Royal Reliability

["Smith, Kirby A" <kirby.a.smith@lmco.com>]

Paul Royal wrote, in part:

>The bottom line is that in 20 months and 82,000 miles I've spent over
>$6300  in repairs and major maintenance items such as timing belts.  

Paul, thats only 7.7 cents (US) per mile.  I'd never expect to get away
that cheaply.  Fortunately, I travel a _lot_ fewer miles per year.  Look
at it this way, a new one would depreciate more than that after 82k
miles, and would be ready for a lot of maintenance, perhaps.


         ....  Kirby  (kirby.a.smith@lmco.com)
                   New Hampshire, USA
                      2 X 1988 90q