the grill

[David Eaton]

i agree totally!  but there are other benefits of the newer
cars...

dave
'01 s8
'04 allroad tdi

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> 
> On Nov 8, 2006, at 4:07 PM, David Eaton wrote:
> 
> > i fail to see your difficulty with this?  if you expect
> > a 6-year old car to not require more expensive
> > maintainence than a younger car then you need to
> > re-think.  everything has a design life, and mechanical
> > components all wear.  the longer you own/use a car, the
> > more likely that you will experience a failure.
> >
> > you cover this by upgrading to a newer car, you take a
> > warranty, or hope for the best.
> I just think that the rep chose a bad tactic for selling
> new cars.    Rather than emphasize expensive maintenance,
> wouldn't emphasizing new   features, better performance,
> etc, be a better tactic?  It is really   the contrast of a
> negative-centric versus positive-centric approach.
> 
> I guess my main beef is that the rep's approach
> essentially was   saying that "a new car will cost less
> than maintenance on your old   one", which any shade tree
> mechanic on Audifans knows to be   offensively false. 
> Quick scenario: New Audi is $45k. Used 5-year old   Audi
> is $15k.  Assuming that the new audi needs no repairs over
> the   course of 5 years, you could buy three complete used
> Audis and swap   parts between the three before you would
> have spent $45k.  Now if you   were replacing only parts,
> it would stretch even farther.
> 
> I hope this wasn't taken the wrong way.  I'm not trying to
> start a   war here, I'm just trying to express how miffed
> I was at the sales   approach.  But, I guess that comes
> down to taste.  (I also find the   political slams ads,
> which seem to be getting ever more popular, in   very poor
> taste and really rather unsportsman-like)
> 
> -Chris