Strangely enough, I can feel your pain too.
We used to own 2 dodge neon's. Timing belt went on my wife's, pooched to engine. Unrepairable and scrapped. She drove mine for a while, then I got the truck to replace the car. She was on her way home from work and had just got past Commissioners on Highbury (heading north) on the way home, and the timing belt went on the other neon, pooched the engine, unrepairable, scrapped. That left us with just my truck.
With a lil help from my parents, we got the car we drive now, (2019 Nissan Kicks) brand new. I had our mechanic take a good hard look at my truck. I wanted to know if it was a timing belt that we'd need to change, or a timing chain. It was a chain
but when my wife transferred from St T to London for work earlier this year, we got rid of my truck. Her job is literally 5 minutes drive away, so we decided we didn't need 2 vehicles anymore. Bit of a pain when I wanna go fishing and she needs the car for something else (that hasn't happened yet, but I'm sure it will eventually and we all know who will win that discussion right
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With the price of gas, especially when the truck was a pig on gas being a 19 yr old vehicle with a V6 and despite no claims of any kind, the insurance went up this year, which isn't really a surprise since they had to recoup some of the losses they took over the pandemic somehow, it was a good call to get rid of the truck. It almost certainly wouldn't have passed a safety if required/requested, and after putting into it more than I paid for it in the first year and a bit that I owned it, I wasn't about to pour more $$ that I didn't and don't have into it to keep it on the road.
When I took all my stuff out of it, my mechanic had been right. He told me it would last me 5 yrs but not much longer, (I had it for almost 8) and where the spare tire sits in the back, when I lifted the cover, the only thing I could see was the spike that held that tire, the axle and the pavement below. The bottom of that wheel well had completely rusted out and no longer existed. I can only imagine how the rest of the undercarriage may have looked. (and yes I had it undercoated several times while I owned it as well as replacing, ALL within the first year after I bought it; tye rods on both sides, multiple times, ignition coils x3 of 6, complete exhaust pipe including the 3 catalytic converters the damn thing had, that was a lil pricey, and the alternator. So much for it being in "great shape" as my mechanic had told me which convinced me to buy it. It had also developed an oil leak he couldn't find the source of, and a power steering fluid leak, but only in the warm months, in winter it didn't leak at all. Funny enough, the brakes he told me would need replacing within a year, never got replaced, because it wasn't necessary. I hardly drove it other than during fishing season.)
my tranny went as well back down in Port Rowan a couple of year’s ago,while planning a day of perch fishing with 
your transmission won’t be a expensive one!! 
