A 2000 Camry with 110K miles shouldn't be needing that kind of work. I'd say that the suspicion that "something is off with THIS one" is correct. (By contrast, our 1993 Camry with 200K averages about $500/year in maintenance work, all of it stuff you'd expect - new battery, replacement of the original 5-year-expected-lifespan axles at 12 years old, etc. In the entire life of this car, nobody's paid $2000 in repairs at one sitting, unless we count that time it was smushed by an 18-wheeler [that was about 10 years ago, too!].) Do you trust your mechanic to tell you if the car's likely to throw any new problems soon? Because $2000 more to keep it running 10 more years (which wouldn't be unreasonable to ask of a 6-year-old Toyota) is fine; $2000 so it can need $2000 *more* in another year is not. Honestly, I kind of think the latter is more likely....
and you might want to look into the sort of used Toyota you can get for $2000 instead. (Or not. I couldn't really blame you if you were soured on Toyota, though I do think you got incredibly unlucky and this is very atypical.)
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Date: 2006-02-22 03:25 pm (UTC)and you might want to look into the sort of used Toyota you can get for $2000 instead. (Or not. I couldn't really blame you if you were soured on Toyota, though I do think you got incredibly unlucky and this is very atypical.)