If you have a car, how old is it?

[Kennah]

112. 2005 Saturn Relay and 2017 Honda Accord

The Relay has about 145K original miles. We bought it new in 2005. The 3.5L V6 has a decent record. Thank Gaia, it's not a GM 3.6L V6.

About 2016, the right-side power sliding door started flaking out. Opened while driving. Fortunately, it was on side streets at 25 MPH and the kids were seatbelted in. Read a lot of stories of owners online who'd spent thousands for GM to chase down ghosts in the power sliding door machinery. Found a YouTube video about which fuses to pull to disconnect the electronics controlling the power sliding door then disconnect the motor cables from the door. Now it's an ordinary manual door.

Needed work a couple of years ago. Asked the wife, and she wanted to keep "her baby". So waded into paying for needed work over time.
$1300 for steering gear and belt
$1500 (I think) for struts and springs
$3200 for front and rear main seals, oil pan gasket, valve cover gaskets, timing cover gasket
$1000 for ECU and PGM
$1600 for other assorted repairs I don't recall all the details of, but I remember a radiator flush and thermostat

The radiator had a lot of rust last spring. So I pulled the thermostat and used a rust remover. Twice. The radiator is now in much better shape. I backflushed the heater core, and it's now putting out better heat.

Used to leak oil horribly until after the resealing. Like a 1/2 quart every 200-300 miles. Still leaks oil, but it's better. Now maybe leaks 1/2 quart every 500-1000 miles.

There's a coolant leak somewhere. I think I know where it is. I think it's a nut that's insufficiently torqued.

I've been adding Lucas Stop Leak as it loses oil, and it's leaking less.

I am one by one removing the plastic wheel covers, cleaning them, repairing cracks, prepping, priming, and painting. Let me practice plastic repair with hot staples and welding. They have a fair bit of faded color.

The radio is acting flakey at times. I'm gonna replace it. One of the power door actuators needs replacing.

I thought about buying a new minivan, but ha, fat chance. The only ones that I have faith about reliability are a used Sienna or Odyssey. Found a 2016 Odyssey with about 60K miles for $32K.

This is the likely world for a while.