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Originally Posted by DieselAddict
Good point, but a Burb IMO is too gas-guzzling to EVER drive to the office or grocery store, even as a secondary vehicle.
If the junkyards paid me enough to cover my costs and then some, I'd do it.
You don't have to do any of those things in your Excursion. That's your choice and the kind of wasteful fuel expenditure that I'm talking about.
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So what do you suggest they do until the primary vehicle gets back? I suppose I shouldn't go to work because the car we drive together is being taken to another part of the state? I wish I could sit at home but the circumstances dictate otherwise.
Oh, I thought you were going to sacrifice yourself for the common good like you are keeping the E300 otherwise somebody else will make it a primary vehicle.
You going to haul my dogs to the dog park when I want to? You going to haul my RV when I want to go on vacation? You going to haul my ATVs when I want to ride them? Haul my boat to the lakes? Would you have driven me from Madison to Milwaukee (75 miles one way) for work? You sign a contract that pledges that you will do for me all my Excursion can do and I'll even sell it. Hell, if you did that, I could give up the florist and newspaper runs. Or was it your intention that to be less wasteful, I deprive myself of all my leisure activities?
Put it another way, if I didn't have to drive that brute, I wouldn't. However, until I can find a vehicle that will do all that it does and costs less, I don't have much of a choice. Yes, it is a all around thing therefore it isn't good at any one thing. To replace the Ex, I'd have to have a truck to haul, a station wagon to take the dogs and a car to do short errands and find someway to pay for the 3 vehicles and their maintenance and insurance. Then I'd have to build a bigger garage since I can't leave it sit on the lawn (another payment). So yes, the Ex is the cheapest I could find that would do all that. So sometimes, I have to put up with the fact that it isn't good with the Big Mac Runs.