Plan B

[bertine]

I forgot to mention this when I posted about Zach not going into the Army. I have decided to still get a new car. If Hoopty hadn't been such a cheap car to start with or if he hadn't been hit by a bus and ran over a pipe on the interstate requiring a new oil pan thingy put in I might kept him. However, I am ready for a car that doesn't feel like it is about to fall apart at any moment.

I am pretty sure I am going to get a used car, one that is just a couple years old. However, I have no idea how to do this at all. I bought Hoopty from a friend of mine and this is the only car I have ever owned. I don't really think I have ever been to a car lot before. Any advice? Anyone want to go test drive a car with me? Any car suggestions? I like Sedans, I am thinking about the Mazda 6 but that isn't really based on anything.

Comments

[sterlingphoenix.livejournal.com]

I looooooove going to car dealerships. They like trying to play all these mind-games on you and it REALLY freaks them out when you turn the tables and mess with them.

I need to go get an oil change soon and I'm probably going to use this golden opportunity to mess with some sales people, who have been calling me and saying I should replace my ancient (read: one year old) car with a BRAND NEW CAR for THE SAME MONTHLY PAYMENT. Course when they drag me in there it'll be the same, you know, manufacturer, not the same MODEL, oh and I may as well get the LEATHER TRIM and the NAVIGATION SYSTEM and that'll cost more sure but JUST LOOK AT IT etc.

Course me going in there for an oil change breaks their thing where I made a special trip, and me yelling at them for the computer that runs the hybrid battery needing a firmware upgrade FOUR TIMES since I got the thing breaks their Being On The Winning Side thing.

Also, and this will be MUCH easier for you - when you sit down, be taller than them. They HATE that.

Also, you can get a new car. You're being shafted either way, you may as well get shafted with something that has a 3-year bumper-to-bumper warranty.

Get a Prius. You know you want to.

I kinda wish Saturn were still around - their sales people really WERE different than anywhere else.

Also have you been watching Doctor Who? Cause, damn.

[bertine.livejournal.com]

I have been thinking about getting a new one but I don't know. Sigh. It is too much thinking.

I have been watching. I am sort of unimpressed. I don't know why.

[sterlingphoenix.livejournal.com]

Well, a full warranty on a car is really important to me. Seriously, if ANYTHING happens to my car, they have to fix it for free. And having a semi-new technology car, that's come in VERY handy. Plus any modern car is more computers than anything and nobody really knows what the hell is going on with them. So I like warranties (:

I'm actually really really liking this season. I wasn't sure at first cause I thought Steven Moffat was just trying to scare the hell out of me. But then they had a lot of subtle stuff, and then they had that one scene in the angel show with the hey-you're-not-the-same-doctor-are-you thing.

[bertine.livejournal.com]

My only concern about a new car is that I live in a pretty crappy neighborhood with no garage.

I haven't noticed the subtle stuff, which is why I haven't been commenting on it. I usually like Steven Moffat's writing but I haven't been in the right mindset to really watch them.

[sterlingphoenix.livejournal.com]

It's not like you're thinking of getting a Jaguar or something. And apparently nobody steals car radios anymore because there's no money in it.

You've not been in the right mindset for months??? You should hold off on watching it for a bit. And then rewatch it (: