Posted on 09/11/2010 7:30:20 AM PDT by Inappropriate Laughter
Well said and quite true. Poor folks pay attention to this fellow. It is about freedom!
I bought a used 2008 Ford Shelby GT500 with 1800 miles on it, still under warranty, in January of this year from Carmax. I got a great deal and have had no trouble with it. I bought a 2009 VW Touareg with 3500 miles on it, still under warranty, in June of this year from a VW dealer in Dallas. I got a great deal and have had no trouble with it.
Over 22,000 claims from the Cash For Clunkers program are still not paid. At an average of $4000 per vehicle, that means about 88 million dollars are still owed by NObama to the remaining car dealers after NObama cherry picked out those who were Republican.
I have a 76 Chevy Dually with 454 & 8 foot bed. Pull my horse trailers with it. It has over 350,000 miles now & I will drive it until I die.
My “newer” car is a 79 Buick station wagon with an Olds 403 engine. It also is mine until I croak. It has over 195,000 miles.
I have only owned one brand new car in my whole life. 1965 Pontiac station wagon. I put 444,000 == miles on it & then sold it to a guy in Sweden who restored it. Wish I still had it. Towed the 2 horse-carried anything & still got about 18 mpg.
He said they destroyed 750,000 perfectly good vehicles, with values of 2,500-5000””
Local TV had many clips of dealers & Clunkers program. I saw a CORVETTE & a Jaguar on one lot as TRADE IN’s they were only getting a masimum of $4500 for.
That is the best description of a brain dead LIBERAL I can think of. They could have sold the cars for cash to other buyers & not even used the Clunkers program. I find it hard to call a Corvette or a Jag a clunkers, anyway.
Cash for clunkers destroyed the used car market.
Remember to look for that zinc additive when you do oil and filter changes; the newer motor oils are not friendly to the older engines' flat tappet cams and lifters. Damned EPA.
I know an elderly couple who just got ripped off by Honda. I wish they had let me know they were going to give their 2001 Honda Accord to the Honda dealer. I would have offered them a few thousand
The man in the family was unhappy because his moon roof was leaking. The Honda dealer suggested he lease a car. So he got a three year lease/$250/per month w nothing down on a 2010 Honda Accord. I’m looking at the Honda website and I see lots of lease deals.....basically they were tricked into a lease that has them giving their 2001 Honda to the dealer http://automobiles.honda.com/current-offers.aspx The “nothing down” part hypnotized them into donating their car to the skunks at the dealership
This is how effin stupid some people are. This couple also has children who would have been interested in the automobile I think
In Texas, selling anyone a car for $1 wouldn’t necessarily be doing them a favor b/c the sales tax would be calculated on the value of the car as determined by the State of Texas. Amazingly these old cars can still have a hefty value on them. I did a title transfer the other day for a guy who bought an 87 Mercedes 560SL Roadster and the taxable value was over $11K. He paid $100 for it, or so he claimed, but was on the hook for $687 in sales tax. He was not a happy camper.
I can attest to the fact that good used cars are in very short supply and that prices are at a premium. A lot of people are buying cars on E-Bay or Craigslist and all I can say is, not smart b/c a lot of the titles are jacked up. Never buy a used car with a messed up title such as seller not being the registered owner, erasures or white-out on the back of the title, one person signing off a title with 2 owners, a title with a deceased owner, etc. Check with your local DMV before you get yourself into a real can of worms.
I deal with these situations every day.
We’ve put hundreds of thousands of miles on our used cars relatively inexpensively. Example: Got our 01 Prizm 6 years ago at 56,000 miles. Paid about $7000. We now have 173000 miles on it (and still going strong) and have put maybe $2000 into it tops plus normal maintenance. A new Corolloa would have put us out much more than that. I’m just the opposite — I probably will never buy a new car ever again.
I bought it from my mechanic. Now I'm wondering if he knows what problems the car will have and knows that his future is secure with the car he sold me.
We’ve been buying new for past 20 years except my recent 16 y.o. daughters vehicle, NOT gonna do it. We always buy @ or below dealer invoice and last one at 0% plus rebate too.
Brother in TX just bought his wife a new F-250, was 38K sticker and he picked it up for 20K. Not bad.
They never had deals “that good” here in my state.
Well, if it seemed like a good deal then (and you at least checked it out a bit that it drives and rides and steers and stops ok for you) it is still a good deal now.
I bought it from my mechanic. Now I'm wondering if he knows what problems the car will have and knows that his future is secure with the car he sold me.
Now you're talking paranoid buyer's remorse stuff. Actually if he sold you a lemon you would go to anyone but him and tell everyone you could about the lemon he sold you...
Thats what he told me and as I said, I’ve known him and been buying cars from him for quite a while. He has no reason to lie.
Hopefully that’s the case. I oversee hundreds of total loss vs. repair decisions yearly for a major insurance carrier and have done so for over 30 years. The damage as described would not result in a vehicle being declared a total loss by any insurance company with whom I’ve worked. That being said, you can get good transportation with a rebuilt total if you are knowledgeable about the extent of damage and what repair processes were utilized to get the car back on the road.
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