Everyone's breakdown experience is different and certainly helps to shape their approach to preventive maintenance. For me, having experienced several breakdowns of varying degrees of severity - the most noteworthy being a truly spectacular turbo failure in a Saab at 1am on the SC/GA border 800 miles from home - I'm inclined to err on the side of safe rather than sorry. I do a fair number of road trips, and the memory of having to track down a Saab specialist in a semi-remote corner of the Deep South left lasting scars.
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