The "Money pit" stage is exactly right, argh 😩 My mechanic just said, "If your car is more than ten years old and is costing you less than $3k a year, you're coming out ahead," but I could only think, "Am I? Am I really? Because this thing cost me $5k, and two years of the expenses I've been having would, in fact, be less than that." But it cost me $5k in 2016, and who knows how much a similar car would cost me these days. IDK IDK.