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<blockquote data-quote="Parks 788" data-source="post: 3591982" data-attributes="member: 14646"><p>I&#039;m not going to disagree with your comment.&nbsp; However, when the OP mentioned he had a family of 5+ going on a raod trip for 10 days and traveling thousands of miles and spending thousands of dollars on hotels, rental homes/cabins, food, entertainment, and other costs you don&#039;t really want to be putting all these cost and expenditures on the line trying to make this trip happen in an 18 year old SUV.&nbsp; You&#039;re asking for a ruined trip.&nbsp; This doesn&#039;t account for the thousands of dollars spent throughout the year on trying to keep said vehicle on the road and hoping it will turnover each morning to get to work.&nbsp; if you drop $5K-$12K on the powertrain to make it reliable that&#039;s fine but you are sill driving around in an 18 year old interior, body and other components that have the propensity to take a chit on you.&nbsp; Do you need to spend $80K on a new Tahoe?&nbsp; Nope.&nbsp; No way!!&nbsp; But a good quality newer SUV to fit 5 people for a family vacation that still gives quality reliability year round may very well be worth the expenditure.&nbsp; Not everyone wants to drive around in a chit pile year in and year out.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Parks 788, post: 3591982, member: 14646"] I'm not going to disagree with your comment. However, when the OP mentioned he had a family of 5+ going on a raod trip for 10 days and traveling thousands of miles and spending thousands of dollars on hotels, rental homes/cabins, food, entertainment, and other costs you don't really want to be putting all these cost and expenditures on the line trying to make this trip happen in an 18 year old SUV. You're asking for a ruined trip. This doesn't account for the thousands of dollars spent throughout the year on trying to keep said vehicle on the road and hoping it will turnover each morning to get to work. if you drop $5K-$12K on the powertrain to make it reliable that's fine but you are sill driving around in an 18 year old interior, body and other components that have the propensity to take a chit on you. Do you need to spend $80K on a new Tahoe? Nope. No way!! But a good quality newer SUV to fit 5 people for a family vacation that still gives quality reliability year round may very well be worth the expenditure. Not everyone wants to drive around in a chit pile year in and year out. [/QUOTE]

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