350,000??? Is that correct? Why bother at this point gezz should have at least been done 250,000 miles ago. Another reason I don't buy used vehicles....
I assume there must be some peace of mind to have a newer vehicle that's under warranty. That is as long as they don't try to weasel out of the warranty for something breaks but usually nothing breaks and you're good to go with newer cars like that. I however I'm not willing to pay that much for the peace of mind.
I bought a clean 2000 Expedition with 190,000 miles on it and 2012. Now has 257 and the only thing we were placed on it is the alternator and one upper ball joint. It was super clean and rust free I got it very cheaply at $2,000 back then. I put almost nothing in it and it's still worth about $900.
If the transmission would have gone out I simply would have bought a used one off of Facebook, Craigslist for a salvage yard and swapped it. If you don't do the work yourself you can pay someone to swap it. Still wouldn't have had over eight or nine hundred dollars in the repair even if I had to pay someone to swap the trans. This seems like the only way to go to me.
I will never pay for a new car. Even if I won the vulgar Lottery of 1.3 billion dollars and was more than set for life, I still would not buy new. I would go buy a nine month old car that someone decided they wanted something else so they can lose the 20 or 30% willingly because they know they change their mind.
I absolutely can't stand over spend I just won't do it. We all have our Hang-Ups.