Just on GoA. 
Although in fairness, I’ve been looking at car stuff a bunch lately. Not on the market until I pay my current one down more, but just looking to see what’s out there.
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Better off buying a new Honda or Toyota and driving it forever. Mine have had essentially no reliability problems at all, and no significant expenses other than windshield wipers, oil & filter changes, and occasional maintenance. New tires every 70,000 miles or so. New brakes at maybe 10-12 years. No major hassles.
By buying new you will know that the car has been well cared for its whole life.
I agree with buy new and drive forever. Not sure I would limit it to Honda and Toyota as I think there are good and bad models by all manufacturers. My Honda Pilot wins hands down as requiring the most repairs per year of ownership compared to my “American” made experiences that I owned twice as long.
I could never get 70k on a set of tires though. That seems like it would take a lot of highway miles to come close. I am replacing tires, rotors, and brakes in half that almost every time.
Hmmm… I can’t recall now… maybe it was more frequent than that. Current car is close to 60,000 with the tires it came with. Maybe I should check the tread.
Yeah, there are other reliable brands, but Hondas & Toyotas tend to be pretty good.
I hate the car I have bc of the rushed nature of buying it right away when the old one’s engine died. But I want to be smart about the next purchase, so hopefully this one will hold up long enough for me to at a minimum pay it down until what I owe <= what it’s worth.
My brother/SIL, BIL’s husband, and Jaspess all have Subies. I do like the safety features on those.
We got extremely lucky. My wife’s car got flooded and insurance paid us more than what we owed on it. Got a two year newer model at the same payment we had.
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Tires have a treadwear rating, a number that’s usually in the 300-800 range. A lot of factors affect tire life so it is hard to say that a tire rated at 600 will last xx thousand miles. But it’s something.
I had a BMW with really soft, sticky tires that lasted like 20k miles. My wife’s van has some tires on now that had a 700+ rating and they must have 60k on them and I think they have one winter left before we replace them.
Plus climate, how hard you drive, how much the car weighs, etc influence tire life.
Why popcorn? Nothing else to see here…
Huh, I hadn’t considered that garaging the car might improve tire life, but I guess that’s not shocking. The temperature swings in the garage are a lot less than outside, plus it’s largely shielded from weather.
The car got caught in a flash flood in a rain storm. Driving down the road, water was low then it wasn’t; creek overflowed it’s banks in an instant. Next think ya know, she’s floating down the road. Water all in the engine. Car was totaled.
Car insurance is for risk averse people! 
Treadwear rating is a good relative measure of how long a tire should last, but like you said it depends on many factors.
I found this article with a distribution of treadwear ratings.
Like your BMW, I had a sports car with sticky tires that I think usually needed replacement around 30k. I’ve had tires last more than 60k. I replaced my last set somewhere in the 40-45k range.
Didn’t we have a thread for covid memes? …or was it just the general “funny/sfw” thread?
Not that I recall
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Is memory loss a symptom of Covid?
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For long Covid, yes, but most eventually get over that.
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Is it really insomnia if it’s due to poor choices?
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Is life more, less, or the same amount of enjoyable without a modicum of suffering?
Is the weekend as enjoyable without the work week? Is the first day of warm spring as lovely without a cold winter? Is a nap as enjoyable without exhaustion?
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