Jesus FUCK why do cars have to be so fucking expensive?? >$1500

Sounds like you bought a shitbox

$1500 total for shitbox
$500 for tools
Monthly payments of $50 to vatozone
Much cheaper m8

>>17445167
its not even a shitbox, its just some soccer mom's trade in that she drove until the tires were bald and fucking everything was due.

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>>17445189
>it's not a shitbox
>proceeds to describe what very well sounds like a shitbox
What did he mean by this?

>>17445206
well once this bullshit is taken care of I should be carefree for the next 100k miles or so. In my mind a shitbox is a shitbox because it requires constant maintenance

>>17445189

And you were the dumbshit that bought it.

>>17445151
>$1500 down on a used car
holy crap, what was the total cost and monthly payment?

>>17445237
say that to my face not online motherfucker and see what happens. My last car shit out unexpectedly and after bumming rides to and from work for 2 weeks this was the first place with something that:
1) was in my price range <10k
2)wasn't going to embarrass me to drive
3)would finance someone with no money and no credit

maybe i couldve done better, but I could've done much worse also

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>>17445234
>once I fix these known problems on a car that was driven into the ground by a neglectful owner everything will be fine!

I remember my first car too.

>>17445286
>'08 forester
>$8,000 total including some wheel/tire insurance and GAP coverage that I got jewed into taking
>$136/month @ 9.8%

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>>17445151
>buying used

>>17445299
fuck man don't put that evil on me

>>17445290
>financing 10k
kys. should've just gotten a civic for 3k.

>>17445311
how many months?

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>>17445311
>5 years on a $8k loan
>@10%

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>>17445311

>>17445324
60 months, but I'm trying to have it paid off sooner

>>17445311
>buying a memebaru
wtf are you going to do when the engine grenades in a year or two or you need to do the head gaskets? you dun goofed.

>>17445316
My first car purchase was pure retardation, but it was the perfect baptism by fire to get me somewhat knowledgeable about cars.
>2001 Jeep Grand Cherokee (WJ) 4.7L
>engine overheated; cast block, aluminum heads, pls don't overheat ever
>had to do an entire rebuild
Jeeps are great to work on because the online community is 10/10 for information, so it wasn't so bad considering the most I'd done on auto work before that was changing my dad's oil a couple times. I don't own that WJ anymore, but it's still around and going strong it seems. Gave it a second life, and I imagine it's pushing 300k now.

>>17445313
>>17445324
>>17445329
wtf should I have done then?? I didn't have any money or credit and needed a fucking car

>>17445353
Should've had family to buy you a car or let you borrow/share one. You only would've had to share while you saved up for another grand for a $2500 civic.

>>17445353

Anon, do you have zero family? Like, none at all? No one that can smack you upside the fucking head? Financing a 10 year old car is pants on head retarded. You can get a low mileage Fiesta, Focus, Corolla for around $10k. Thats like $50 a month more. Hory shet. Hell, right now you can get a brand fucking new Fiesta for 10k. They have a fuck huge discount on them right now.

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>>17445360
>implying

>>17445353
>needed a fucking car
For what, work? Get a local job.

>>17445368
i thought about something like that but i like going on camping trips. also i didn't want to spend that much money on something I thought was gay as fuck like a fiesta or honda fit or something

>>17445151
>new timing belt $900+
what is it a performance timing belt?

>>17445384
>gay
Yeah its much more manlier begging people for rides as you pay intrest on a loan for a car thats broke down.

>awd maymay
Unless you are going somewhere seriously off the beaten path like the backwoods of africa you dont need awd.

>>17445385
>what is it a performance timing belt?
a scam

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>>17445311
>9.8%

>>17445174
this desu

op you are a faggot
do the work yourself

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>>17445378
fucking what? My commute is like 10 miles accross town and I work in an office. It would be like an hour and a half bike ride in the assuming I didn't get dindu'd on the way(a very real possibility in memphis) and once I got there id need a shower and a change of clothes.
>"cant make it to work? just quit and get a new job somewhere closer bro"
what the fuck kind of McDonald's tier job do you work that would make that a reasonable suggestion?

>>17445392
>awd is a meme
>implying I don't leave the pavement
>implying anything 2wd that's heavier than a smart car won't get stuck in wet grass

keep it up m8

>>17445461
Negro, I used to live in the country,. Used a 4cyl, S10 to haul a 2k gallon water tank on a trailer. The nearest paved road to my house was about 3 miles away. Dont talk to me about the necessity of AWD because it isnt needed.

>>17445461
>inb4 transfer box breaks

>>17445151
Find a good shop that doesn't rape you.

>>17445498
i bet you didn't pull that trailer over any wet grass

>>17445461
Stay in debt and denial faggot.

>>17445151
Just got off the phone with one of my mechanics, $2300 for annual servicing.
That basically means changing the oil and filters.

>>17445546
Are you seriously saying that you have been defeated by grass?

>>17445560
that's fucking ridiculous. People pay that without asking questions?

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>>17445570
>asking questions
You can ask, but it doesn't really matter.
They can charge whatever, and if you want to maintain continuity of servicing at their official center (for resale), you don't have much of a choice.
I'd do minor stuff somewhere else, without a doubt.

>>17445563
lol not me but my friend buried his s10 almost to the axle trying to turn around on the front lawn of a church. Personally I've had to throw my floormats under the tires to get my explorer moving up a *slight* hill and like 2 inches of mud

>>17445543
This desu. I take mine to a Mexican garage with a rotary on display as a badge of their mechanical prowess. Those guys can work wonders and do it for a fair price.

>>17445598
Yea, It's hard to find a good shop but I just found one last week. Feels good man. Dealerships are out to rape you but they can't help it due to their huge overhead. Hole-in-the-wall joints are the way to go. Also this time of year shops tend to be slower so they tack on needless work to fill slots.

OP Ill do your timing belt any day for $250. You buy the parts.
Or get jewed. Up to you.

>>17445344
I'm sure you know by now that the 4.0 was the better set up. V8 WJ are pigs.

>>17445151
>>17445151
>$650 for 4 new tires+alignmen
>Timing belt $900
>getting this jewed
Now you tell us what car you bought, what tires you bought and how much timing belt costed you.

>>17445151
In other words you are just a retard that buys overpriced shit.

>>17445435
>10 miles
>hour and a half bike ride
What the fuck? How much do you weigh?

>>17445461
Owner of a 4400lb 2wd open-diff pickup here, have owned for 2 years, through Michigan winters with no weight in the back, on "dirt" roads (actually just 2in thick ice), and still have yet to get stuck.

Any halfway decent driver doesn't need awd.

>>17446937
5'10" 165lbs. How about a 1 hour bike ride? Does that suit you better? Sorry i used hyperbole on 4chan

>>17448119
>5'10" 165lbs
Youre a fatshit.

>>17445151
>hurrrr buying new carz is dumb guiz, Dat depreciation.

>buys used car and dumps the difference in depreciation back into maintenance.

>>17446923
where can I go to get sicc dealz? because you cant haggle with firestone and $150 per tire for tires with a 70k mile lifespan seems pretty fair.

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>>17445151

I bought me a '98 Civic in April for $1500 flat and that shit is still running clean as fuck.

>>17448123
im really not though.. if i was a big enough faggot to save confused anime girl pics i would post one right now.

>>17448134
walmart does tires cheap af. 4 tires for like $250

>>17445174

I don't know shit about cars

do they let you use the pits/lifts or whatever at autozone if you pay 50 bucks a month

>>17448033
well what the fuck am I doing wrong? too much gas.. not enough?

>>17445353
>I didn't have any money or credit
>spends 8,000 on a car

bruh you could have had yourself a clean ass CRX and made all the fags on /o/ jelly

8000 is more than I'd ever spend on a car and your broke ass went into debt for a shitbox

>>17446765
can you write me a how-to real quick? maybe some ms paint illustrations?

>>17445313
>buying new
Have fun dealing with recalls.
>>17445151
Should have bought something rugged off Craigslist from a jaded Gen X-er.

>>17448164
fuck you, i'm not broke. i'll have this whore paid off in like 3 years tops and by that time will have addressed all of its bullshit. and then ill just own a reliable car outright

>>17448187
>fuck you, i'm not broke

I was literally quoting your retarded ass,

>I didn't have any money or credit

all I said was that 8,000 is too much for a car in your position

there's a CRX in my area I've been eyefucking for 4400 and your dumb ass dropped twice that on a gay ass forester

>>17448149
are they rated for 70,000 miles?

>>17448194
Not cash though. OP is a faggot that didn't have 4k to his name.

>>17448187
>memebaru
>reliable
pick one.

>>17448198
no they're shitty gook tires. buy michelins or nothing.

>>17448199

he'd still be fine financing a personal loan for like 2 grand

>>17445311
>10 years old subarust
>8 GRANDS
>NINE DAWT EIGHT PERCENT
Wtf OP. Did you never stop a moment and ask yourself if you are doing the right thing?

Just sell it, get rid of it. The 2.5 engine is garbage.

As much as I love them cars are a pretty stupid investment.

Are you broke or cheap? Save up some cash and buy a used econobox and drive it till the wheels fall off.

>>17448198
>believing merchants claims
Your fucking car won't last half of that, you homo.

Oy vey goyim! Don't work on the car yourself, you fuck shit up!

https://reading.craigslist.org/cto/6182323489.html

look at this sweet riced out CRX you could have had OP

>>17445311
>9.8%

If you're in the United States, this is rubbish.

Anywhere else and it would be quite good.

>>17448194
man if I had 5k in my pocket i would have done something like that too. i make 500 a week but don't save shit.


also it'll look less gay once i get a roof rack..

>>17445151
>buying a car with old tires right before it needs the timing belt done

well done

>>17448230

then why didn't you just cop a cheap ass civic

>>17448229
9.8 is hooknose ursury everywhere in the civilized world.

too late for us to help you now faggot

>>17448186
>Have fun dealing with recalls.
oh god they'll replace something for free one day, holy shit the horror

>>17448233
i didnt know!!!

>>17448237
i really like the 4door layout with a tray in the back and seats that fold flat desu

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>>17448253

used car dealers are way fucking sketchier than CL in my experience

>>17448253
You bought a 10 years old lesbobox and expect it to be trouble free?

You should have bought a 3k civic or 3k suburban if you wanted something reliable.

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>>17448240

>>17448257

let me blow your mind for a second, it would have been cheaper to get a civic and rent a uhaul twice a year

>>17448257
I can fold the rear seats in my civic and fit in a 6ft ladder. you're doing it wrong.

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>>17445461
AWD is a meme for real. I drove a 2500HD 2WD in Yukon and passed subarus stuck in ditches.

>>17445329
Clearly you don't understand how loans work.

Your rate will be the same between 12-60 months, and loans are simple interest.

If you overpay, it goes towards the principle effectively allowing yourself to reduce the interest charge.

But you totally knew that

>>17448298
>OP admits he makes 1K a month
>OP admits he has shit credit and lives in memphis
>He will totally pay it all early!!
GO OP GO, DEFEAT THE EVIL MERCHANTS

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>get to pick my first car at age 16
>perfectly functioning '08 Pontiac G5 in 2010 with like 30k miles or whatever
>gets hit and runned twice while parked in 2013 and 2014
>all been downhill since repairs
>power steering failure in the middle of driving
>back left wheel jamming during a u-turn on a busy road
>AC breaking in a Texas summer

So, how are Hondas and Hyundais these days? I have this feeling in the back of my mind that my car's just going to die on the way to work, possibly in flames.

>>17448308
Almost forgot
>OP will need to dump 3k a year in repairs

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all of you fucking morons saying he couldn't have bought a car for 3-5 grand are forgetting that he's already spending that on repairs

>paying for timing belt
Nigga I winged it and changed my own timing belt on the weekend and it turned out fine. That shit isn't even hard you can google it.

>>17448308
Things could change. There's a reason he got a high rate though.

>>17448333
>He never worked on a subaru

>buys a shitbox that is actually shit
Kek fucking meltdown

>>17448337
You have high hopes for OP. But as a rule of thumb someone that dumps more than 50% of his annual income on a car over 5 years at 10% is just digging deeper.

>>17448361
I work in auto finance. He's a bog. Guarantee he is financed through flagship as well

>>17448119
What the fuck kind of noodle armed sissy cd thinks that 165lbs at 5'10" is fat for an adult male?

>>17448308
>>17448325
>to retard a:
$500/week is $2k/month
>directed towards retard b:
while i may have spent that much over the course of a few months, i have never had it all in my pocket at once

>>17448261
>3k suburban if you wanted something reliable.
Man I'm dealing with some shit after buying a suburban for 4k. Almost regret it from time to time, but I'm sure getting over the initial problems things will smooth out and I should be able to get well over 200k in this thing. I hope.

>>17448428
suburbans are fucking sick. never regret it anon, youll miss it once its gone.

>>17448123
>5'10" 165lbs
>fatshit
5'7" 180lbs here, confirming that 5'10" 165lbs is not fatshit-tier. I've got three less inches and 15 extra pounds, and just barely the start of a belly.

>>17448240
In Australia, 9.8% is extremely low for a car loan. That's what you would get if you had outstanding credit. Average credit would get you around 14%, bad credit would be flat out loan denial.

inb4
>Australia
>civilized

>>17448445
I'll stop feeling sour when I figure out where the fuck that occasional and ugly sounding grinding is coming from.

>>17448461
So what you're saying is everyone in 'Straya just pays cash, right? 9.8% is basically theft.

>>17448298
>>17448337
thanks for believing in me, tripfriend

>>17448459
i think we're just built like adult men, and that anon is like 5'8" 120

>>17448482
Reverse the roles goyim.
Would you make a long term risky investment at returns close to inflation?
No.
If I'm loaning you money, 10% would be the minimum I'd consider loaning it at.

>>17445151
thats fuck all

try spending thousands on a shitbox

10k+

>>17446885
True. However how I set it up when rebuilding it I gave the exhaust a mean crackle, so it's still the best sounding vehicle I've owned. This is also the main way I know which one running around town was mine, as there's several that look the same and the guy that owns it is pretty rev happy.

>>17448374
wells fargo. and how am i a bog?

>>17445189

>traded in when all the maintenance was due

>"not a shitbox"

it's a shitbox m8

Post pictures of said Forester OP, they are great when maintained and serviced appropriately. Have you had spark plugs replaced? if not do that and have a compression/Leakdown test done.

>>17448533
People get stuck in their child hood.
So a shitbox to him will eternally be a 1980 something economy car.

>>17448541
no pics but thanks for the advice!

>>17448428
Most suburbans reach 250-300k miles on CL and leave this world with a rotten through frame. What trouble do you have? There are a few common issues easy to fix

>>17448581
make sure to do both at same time, do you have a mom and pop shop you go to or where do you get the work done?

>>17448482
>9.8% is basically theft.
A lot of people here don't really see it that way, because it's always been like that or higher.

A lot more people here do tend to buy outright though, or they put a hefty deposit down (like half the value of the car or more). And people don't generally buy new cars here unless they're reasonably wealthy, so you see a lot of older cars on the road here.

My parents went to the US late last year for a holiday, mainly just traveled the south west (CA, NV, and AZ). One of the things they found the most remarkable about the US was that the percentage of NEW, as in <5 year old cars you see on the road was so much higher than here.

>>17448601
Doesn't the government understand that easy loans stimulate the economy and force people to buy big v8 holden and fords? They can tax the fuel after bought by loaned money.

>>17448420
>dont judge me on my financial mistakes reeeeeeeee
Nice meltdown

>>17448420

if you've had the ability to pay that much over the course of a few months then you would have had the ability to save it over the course of a few months prior to buying your car.

>>17445384
Wtf the fit is patrician as fuck

>>17448632
The government here doesn't have particularly good foresight. Fuel is already taxed quite highly here, not Yurop level expensive but if you converted the way we measure it to the American way, it works out to be about $4.50 US per gallon.

I've actually asked someone who works at a bank about it, apparently what it comes down to is the level of regulation and laws associated with lending here. Makes it impossible for banks to compete and lend at rates below the 8.5% mark, for anything other than a mortgage.

>>17448153
50 a month in replaxement parts for shit that breaks

>>17445174
Do you mold your own tires or something?

>mint 09 Black Honda Civic LX
>120k miles but clean carfax
>$600 down
>$7k total with power-train warranty over 6 years @2.2%

about to get new tires and i was wondering, if youre getting seasonal tires and your current ones are still good, do any places store them for you? I have no where to keep an extra set

7k car
yearly $700 rego
yearly $700 3rd party insurance
$300 ac repair that left me with a shattered AC compressor pulley, $500 clutch replacement.

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>>17449493
Have you considered renting an apartment or buying a house

>>17448521
10 percent interest rate on an old car. That's the definition of sub prime.

How's your FICO? Also at that price you need gap insurance.

>>17448683
what? I was just correcting those two retarded gentlmen. God bless

>>17448694
except I couldn't forego having a car for a few months. What are you neckbeard fucks not getting about that?

>>17449482
did your rich parents co-sign or something?

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$900 for a fucking belt... I hope that comes with a tensioner?

Is it not possible to do it yourself?

And also; why are you complaining about needing four new tires? Shouldn't you be able to see that they were worn/worn unevenly when buying if it needed new ones in just a month?

>>17449929
yeah got quoted around $900 for the whole timing belt assembly. Pulleys, tensioners, etc. I was looking at trying to do it myself but it looks a little involved for a wrench virgin like me. And I knew I was gonna need new tires, i just kind of wanted to bitch desu..

>>17448506
5 foot 7 and built like a man. Kek anyone under 5 10 and 170lbs is cuck tier. But you arent fat ill give u that im 6 2 200lbs and i have like a 4 pack

>>17445151
$900 for a timing belt? Jesus fucking christ m8