My father gave me my Regal when I was 16 for my birthday, he paid $300 and it didn't run, blown up 3.8 V6. We got it running together. To this day I have still never had a car payment.
Having lived in both, I often say WI and MI are very similar except for the car insurance.
I agree, MI car insurance is whacked....however the people, the land, and the weather are all very similar.
We usually got minimum liability insurance, the idea was if you messed up your own car you are on the hook to fix it yourself, no full coverage. Was very cheap, but you can't do that in MI because it's "no ones fault" so you end up paying for all the bad drivers out there.
These days we have full coverage but have a high deductible to keep cost down.
Having lived in both, I often say WI and MI are very similar except for the car insurance.
I agree, MI car insurance is whacked....however the people, the land, and the weather are all very similar.
We usually got minimum liability insurance, the idea was if you messed up your own car you are on the hook to fix it yourself, no full coverage. Was very cheap, but you can't do that in MI because it's "no ones fault" so you end up paying for all the bad drivers out there.
These days we have full coverage but have a high deductible to keep cost down.
Same story, ran normal through a couple of oil changes, then seized up. I'm finally into it again.
(I don't know why either, I suspect cooling or oiling). My father knows a guy that only works on those 3.6L, he's turned it into his full time job because of the timing chain issues. If he has any answers I'll let you know. He does say a lot of them are caused because of lack of maintenance. My father noticed the same thing with the one he had, one side was not as clean.
