I tried to keep a 10 year old truck going and every year at inspection time it was a list of items totaling 3-4 thousand many of them things that had been replaced recently. I would take it to another shop and the list of items were different but the price the same, 3-4 thousand. They see an old vehicle and it’s dollar signs. For that money I can have a car payment so that’s what I did. Keeping an old car alive in vermont isn’t worth it because you are dependent on some scammer mechanic every year. It’s actually not environmentally friendly to send our cars to junk yards after 5-10 years and not a very “vermonty” thing to do.