not at all, i am young and open to alot of suggestions, and which i know the subaru does need alot of work but i am in no hurray to beat up a car that i put so much time in, actually i had my choice of a 2002 blazer or the subaru and i picked the subaru just for the fact that i know that if i have to work on a car and put time and effort into it then i am not going to abuse are gona have it, because i mean if you uto peal that orange your are going to eat every bit of it, but it you are just handed a pealed orange you are gona waste alot of it. i call that the orange theroy ... thank you for the warning once again