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Originally Posted by smokeyyank
The alternators are hard to diagnosis and sometimes they just crap out. In reality if all you have left is the tranny and chain guides. Those are both items you can be proactive with. The guides are something that you can do now and not worry about for a very long time. Yes, its a very intense undertaking, not cheap even to DIY, but once it's done you should get plenty of miles. Tranny is a toss up, but when you start having issues it's obvious. Worst case you can find rebuilds for about 3k. To do a service on them isn't hard and is about $200 for parts and fluid. At the end of the day though it's still a performance vehicle and will need more things than just a car. Really only you can make that choice of if it's worth the driving pleasure to trade some maintenance cost. Brakes are more, tires are more; everything is more but you get a hell of a lot more enjoyment out of driving it. Personally, if I was in your shoes I'd sell it, look at getting a 3.0 X5, 4runner or something more daily friendly. It's great vehicle but I wouldn't daily mine, would rather beat on my jeeps!
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This pretty much describes where I am with the whole thing right now. I have decided to put 3 to 5 thousand miles on it, and see how we are feeling about it. If we are going to keep it, it has to be used in our daily lives. We don't have the room, time, or finances for a garage queen. The car is in such fine shape, I can tell already that I won't want to take it some of the places that I go in the Outback, even though their off pavement capabilities are about the same. I couldn't bear to get any brush scratches on this paint - etc. So, in the long-run, I will likely sell it to a good home. But I plan to enjoy it for a few months first.