I liked my rental car. I probably should look into a new car. My commute is 157 mi. I am driving a Dodge Durango that says it gets 11 mpg. :/ The car is also unreliable ever since the gasket cracked half a year ago. We had it repaired instead of buying a new car, but it continued to have problems afterwards. We've had to replace the water hose, the gasket cracked again (covered by warranty), had to replace the "PCM"? I guess that was a computer thing for the car. It went haywire saying that there was no electricity, all the electricity in it was turning on/off like it was dead, battery symbol, but battery was good. Axel was leaking and made loud noise so both of them got replaced. Before realizing the gasket was cracked again, it had a continuous check engine light for the 6th cylinder and replaced all of the spark plugs, spark plug wires, the charge coil, and fuel injectors trying to fix that check engine light. Was driving rough as well. We've put all this money into fixing it and it's been mostly working fine. Had one incident where the check engine light wasn't just continuous, but flashing! That resolved on its own before I could pull over, and the mechanic couldn't find anything noticeably wrong with it... I was driving somewhat fast up hill so think maybe I just over pushed it? Replaced an oil piece that they think maybe was very dirty or clog that could've triggered it. I just like that the car is big and very comfortable inside, but it has not been financially friendly to me, especially taking a 24% paycut for the new job and the longer commute I have now.
