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acruxksa
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| Dr. EvilCheeze wrote: |
I prefer to buy the thing, sure the payments are a little more but then you pay it off and can have no car payments for several years. We're on a 10 yr rotation here. Every 10 yrs one of us will get a new car. |
I'm with you Cheezy,
We buy a car and basically drive it until the maintenance/repair bills start totalling around %70 of the annual cost of a new car. Which in my case was around 8yrs for our Suburban and 10yrs for our VW Jetta.
Personally I would never trust a new or used car salesman, they have a habit of understating the total cost of a vehicle and trying to tack on all manner of extra charges, like the Dodge your brother in law mentioned, we bought a new 2005 Grand Caravan a few month ago and from what I was told ALL new dodges come with a 7yr./70,000 mile bumber to bumper warranty which already includes free oil changes. Why he would have had to pay an extra $8 a month ($24/oil change) for the service is beyond me.
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Little Bruin
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JimBowy
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knight0334
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BeerCheeze
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| Posted: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 09:35:44 Post Subject: |
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 Very true... of course this is why Misty doesn't like going to a car dealer with me. She thinks I'm an "a$$hole" to them. |
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dadx2mj
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| Posted: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 10:33:54 Post Subject: |
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| Dr. EvilCheeze wrote: | | Very true... of course this is why Misty doesn't like going to a car dealer with me. She thinks I'm an "a$$hole" to them. |
And she thinks that is a bad thing?   |
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knight0334
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| Posted: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 11:17:44 Post Subject: |
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| Dr. EvilCheeze wrote: | | Very true... of course this is why Misty doesn't like going to a car dealer with me. She thinks I'm an "a$$hole" to them. |
She should be present when my dad is car shopping.. lol I think dad makes it a point to save up all hostilities for all other reasons and then lets them go when he car shops. |
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Kilamon
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Y'all need to get out and enjoy the weather. Get out of the cars and on to a motorcycle.  I only paid 8 grand after financing and it runs like a champ. Gets me from point A to B at 45 MPG. Sure, it's a little colder in the winter, but that's why nature has cows (to make leather). |
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