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You could switch to a small cheap sedan
It's a gamble to get a used car you know nothing about when you have a truck you know is at least a bit reliable. My family grew up playing used car roulette and it's pretty damn hard to come out ahead in this scenario. Best to run the thing until it dies while saving up for a new or like new vehicle.
Picking the right used car is important, my 2008 civic I got in 2018 is still chugging
Makes completely sense to drive your car to the tomb. I live in Europe and try my best to dodge European cars. I've been lucky with my used Prius since 2014, aiming at keeping it as long as possible
Learn about cars first and it isn't a gamble.
I know a ton about cars, but short of taking the motor apart there's only so much you can glean from a drive and quick once over.
Then you don't know cars as well as you say you do, because you can check for a whole lot more than that without pulling the engine lmao. Maybe stick to the dealership if you don't feel like you can effectively evaluate it's condition.
Switching costs money. From what he said money might be tight. I buy and sell my own vehicles. It is a job. Most prefer to give up a few grand to not have to do it (you never get paid full market value on a trade in). Even if someone decided to do it themselves they run the risk of losing big time if they're inexperienced. Even though I've been doing it for years even I lose on some of these. When I lose, it's usually close to the cost of the vehicle. I can afford that and in the end I average out really well.But the majority of people can't do that. I get all the hate new big trucks get and I agree. As someone who works in construction I wish station wagons would make a come back. But it's really easy to say "just do x y or z" it's not so easy to do.
I get your feeling. It's a shame the market is built so that people buy more and more useless guga-trucks while most people would do perfectly well with a small family car.