Trade Or Keep

[tslex]

I have just replaced the transmission in my Rx300 yr 99 with 90,000 miles. I hate to keep the car and experience more diffuculties, I am not sure if it is worth keeping. The sad part is I spent several thousand dollars to replace the transmission and now its time for all the major services on the car. I was just wondering how many of you traded or kept?

[RX in NC]

As long as the local Lexus dealer will keep repairing the various known problems that have surfaced on this vehicle at their expense through their "goodwill" warranty program, we'll keep it. But once any major repairs become my own checkbook's responsibility, or at the 130,000-mile plateau when depreciation and write-off becomes prudent from a financial planning perspective, my wife's RX300 is gone. Whichever comes first....