Hi all, the other day I looked at all the repairs that have been done to my car in the 13 months I've owned it and I'm certainly astonished. I bought the car 9/6/2014 at 121,800 miles for 3500$, the original asking price was 5000$. I'm currently at 131,150, I only received my license 7 months ago, since then I have done about 1000 miles a month, excluding my month where I was out of the country. In the past 9 thousand or so miles/ 13 months I have spent a Total of 3400$ on the car's maintenance . The labor only being 1350 of that . In total 2 Grand in parts. Did I buy Protege5 at the wrong mileage or was mine just heavily abused before being purchased? I have posted on the Forum several times asking what Modifications I should make, and every single time I got the approval and money to do it, Something expensive went wrong. I know that soon I'm going to need to replace my front Rotors and Pads because those are at about 30% left. I also have noticed a Grinding noise that occurs under very hard acceleration, last week it was only in 1st at WOT, now its 3/4 throttle in 1st and WOT in 2nd. Is there anything else that tends to Break in the next 10,000 or so miles that I should be aware of/ prepared to fix? I want to know if I will ever really be able to modify my car, because had I not needed any of those major repairs at the moment I would have either done a Boosted KL swap (My friend was willing to sell his to me for really cheap when he was parting out his car, and it was relatively newly built with Forged Internals), MS3 Rims with Pilot Supersports or Dunlop Direza Star Spec ZII tires on 225/40/r18's, and some nice racing Beat Coil-overs, along with Sway bars, and strut towers. I just got a very well paying job and I want to A be able to modify my car so it fast and Custom, or B just lease a new Challenger RT Scat Pack. At the bottom I have included the excel document with all the repairs done on my car, with the price, odo reading, date, and individual costs (labor and parts).
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hGMblwCbAX6qplLPCLizUvWZrbsjOuZbj5GrRSXcCpE/edit?usp=sharing
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hGMblwCbAX6qplLPCLizUvWZrbsjOuZbj5GrRSXcCpE/edit?usp=sharing
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