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Shroomslip
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Jokeshopbeard said: I don't understand why it's so culturally normal to have a 'car payment' over there. Does nobody ever buy a car outright?
Personally, although I'd spend £30k on a motorbike, I never spend more than £1k on a car. That's my cutoff. The last one cost £750 five years ago and is still running strong (just past its test for the 22nd year and went straight through) and the one before that cost £270 and was great for about four years.
I know you aint exactly flush right now Ra, why not just buy a used Honda? I can help you out with the most reliable ones.
There's basically three groups of people (besides the super wealthy who can afford to buy Ferraris and shit outright anyways) 1. People well off enough to afford brand new cars 2. People who can afford used, but more recent cars 3. People who can afford cash cars. 1 and 2 usually don't have enough money laying around to buy the car outright.
My reason for wanting a car I had to put on payments? All I've ever had were beaters and cash cars. All well over 10 years old when I got them. There is constantly something breaking or something that needs to be fixed no matter how well you inspect it and determine it to be in good working order. I no longer have friends and family to rely on and I'm on a tight budget. I can't afford to have a car that's going to be in a constant state of repair. My car payment is about 380 a month, and a 2k down payment. My Sonata was a little over 5k cash and it seems like I had to put at least 100-200 a month into repairs and maintenance and shit. Shit, to get the AC fixed would've cost almost 1k and I live in Texas. AC is so important in a vehicle here, pretty much every Craigslist ad for a car touts it's coldness.
I could have gotten something a little cheaper, but since I'm going to be paying on something for years, I decided I might as well get something I actually WANT to drive for once. My car is your motorcycle. You have fun on your bike right? Well I have a lot of fun in my car.
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Edited by Shroomslip (01/23/20 06:09 PM)
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Ahab McBathsalts
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Re: How much is your car note? [Re: Northerner]
#26448747 - 01/23/20 06:08 PM (4 years, 24 days ago) |
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Leasing is too low rent. I rent a truck from a car rental place every month and turn it in when it needs new tires or I smash it up.
$1500/mo
LOL.
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Re: How much is your car note? [Re: Shroomslip]
#26448796 - 01/23/20 06:31 PM (4 years, 24 days ago) |
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Yeah I currently rent. Well, I don't, my company does. But I see the receipt and it's over $2k every six weeks.
Fucking obscene.
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Shroomslip said: I could have gotten something a little cheaper, but since I'm going to be paying on something for years, I decided I might as well get something I actually WANT to drive for once. My car is your motorcycle. You have fun on your bike right? Well I have a lot of fun in my car.
Oh I get it. If I even knew where I lived/am gonna put roots down, then ANY vehicle I buy I will feel somewhat passioate about.
I HATE regularly using a vehicle which has no guts. I want my machines to have character.
Heart. I'll pay through the bloody nose for it.
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Re: How much is your car note? [Re: Shroomslip]
#26449518 - 01/24/20 08:05 AM (4 years, 23 days ago) |
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All I've ever had were beaters and cash cars. All well over 10 years old when I got them. There is constantly something breaking or something that needs to be fixed no matter how well you inspect it and determine it to be in good working order.
Exactly the same for me. Also what you say about Texas and needing a good AC (I'm from FT WT, where you at) in a car is so very true. There was many cars I had with no AC and I had to go to work sweating my fucking ass off, and I waited tables, uuuuggghh!
@FSR: I think it's for 6 years, but I'll try to pay it off in 2-4 years. It is the nicest car I've ever had and I plan on driving it for at least 6-10 years. It's a Buick.
(go ahead and laugh people, this car is fucking incredible, to me anyway)
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Never get a loan from a car dealership.
Join a credit union, you can get car loans for like 2.5% interest.
Always buy used cars, but buy them from a factory dealer. They tend to have much better warranties, which can greatly reduce your expense if they break down. My car for example got $4k in repairs that were absolutely free about 6 months after I purchased it.
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Re: How much is your car note? [Re: christopera]
#26449626 - 01/24/20 09:13 AM (4 years, 23 days ago) |
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I have a year bumper to bumper.
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Shroomslip
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I'm in Houston. Right now it's not a big deal but damn when it starts getting hot.. a 5 minute drive to the store meant I'd be drenched in sweat by the time I got there.
My mustang's ac is ridiculously cold. I can't even run it at max.
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With my face against the floor I can’t see who knocked me out of the way. I don’t want to get back up but I have to so it might as well be today. Nothing appeals to me no one feels like me, I’m too busy being calm to disappear. I’m in no shape to be alone contrary to the shit that you might hear. You can't wake up, this is not a dream. You're part of a machine, you are not a human being With your face all made up, living on a screen. Low on self esteem, so you run on gasoline
Edited by Shroomslip (01/24/20 09:26 AM)
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Re: How much is your car note? [Re: Shroomslip]
#26449667 - 01/24/20 09:46 AM (4 years, 23 days ago) |
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Yeah man, and that fucking humidity, fuuuuuuuck!
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I would never buy a car on credit so I only ever own old crappy cars 
Our commercial guy leases a Tesla Model S for €1300 a month
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Re: How much is your car note? [Re: christopera]
#26449805 - 01/24/20 11:35 AM (4 years, 23 days ago) |
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christopera said: Never get a loan from a car dealership.
Join a credit union, you can get car loans for like 2.5% interest.
Always buy used cars, but buy them from a factory dealer. They tend to have much better warranties, which can greatly reduce your expense if they break down. My car for example got $4k in repairs that were absolutely free about 6 months after I purchased it.
Thanks for the advice
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Certified pre owned has the factory warranty as well, but not that interest rate, solid advice there.
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I'm at 4.4% on the used car I got this last August.
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