I finally told the guy at the parts counter in Toledo to stop selling me the premium stuff
Last month I walked into a parts store off Monroe Street in Toledo for a $12 thermostat gasket and the guy behind the counter kept pushing me toward a $34 premium gasket kit, saying the cheap one would fail in 6 weeks. I told him my old truck was a beater with 210k on the clock and the plain gasket has worked fine twice already, and he just shrugged and rang it up without another word. Do you all stick with the basic part on high-mileage cars or do you actually buy the upsell?