“…Love et al (1982) and Love and Guo (1996) consider repair limit problems in vehicle replacement cases. Nakagawa and Osaki (1974), Osaki (1981, 1982), Muth (1977), and Murthy (1980, 1981) derive the optimal repair-time limits minimizing the expected cost rates with and without discounting. Dohi et al (1995Dohi et al ( , 1996Dohi et al ( , 1997Dohi et al ( , 1998Dohi et al ( , 2000aDohi et al ( , 2000bDohi et al ( , 2001aDohi et al ( , 2001bDohi et al ( , 2003aDohi et al ( , 2003bDohi et al ( , 2006Dohi et al ( , 2007Dohi et al ( , 2010 deal with cost and profit models in repair time limit problems with and without discounting.…”