# How do you decide when it's time to get rid of your vehicle?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-decide-when-its-time-to-get-rid-of-your-vehicle/1021864>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 8, 2025, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-decide-when-its-time-to-get-rid-of-your-vehicle/1021864 "2025-08-08T14:46:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2025, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-decide-when-its-time-to-get-rid-of-your-vehicle/1021864/61 "2025-08-17T21:55:48Z")

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I replaced my 14 year old Saturn with over 150K miles when the mechanic said fixing it was not worth it. I replaced my next car, a Prius, after ten years when the repair estimate was well over the value of the car. But I think I could have gotten it fixed for less, but getting a new car was worth it for the safety features which are far more important to me as I age. I’ve never needed automatic braking, but I’m glad it’s there.

Mileage is not going to be an issue ever, since I no longer commute.

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**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2025, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-decide-when-its-time-to-get-rid-of-your-vehicle/1021864/62 "2025-10-03T22:14:55Z")

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Our older car, a 2006 Honda CRV which we bought in October 2006, has 186K miles on it, It just needed about 1500 dollars in brake work. I don’t know if the car is worth that much - but otherwise it’s been okay. Next really big bill though….. hopefully it’ll last another year or so, as we have about that long on the loan on our “new” car.

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**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2025, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-decide-when-its-time-to-get-rid-of-your-vehicle/1021864/63 "2025-10-04T20:11:48Z")

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Get rid of a vehicle?? I don’t think I understand the question.

People ask why I have 22 cars. I tell them its because I haven’t got the 23rd one yet.

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