In my younger years I worked for 3 different oil companies as a part time garage mechanic. I can't tell you how many people just put gas in and drive them. When something breaks, they don't like what it costs to fix it. In most cases, it wouldn't have broken in the first place if they had just taken care of it! Brakes and overheating were the 2 biggest problems.

Outside of buying a house, and automobile is life's single biggest investment. You should take care of it.

Oh, wait! I forgot about a wife and kids!

 

So true. And nowadays with all the lease cars, lots of those aren't even getting oil changes. People figure they're going to turn them in so why bother wasting the money.

You've got that right.