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Last year my Ranger blew up on me and all I had to my name was about $500 and a motorcycle. I d gone through a string of bad cars and decided to go the new route, trading in the motorcycle (it was impossible to sell, no bites) and getting air travel deals canada a 2011 Honda Fit. It s a great car, and as it s brand new, has needed no maintenance. I m now making a loan payment of $230, with an extra $60 in insurance.
air travel deals canada One of the reasons I didn t get a loan for a used car was that the used car market here in Oregon is particularly awful. It seems that the cheap, well-maintained $3000 Honda Civics and Toyota Corollas with 110k on them from five years ago are all gone (or not up for sale).
Indeed, even as prices for used cars go up into the $8k range (and beyond), it seems the cars just get later in model year, but not higher air travel deals canada in actual quality with attention to proper care and so forth. For the most part, my experience has been that the used car market air travel deals canada here has dried up. You have a choice of cars, all with 140k on them and in various states of disrepair, your only choice is how expensive and what year you want. I kid you not, there was a local craigslist ad here in town for a 1987 Toyota Camry Wagon that said $5200 FIRM on it. Oh, goodness.
I ve put the Fit online, and have some bites but I have no idea if I want to sell it or not. The idea is to come out with around $5000 in cash, spend $4000 on a car and keep $1000, plus the added benefit of around $300 in savings each month. I have a couple of questions for you.
There is nothing wrong with paying off a loan and enjoying 10+ years of no payments. Throw in 30+ mpg s, minimal maintenance for a lot of that long haul, and a past track record for exceptional reliability, and it looks like you have finally found yourself a keeper.
I realize that it s tough to read an enthusiast site and buy nothing for 10 years plus. On the other hand, the Fit fills in a nice niche that was partially occupied by the Mazda Protege 5 back in 2002.
Steve nailed it: you need to focus on your sanity. Reselling a car for your payoff+profit asking price isn t gonna work smoothly.  I guess if you wait long enough, the right buyer will come along but that s not a healthy air travel deals canada outlook.
I ve heard that the sky-high, 2-5 year old used car market is letting up a little air travel deals canada bit in some urban areas, but will it last?  I have too much uncertainty in the economy, political elections or not.  And if the economy gets worse, used cars are a better air travel deals canada option. Combined with the, um, automotive density air travel deals canada of Oregon (relative to my Houston habitat) air travel deals canada and that you want an inflated(?) asking price/profit margin for your Fit, I can t give you the answers you wanna hear for questions 1 and 2.
Yeah, this is an enthusiast site but many of the enthusiasts here are realists first and enthusiasts second (which is probably the way to be unless you are financially very secure or have serious mechanic skills). You will find that plenty of us have the Don t Laugh, It s Paid For bumper stickers on our cars.
My Nissan cube still has the wheels on it. I m going to drive it till they fall off. Almost 60K miles and still have the original front tires. I agree with the above advice. I m in an almost identical situation and find it very very comfortable. Your fit has to be as good as my Nissan and thinking back through the years (driving for about 55 years) that s a good place to be.
It s even more advantageous to do it with cash: note how much more you pay in total even with small interest. However, there may be issues. For example, car may not be reliable enough to last 10 years. air travel deals canada I only drove 2 cars into the ground: a Neon and Galant. Neon lasted 9 years and I got rid of it when hydraulic valve adjuster air travel deals canada started ticking. Galant air travel deals canada lasted 12 years, but I wish I junked it sooner, considering how much I spent on repairs in its final year. I heard good things about Fit, but 10 years is pretty long, I dunno If it were a 1985 F-150, which is cheap to repair, it could last that long easily, when away from rust. But a compact like Fit, good as it is, does not instill that much confidence.
I know of too many small cars like the fit that have made it that far, provided it didn t turf an automatic before then. I took a 1983 Civic up to almost 183K, back in the late 90 s, and the ONLY reason air travel deals canada I sold it was it was rear ended, and while it still drove fine, it leaked water like a sieve inside and it grew mold in the back seat as it was damp all the time.
I got almost the same amount of miles on a bit larger 88 Honda Accord and, it too, was rear ended and I sold it due to the same issues, massive water leaks inside, wreaking havoc on the electricals, such as the power door locks, and the sunroof. It was also in need of some major TLC mechanically too, but it CAN be done, and I would wager than any modern small car will do the same.
I currently have 115K+ on a 2003 Mazda Protege5, air travel deals canada with the sport stick auto and it s been ticking air travel deals canada a long just fine for my first 6+ months of ownership. True, that s puppy miles, but it is rust free and in excellent shape and I expect it to last at least as long, or longer than either of the 2 above mentioned air travel deals canada Hondas.
In mechanical systems, every interface/operation has an inefficiency. In finance, every transaction has an innfficiency. Every time you buy sell something, you lose that little bit. Sure, sometimes you come out ahead, but like playing the house, the odds are strong air travel deals canada that you will just errode your money away.
If you have a loan, you will not walk away with much (if any) cash after selling. air travel deals canada There s a reason so many people roll over car loans. I checked AutoTrader, and I honestly believe a 5-yr-old, $3k, 110k mi, good used car doesn t exist (and probably never did). You never get more than you pay for, so a *cheap* used car will almost cause you to bleed out. The difference between that and a car loan is that after you are done pumping money into the loan, you have a car that you can drive for another 10 yrs.
If you have a car that is still nice, meets your needs, works reliably, is cheap to operate, dear-God-WHY would you want to replace it with something that isn t as nice, isn t as reliable, and is more expensive to operate? (That s what you ll get buying used in that price range.)
Bought a 2007 fit with 25K km last year. Super expensive, but that s the market we are in. Doesn t matter though, I love the little thing: I get around 40 mpg for my long, highway based commute; spend nothing on maintenance; can fit most Ikea furniture air travel deals canada on it. Now I ve been showing the city to my in-laws so the car is completely full, including my son in his car seat. No sweat, comfortable air travel deals canada enough for all the trips. We will be driving to Seattle soon and will spend a few days. There is no need to rent a larger car. My only regret is having bought the DX version. I miss electric locks.
Yours Fit works with the child seat? Neither my wife or I can sit in front of ours (rear facing) without air travel deals canada having the front seat completely, uncomfortably, upright. We do have the 2nd gen version, but right now it looks like we need to sell it in order to keep our family needs to one necessary vehicle per trip. Although, both of us are 6 2 . Kind of sucks as this car was supposed to be the keeper, and our next car was to be another toy.
Looking around the only other wagon-ish option seems to be the Jetta wagon, everything else is a piss poor version of a compact car on stilts (all CUV s we/she air travel deals canada test drove) or only comes with automatic transmissions, which neither of us will spend our money on. On a side note, yes, every CUV we drove absolutely sucked, even the VW and the Ford. I couldn t find her a CX-5 to test, but our experience so far is leading us to the never camp for that vehicle class.
I had the EXACT same problem with my 07 Fit. We had one of those convertible car seat/infant carriers. I think it was Safety 1st? Anyway, the thing was massive and would ONLY install directly behind air travel deals canada the passenger seat. In the middle, which is statistically the safest place to install even though you can t use LATCH, my seat was so far forward air travel deals canada I simply couldn t drive. Behind the passenger seat was the only option, which also meant any time we took my car (wife has an 02 Camry which has none of these issues), her knees were in her chin.
I finally had enough and got a Britax Marathon from Amazon. It s rear and forward facing, but most importantly has a VERY small footprint on the seat. Even rear facing (which we moved out of a month ago), it allowed the passenger seat to move back almost 6 inches. Now that we re front facing, my wife has all the legroom she needs.
The moral is, explore your options before taking drastic action. You can spend $200 on a new seat and save yourself the expense of getting a new car. And rear facing is a short term situation a new car is definitely not.
I would absolutely agree, I m just not that flush with info on different seats. I ve tried two so far and both require air travel deals canada the seat to be upright when in the rear facing position. Thanks a ton for the recommendation, I ll check out the Britax.
She s annoyed at the Fit s legroom as is (their SAE measurements for legroom air travel deals canada as suspiciously air travel deals canada optimistic, same as a Jetta which means someone is doing it wrong or lying) so there s definitely an element of looking for a problem at play.
I THINK Babies R Us lets you test fit demo models? It might be worth your time to just try out a few different manufacturers. air travel deals canada We found that most of the convertible seats that use a detachable air travel deals canada base just will not work in the Fit.
I have to agree with the Chairman, Britax are also one of the highest rated