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sell Tires at Cost with an install package that includes:
Tire mounting & valve stems, free lifetime balancing, free
lifetime rotations, free lifetime flat repairs, free
alignment check, and free one year road hazard package.
What’s hard is planning for unexpected sedan repairs.
The truth is that our vehicles can stay on our Northeast Ohio roads longer than ever before with proper maintenance. That’s because of improved vehicle design and manufacturing quality. But some of those same improvements also lead to higher repairs costs for every sedan or vehicle.
There’s a tool that can be found on Edmunds.com that you can use to prepare your veichle repair budget.
Let’s suppose you have a used Toyota Camry – a very popular car in the Cleveland area…
It’s now paid for and you’d like to keep it running for the next three years. You can go to Edmunds’ True Cost to Own calculator and enter your vehicle’s data. The calculator will provide estimates of what it’ll cost to service and repair your vehicle in Northeast Ohio over the next five years. The estimate’s based on where you live in Ohio, manufacturers’ recommendations and repair experience for your particular model.
Of course these are just estimates –
there’s no way to predict what’ll actually happen to the car in
your driveway, but it’s a good starting point. The calculator
also has estimates for depreciation, financing,
insurance, OH taxes and fuel costs.
Let’s focus on maintenance and repair in Cleveland and
surrounding Northeast Ohio areas: This table at
Edmonds.com shows that the average monthly cost of maintenance
and repairs for our example in Northeast Ohio is about eighty-three dollars.
That may sound like a lot, but compare it to a new car payment.
So if you set aside eighty-three dollars a month, you’d go a long ways towards taking care of routine maintenance and being prepared for the unexpected repairs that arise.
Some folks in the Cleveland area are afraid of what can go wrong with their older car so they buy a new one. That’s fine if you really want a new car, but if you properly maintain your older vehicle, you’ll save a lot of money on new car payments and insurance. It just makes good economic sense when times are tight in Northeast Ohio.
Give us a call for additional advice on how to keep your sedan running on a budget.
