# WTB First Car

**URL:** <https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wtb-first-car/36407>\
**Category:** Classifieds\
**Created:** [October 3, 2007, 2:28pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wtb-first-car/36407 "2007-10-03T14:28:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![Silver](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/silver/32/4953_2.png) [@Silver](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Silver)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2007, 9:57am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wtb-first-car/36407/49 "2007-10-05T09:57:59Z")

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You never know if it’s going to be reliable until you buy it. You should never ASSUME a sub 4-5k car is going to be reliable enough to drive to California and back, that’s just poor common sense. It could do it, it could not…but I PERSONALLY wouldn’t take the gamble by assuming that 2k was all I was going to have to pay on it. It’s good sense to allot a little more IN CASE.

And I did the Cali to New York drive in 4 days. 11 hours, 11 hours, 11 hours, 8 1/2 hours… and that was in a 93 Geo tracker that was leaking oil so bad I had to put another quart in almost every hour the last day.

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