Ah when it rains it pours as the saying goes. Adding to the list of Artie-is-a-little-stressed-lately, now the transmission went out on H's car, that has going on 340,000 (!) miles on it. We are in the process of trying to decide whether he should get a new transmission put in for $5400 and try to keep it for another couple years, and hope the engine doesn't crap out, or if we should get out of it now and sell it/trade it in (not sure it would be worth much with so many miles on it) towards a new-to-us used car. So he's in the other room researching cars as our mechanic said he did NOT recommend buying another Nissan (we have a Nissan Altima right now) because they are known for the transmissions going out. But then again we did get over 300,000 miles on it before it did, so.... just lucky I guess?