When Do You Fish or Cut Bait?

I am in the keep the Golf camp. Drive it until the rust makes it dangerous, then get something else. Start saving now. Use the lack of AC and other discomforts to motivate you to save what you can.

Well for those that may be interested, after looking in the local used market:

• I bought a set of Continental TrueContact tires for the Golf for just under $600 mounted
• I had the AC fixed - took it to a local VW specialist and it cost approx $600 for a new Compressor clutch.
• The exhaust is holding together witha bout $10 worth of clamps and a reducer.
• I am going to get a can of POR15 and get after the rust,
• The car is averaging 36.1 MPG (imperial) over the approx. 20k miles I have tracked it.

Happy I kept it.

I finally cut bait with my WRX after 170k miles. Loved the car but after a decade of hard driving it was just nickle-and-diming me to death and throwing emissions codes I couldn't solve (and we have emissions inspections here annually). So a day before my inspection was due I unloaded it and got something new. I had planned to go another year or two in this car but it just got to be too clunky and too much work. I like working on my project cars, not my daily driver.....

irish44j said:

I finally cut bait with my WRX after 170k miles. Loved the car but after a decade of hard driving it was just nickle-and-diming me to death and throwing emissions codes I couldn't solve (and we have emissions inspections here annually). So a day before my inspection was due I unloaded it and got something new. I had planned to go another year or two in this car but it just got to be too clunky and too much work. I like working on my project cars, not my daily driver.....

I saw the GTi thread .  . . . . . Nice.