the real strat is own 3 shitboxes that way you always have one that can drive you to the auto parts store to fix the others

luckily i live within walking distance of an autoparts store. so even when i take parts of my car off and can't drive it, only to realize i have the wrong fucking part or tool, i can just walk to the parts store.

>>28495493 (OP)
Jokes on you, I have fixed shitboxes and a motorcycle for when the vehicles are all broke

>>28495605
When you run out of cars the motorcycle makes the world right again.
I love having that option.

>just maintain 3 shitboxes
And where am I supposed to keep them when I don't live in mom's basement?

>>28495736
Two in the garage and one on the driveway?

>>28495493 (OP)
Or just don't get married.

>>28495493 (OP)
Three shitboxes and a regular newish car because I have broken all three of my shitboxes before.

>>28495740
>just spend 1.5 million on a house with a garage so you can upkeep your 300 dollar car

>>28495493 (OP)
>paying for three lots of registration and insurance

>>28496026
the kind of /o/tism we should all strive for

>>28496039
Registration for me is like $40/yr per vehicle. Insurance isn't that bad because you usually only have one vehicle as your primary commuting vehicle. The other additional vehicles are cheap to insure.

>>28496086
What flyover shithole is this?

>>28496093
>flyover shithole
Upon learning that not everyone lives in a beauracratic nightmare full of corruption, confiscatory taxes, and an evergrowing population of criminals, the coastal poster lashes out to protect his unearned superiority complex.

>>28496093
Not a flyover shithole. It's a rich oil city of over a million people.

I am in this situation. Coincidentally, what's a cheaper reliable shitbox to get when my other cheap reliable shitbox is down? Maybe I'll get a Twingo.

>>28496039
depends on your insurance.
My second car (old mini) costs just under 100€/year for example, started at 82 when I got it a few years ago

>>28496198
Doesn’t work that way, you need minimum three reliable cheap shitboxes:
>SB1 down
>You drive SB2 a couple of weeks, also breaks down
>You still have SB3
>You will never fix SB1, for SB2 there’s still hope, because it was only the starter this time, well it at least starts, maybe, it isn’t at least locked-up, no point wondering why the coolant level is so low
>SB3 is now promoted to SB1, while you start searching for a new SB3

>>28496361
Well we all gotta start our shitbox collection somewhere, if I could afford to go buy 3 shitboxes in one go I wouldn't be buying shitboxes.

>>28495595
>20 minutes away from parts store and 30 minutes away from hardware store
>mfw i drop a bolt

None of that matters to me because the parts stores or hardware stores never have what I need. Not a tool, part, things I could rig up, nothing. They'll have stuff close to it, but doesn't work. Yet I keep going back. I keep thinking "maybe they'll have it" but nope. They never do. I search around town just go head back home and order it online like I told myself to. But I had to check.

>>28496485
Then the few times they do have what you need it's chinesium shit that's costs 3 times as much as what you would have paid online for a better quality part

>>28496448
Magnet on a stick is your friend. Amd keep lots of random bolts around just in case.

>>28496039
Two of my shitboxes are on permanent historic plates. $150 one-time registration, can't be driven in January. Two are on regular plates - $85/yr and $100/yr respectively. One doesn't have plates at all and I just no-cost online transfer one of my regular plates onto it to drive it.
Two cars have liability insurance, one is full coverage, the other two are uninsured. A quick phone call to the insurance agent switches coverage around as I need to.

>>28496361
>sb1 breaks
>drive sb2 while procrastinating fixing sb1
>sb2 breaks
>drive sb3
>fix sb1 because it's an easier repair than sb2
>sb3 breaks
>drive sb1
>fix sb2 because it's an easier repair than sb3
Repeat forever

>>28496039
Who says I do that?

>>28496026
I literally tried doing something like that earlier this year.