Memory is faulty.
Seeing as the old girl has breasted 200,000kms, I thought now would be a good time to do a recap on how things have gone.
I checked the file.
BTW, PG2 was right (yeah pretty rare I know) I used Postimage for this image and I hit the bit where it says do not resize and it seems it is much more betterer. Certainly no barbed wires lines running all over the pic.
I bought the car on 3 May 2016 with 177,636 kms for $5,500
From memory I would have said 2015 @ 150,000kms
In reality I have owned the car for 4 years and I have covered roughly 23,000 kms.
Youse wanna know what it has cost me since?
From memory it has been rather cheap to run with no real problems - the reality is something quite different:
Fuel $5,175 (23,000kms at 15l/100kms at a cost of $1.50 a litre)
Servicing $1,686
Tyres $1057
Rego $1,878 (rego was free in NSW, then I moved to Qld
)
Stereo $720
Total running costs
$10,516
Or looking at it another way: $2,600 a year or $0.45 per kilometre
So what about future liabilities?
The car is mechanically sound with up to date service and good tyres.
There is no rust.
The carport shows a few minor oil drops coming from the front of the motor and from the rear as well.
Service is due in Sep $250
Rego is due in Nov $939
The car had a full transmission flush in 2016 and I will probably get a transmission service soon $200?
A/C was also serviced in 2016 and it is really cold, so I won't bother with a service yet.
Cost benefit analysis....
I love this car and it puts a smile on my face every time I drive it.
Fordomatic has driven it and he lusts after it but I won't sell it to him, but I'd swap his XR6 for it.
It serves as a backup car to the Territory which is about to go for smash repairs for a couple of weeks.
Lemme tell you about the stereo.
The Fairlane has 9 speakers. I replaced the headunit with a Sony
I also replaced the front speakers - the tweeters in the A pillars and the 6" speakers in the front. The rear door speakers and the rear parcel shelf speakers plus the sub originals were retained. I also had the cable inserted so that the steering wheel audio controls work.
Even clips taken off Youtube and converted to MP3 and played on a USB can sound really great with that bass boost.
The sound is sensational, even on non-country music tunes.
My wife also likes driving the car so I have a devil of a time keeping her out of it.
I keep reminding her that her car is the Ford Territory.
It makes no sense to sell the car for the current market value of about $3,000 and get into a smaller more fuel-efficient car. And besides, Scomo's $750 stimulus package to pensioners doesn't go very far.
This is how the car looked when I bought it, pic taken in Chew-Mit
And now in Yap-Hoon
All overs over $7,500 will be considered.
Did I tell youse that this car is a chick magnet?