you won’t know til you’ve tried
May 9th, 2006Anyone who knows me can tell you I’m addicted to my phone. Taking calls 24/7 or pictures of the one paragraph in your average car magazine worth reading, my phone gets more use than most. So when it failed last Friday I was understanding; we’d been through a lot and it had given me good service…
What I didn’t realize until I got an identical replacement phone was how badly I needed a new one. Apparently the speaker, the headset port and the battery were barely functioning but I’d accepted their performance as normal because the degredation happened over time.
And so it goes with tires, wiper blades, air filters and especially shock absorbers (the old bounce test or visual inspection doesn’t work anymore now that shocks are gas pressurized rather than simply hydraulic). If you have any doubt, replace ‘em with the same or higher quality and you’ll see what you’ve been missing. Come to think of it this applies to significant others too…
But I digress… If you’re considering a used car, factor in how much it would cost to replace these items or have the seller include them in the deal.