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Different strokes for different folks I guess. I tend to keep my vehicles a long time. My main road bike I bought in 1988. Had to to tear the engine down (it swallowed a carb butterfly screw) a couple of years ago. Senior mechanic at the shop commented on how it looked brand new inside. I credit the care I take with the oil changes I give it.
I treat my equipment and vehicles pretty equally. How I much paid for them or how much they might be currently worth don't figure into it. I look at how reliable I can make and keep them for the time I want them to keeping work for me with as little hassle as possible. Years and years of observing how other people often bring mechanical trouble upon themselves by not bothering to do proper maintenance or wanting to spend the money has made me not want to travel that path.
I seriously don't like spending the money on the fairly expensive oil changes on my wife's car but that's part of what it takes to keep it dead reliable and so be it.
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