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Many people will try their best to hold on to the car they currently own to avoid having to pay a large sum of money or take out a loan for a new car, but sometimes the new car may actually be more cost effective. At a certain point the repairs a car needs cost more than a new healthy car would cost -- the only issue is that when that time comes may not always be obvious. Ron Ananian, host of ‘The Car Doctor’ on the iHeartRadio app talked about when a car has gotten too costly to fix and trusting your mechanic.
“I always had three rules for most of my career: when body rust got to be too much, when it had water leaks, and when it had weird electrical bugaboos,” Ananian told host Larry Mendte. “This is where the value of having a relationship with your mechanic is so important because a lot of guys will just keep throwing money at it.”
Ananian believes a certain approach makes all the difference between a good and bad mechanic: “My philosophy has always been, and I think the better shops their philosophy is always fix the hard problem first.”
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