Yeah nah bruh ! Drive a beater for a few years it's not that bad. Let's say you buy a 5k car and it needs 2k in repairs that's still saving you 13k that's nothing to shake a stick at. However I will say @ 270k miles I'm about to put new tires and a power steering pump on a 2009 salvage title Nissan morons. That's not the best idea either. But it's still a he'll of a lot cheaper than a new car