u/kykitten

Hi friends! I’m on the brink of a crisis over what to do with my forester, save it or trade it in for something else. Basically there’s been a weird vibrating for some time now, new tires didn’t fix it, took it to my mechanic and it definitely needs new control arms BUT they also discovered a few other things. My cat is performing at max 40-50% power, and I haven’t been getting great gas mileage since I bought it in June 2024. I can’t recall ever hitting 30mpg whether it’s city or highway, but I make frequent 200mi round trip trips every month and I’d say it’s averaging 25mpg highway at about 75-80 mph (lead foot). I’ll attach the work up my shop gave & if I decide to make all the repairs I’ll definitely be getting certain things done myself (breaks & rotors) but the $5k repairs is essentially what I’ve already paid on the loan for the car :(. It’s the loml and the features make me feel spoiled but the repairs & sad mpg is making me consider trading it in for a hybrid CX-50 or hybrid For ester (though the mpg isn’t as great and that screen makes me puke). Help💔💔💔

EDIT: I still have about $12k owed, bad loan from when I first bought it. If I decide to fix it I do plan on refinancing for a better APR but part of my decision to trade is due to the payments for something newer/better mpg