You're not supposed to do that?


Hey, you know I respect your opinion, but I have to disagree somewhat with you. Although I do look at the driving habits of many people, age of the cars, condition, etc., and wonder how the things are running this long. Example-

Saturday I see this 60+ year old man get into his late 80's conversion van at a store. He cranks it up, and the engine has not even come back down to idle RPM and he's slammed it into drive and is driving off.

I'm wondering to myself how the thing is still running, much less not smoking, etc., when I say to myself, "ahh, it's a Chevy. The transmission has been replaced once, rebuilt once, and it's got 34,000 miles on the thing.



I know what you are saying, but if you are intent on keeping a car "forever", then babying it as much as you can won't hurt, IMO.

Hey, I like to push it to it's potential every now and then, and I don't see anything wrong with that.