me, the issues are a mixed bag. With high mileage, you’ll run into “hard” mechanical issues such as tie rod ends and so on. With age you get into sensor failures.

Both are easy to overcome if you are pretty handy. My wife had a 04 trailblazer she absolutely loved. I offered to buy her a new car, she said she didn’t want one. So I “zero houred” her trailblazer. I changed out everything I thought may need repair for the next 100k miles. I put in leather seats, new carpet, etc. It was like brand new. I think my total cost was like 3500 dollars. She drove it another 125k miles.

I sold it to my BIL for my niece to drive. She wrecked it.