To All:
I have a 2002 Taurus SEL wagon with all of the toys. It currently has 160k miles on it and has led a harsh life in upstate NY. It has shuttled kids back and forth to school, took us on camping trips throughout the Northeast and has hauled tons of stuff related to building projects and even a couple of cords of wood (in a few trips) from the woods. It has been a troublefree vehicle that I have really grown quite fond of. It was replaced as our daily driver last year and is currently used for hauling big loads including trash, bee equipment and our two dogs on jaunts to the country.
It's NYS inspection expired last month and when I went to my independent mechanic he laughed and said it wasn't worth fixing. He listed the following problems:
I wouldn't think twice about crushing it except it has been very reliable and I've grown quite fond of the wagon through the years. Plus, did I mention you cannot get an actual wagon these days?
What are your thoughts? Crush it or spend a month of Saturdays piecing it back together so that it can make inspection?
I have a 2002 Taurus SEL wagon with all of the toys. It currently has 160k miles on it and has led a harsh life in upstate NY. It has shuttled kids back and forth to school, took us on camping trips throughout the Northeast and has hauled tons of stuff related to building projects and even a couple of cords of wood (in a few trips) from the woods. It has been a troublefree vehicle that I have really grown quite fond of. It was replaced as our daily driver last year and is currently used for hauling big loads including trash, bee equipment and our two dogs on jaunts to the country.
It's NYS inspection expired last month and when I went to my independent mechanic he laughed and said it wasn't worth fixing. He listed the following problems:
- Tires are shot (but I have some snows on steelies in the garage that could get me through the next year)
- Two major rust holes in the floorboards, one under the accelerator pedal on the driver's side and one in the floorpan under the right rear passenger seat (in my day I did do some quick sheet metal work with pop rivets and roofing cement).
- Three out of four exteriorfour door handles need to be fussed with to work.
- Power windows totally dead. GEM Module, wiring, fuse? (Where is the power window fuse anyway? I've looked everywhere for the thing).
- Rear tailgate latch no longer keeps the hatch shut.
- Check engine light on, (NAPA parts guy ran the scanner on it and said that it was probably one or both of the oxygen sensors)
- ABS light on. (it has been on for at least two years...still seems to stop)
- Front springs broken on the struts. (does that have anything to do with the bits of vinyl covered steel that I've been finding in my driveway?)
- Emergency brake cable frozen, rear brakes will need to be redone.
I wouldn't think twice about crushing it except it has been very reliable and I've grown quite fond of the wagon through the years. Plus, did I mention you cannot get an actual wagon these days?
What are your thoughts? Crush it or spend a month of Saturdays piecing it back together so that it can make inspection?