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Originally Posted by Johnhef
If she whines, tell her too bad she should have spent $20 on oil changes every three months if she wanted to get $2500 for it. No excuse to let a car go that long.
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Well, the problem is, most quick change places won't touch that car, and oil changes are more like 50-100$...I was at a MB dealer where an independent mechanic was buying a bushel basket of engine parts for a later S500. The story was, the owner of the car bought it off-lease (not his lease), and the engine blew up (oil-related valve train failure) a month later. The first thing he had done was an oil change, and the oil SEEMED clean...
The mechanic told me that it is fairly common for people who really can't afford these cars to lease them, and they assume that maintenance would be minimal (or none at all, its under warranty for a while, and a Merc to boot) or cost what a Chevy costs. When they find out the truth, they put oil in when it gets low (automatic oil change system), and pray that the car doesn't blow up until after the lease is up and they turn it in. In this case, the lessee won this gamble, and the new owner got it sideways.