...these cars are expensive to maintain without a warranty...when things break randomly, especially consecutively without reason, you are shocked by the high price of fixing them...but note that these cars were expensive when new...you may have gotten a good bargain when buying it used, but that is not going to make any difference when all of these cars go into the shop...I had a period of constant problems with my car...and I was quite upset like you...but I bought the car new and the car has relatively low mileage so I just did not want to sell it...the car has relatively settled down now...and I am hoping it will remain this way for a while...

I know a lot of people who buy new cars on leases...drive it for a few years with warranty, and then part with it and drive the next newest craze...it is another way of living...you have to swallow the lease payments though, but you typically don't need to deal with a lot of the headaches and random breakdowns associated with older cars...not saying that new cars don't have problems, but I am guessing they may be less and may be dealt with better by the dealership since it is under warranty...

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