BS - Wednesday, March 28, 1984 - North Shore News 200,000 miles THE AVERAGE car owner needlessly throws away thousands, perhaps tens of thousands of dollars in a lifetime of buying and selling autos. The plain truth is that most cars are capable of over 200,000 miles. I guess it’s a thrill to buy a new car every two or three years, although it’s not much of a thrill to By ELLSWORTH DICKSON Len Macht, owner of Crash Pad Collision inform- finance car after car, never getting out of debt. Yet there are people who take care of their vehicles properly and truly end up driving a bargain. x Extends engine life _ goes for your car. ‘Propane the alternative tuel Sa ee ed the News that taking care Taxi companies prove this every day with some cars lasting 400,000 miles, especially those powered | propane. * AVOID RUST Macht has a few tips to make your car last longer. Aside from the owner, rust is the car’s major enemy. The of your car is like taking care of your teeth. 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On a nice sunny afternoon, clean the chipped area and using the cardboard end of a paper match like a little brush, fill in the chip hole with touch-up paint let it dry, and fill it again. TUNE-UP your car when changing the ail. If your car has those little grease plugs, take them out and install real grease nip- ples. It’s cheap and you will know there is grease in those. ball joints. 30,000. MILES As your-car climbs up to terrible thing about rust is~—under the fenders. Cars can that it is an irreversible pro- cess that has no cure except cutting it out and welding in new metal, an expensive proposition. 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