RE: [DML] Daily drivers?

["Ryan McCaffrey" <ryanjm@xxxx>]

Ryan,

When I got my car nearly two years ago, I fully planned on using it for
daily driving. My fellow Arizona DeLorean Club owners thought I was insane
(at least, Rick did ;-)), but it's worked out well so far. I bought mine
with only 20,000 miles on it, and in almost two years I've put 16k on it.
There are major 20-year-old things that are going to go wrong and have to be
replaced if you buy a lower mileage car like I did, but the car holds up as
well as I could've hoped or expected. In my opinion, I think daily drivers
probably have fewer catastrophic maintenance issues, because when driven
regularly you tend to knock them out with regular maintenance.

In nearly two daily driver years, I've taken care of the coolant overflow
bottle, the trailing arm bolts, the front end recall kit, the brake master
cylinder, the clutch master and slave cylinders, and the door seals, just to
name a few. My current issue is a dead A/C compressor, which I've been
expecting to go since I got my car as just another one of "those 20-year-old
things."

The point is, don't expect perfection, but do have the confidence to depend
on the D every day.

Ryan McCaffrey
#10014
Arizona DeLorean Club



-----Original Message-----
From: Wright, Ryan (LW) [mailto:Ryan.Wright@xxxx]
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 5:22 PM
To: dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [DML] Daily drivers?

How has it worked out for those of you who use it as a daily
driver?

Thanks,

-Ryan


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