maintenance on a ford escape...

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@JayS

Niether. If you have to buy a vehicle with 100k miles to get it in your price range, especially if you’re financing, you’re buying more car than you can afford. Even more true if this is going to be her daily driver, which is sounds like it is.

Spend 8k on a Focus with 20k miles and drive it for several years with nothing but brakes and fluid changes.

Listen to the man, this is good advice.