How Long Does a Car Last? Meet Your 'forever Car'

Here's an email from a long time customer. They are about to buy a brand new car. And they want to keep it 'forever.' Well, what is that going to take to keep it forever? It's no longer about just changing oil. Modern cars today require inspections and evaluations of every system. Here we have a mid 2000's F-150 and the owner should get a couple of hundred thousand miles out of it with regular maintenance. Your manufacturer and owners manual has a laundry list of things that every Woodstock GA auto repair shop should be looking at when you go into your service. Let me show you what we got. This is a 40 year old british sports car manufactured by Triumph. Now they have been out of business since 1981. This vehicle has 300,000 miles on it. But this car is driven on a regular basis and is down from North Carolina on a business trip. So it's not about changing out 5 quarts of oil. It's about checking all of the systems in your car. How long should my car last? Let me ask you a question. If you find a car and the owner has every record of every maintenance repair they ever done, are you going to be excited about buying that car? Absolutely! You know how well it was maintained. So if you have a car, keep your own records. And when you get ready to trade it in or sell it, you're going to get more money for it.