"Lastly, we have partnered with car maintenance shops that will tell us the average cost of service for your particular model."
When you say 'average cost of service', are you talking about:
A) The average cost of the regular annual maintenance and inspection?
B) Everything in A, but also the average cost of expected repairs for N years after purchase?
C) Something else?
When purchasing a car, I'd love to have a great estimate for B, because repairs are a significant proportion of total cost, especially for cars over 10 years old. And the chance of needing an expensive repair in the next N years varies significantly with:
- Make and/or model
- Age of car
- Whether or not a certain repair has already been done (like if a 5 year old MacBook had just had the battery replaced)