Runswithscissors
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Reged: 05/29/04
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I've had an explorer that had 180K miles on it.. never had any trouble.... never took it in to be serviced..... I had an excursion that I sold 4 years ago with 100K... again.. no troubles...... My family is a ford family... my dad always drove the biggest ford van for the airstream, my mother always drove a lincoln town car..... I had a ford mustang in HS.. (after the corvair) and my ex drove mustangs, F150s and bronco's.. my hubby drives a bronco... NONE of which ever had trouble...
I made the first leap over to a Honda 4 years ago.. and it's a good car.. no troubles on it.. it's approaching 100K now.
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Debi
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Reged: 06/03/05
Posts: 7135
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Kelly blue book will give you a retail value but don't expect to get that much. A private person can rarely sell their vechile for retail price and it's worth even less as a trade in unless the dealer is going to make a good buck on the back end with financing. Then he can make it look like he's giving you a lot more on paper.
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When we were together, you said you'd die for me. Now, I think it's time you kept your promise.
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gr8Dad
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Reged: 06/07/04
Posts: 30195
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...the last five cars O have had were dodges, NOTHING goes wrong, less expensive, sit higher, and tell me that the new Nitro isn't the BADDEST looking SUV out there...
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Why give a "senior" discount, they have had plenty of time to raise the money...
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Miranda
Carpal \'Tunnel
Reged: 06/02/05
Posts: 20822
Loc: North of Mexico
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My neighbor's daughter just got one of those Nitro's and it is really cute. Like a smaller Cherokee...
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katiefedup
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Reged: 10/26/05
Posts: 11669
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yeah they are cute not badddd asss looking
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jil_stevens
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Reged: 07/31/06
Posts: 3893
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It's just BF's hobby, thankfully:) It takes up enough space without being a career! He prefers just engine work, he has a friend with a machine shop and he does some side work building race engines, but does body work for his own restorations.
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M5M5
Carpal \'Tunnel
Reged: 07/29/05
Posts: 11722
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Well we have a dodge grand caravan and I would like nothing more than to go outside and shoot it full of holes :P Seriously, it was a good lil van for the first few years. Now anything and everything goes wrong with it and can't keep it from breaking down every few months. It totally sucks not to have anything dependable. Been having nightmares about being w/o a vehicle and DH having to hitch to work (faaaaaaaar away). ugh.
Cavaliers suck too. My first one I got when I was 19 and it blew a head (or something like that). This one hasn't done that yet but I'm just waiting. Everything else has went wrong with it. My mom has one and it's always got one problem or another.
I've heard saturns were pretty good..anyone know anything about saturns?
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almostheaven
Carpal \'Tunnel
Reged: 07/13/04
Posts: 10468
Loc: West Virginia
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You know you say you put more than that in with repairs, so you're talking probably AT LEAST $100/mo. in repairs. There was a local dealer here that ran an add for push/pull in guaranteed trade-in, $77 down and $77/mo. I think these were used vehicles, but still...if you're spending over $100/mo. in repairs, it may be worth it to look into trading in on a more recent used vehicle. Plus...you getting anything back in taxes? It's close to that time and that could always help with a vehicle too.
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Char Fox
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almostheaven
Carpal \'Tunnel
Reged: 07/13/04
Posts: 10468
Loc: West Virginia
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Found on road dead. ;)
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Char Fox
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almostheaven
Carpal \'Tunnel
Reged: 07/13/04
Posts: 10468
Loc: West Virginia
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that's what rearended me. Ripped my car to shreds. Didn't even scratch the bastid's bumber. :(
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Char Fox
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