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Potential end to my car troubles!
14 years ago
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Alright, so after a very frustrating 3 weeks of having a car with a blown transmission, everything seems to have come together for me all at the same time. I was trying to sell my car for $1000 and got an offer for half that. While it's only half what I was hoping for, it's something I've settled on. Getting that in cash on tuesday or wednesday so that I can put that towards a downpayment for another car.
On THAT front, I have a really great prospect. I drove over to a lot about 30 minutes from my home town today to do some shopping and test drove a car. I don't really remember what it was because I didn't like it, so talking to the sales rep, his name was Dave, he told me they might have some up top that would fit my budget that I might like better, since I was looking in the lower 40 lot. He calls up to the regular sales place and gets a sales person on the phone. In talking with him he mentions to the guy "The kid's from ********, you know everyone from there, you might know him. His name is Tim ****. Oh, you do know him! Great, I'll send him your way!" Turns out he was the father of someone I graduated with and a daughter of his was a friend who I performed a few musicals with. I'm thinking "GREAT! I can trust this guy!"
We get to his office and start talking about a few cars he's got in my price range, but most of them were standards, which I don't know how to drive >_<
Then another rep walks past and Dan flags him down.
"Hey, have we got anything in recently that would be about 200 a month?"
"I just got a Taurus in an hour ago that might fit that rate, wanna look at it?"
Dan pulls the car around and I'm stunned! It's a 2005 that looks like it just came off the sales floor! And it only has 31k miles!! I take it for a test drive and it drives like a dream!! The woman who had it before just traded it in, she used it as a grocery getter and to go to church and that was it!
We get back and he tells me they could sell it to me for 8,999!!!! I filled out some financing paper work and now I'm just waiting to hear back from them about whether they can get me financed or not.
I'm really hoping this works out, the car couldn't be more perfect unless it was brand new.
*crosses fingers* here's hoping! *tailwags*
On THAT front, I have a really great prospect. I drove over to a lot about 30 minutes from my home town today to do some shopping and test drove a car. I don't really remember what it was because I didn't like it, so talking to the sales rep, his name was Dave, he told me they might have some up top that would fit my budget that I might like better, since I was looking in the lower 40 lot. He calls up to the regular sales place and gets a sales person on the phone. In talking with him he mentions to the guy "The kid's from ********, you know everyone from there, you might know him. His name is Tim ****. Oh, you do know him! Great, I'll send him your way!" Turns out he was the father of someone I graduated with and a daughter of his was a friend who I performed a few musicals with. I'm thinking "GREAT! I can trust this guy!"
We get to his office and start talking about a few cars he's got in my price range, but most of them were standards, which I don't know how to drive >_<
Then another rep walks past and Dan flags him down.
"Hey, have we got anything in recently that would be about 200 a month?"
"I just got a Taurus in an hour ago that might fit that rate, wanna look at it?"
Dan pulls the car around and I'm stunned! It's a 2005 that looks like it just came off the sales floor! And it only has 31k miles!! I take it for a test drive and it drives like a dream!! The woman who had it before just traded it in, she used it as a grocery getter and to go to church and that was it!
We get back and he tells me they could sell it to me for 8,999!!!! I filled out some financing paper work and now I'm just waiting to hear back from them about whether they can get me financed or not.
I'm really hoping this works out, the car couldn't be more perfect unless it was brand new.
*crosses fingers* here's hoping! *tailwags*
Enlightener
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I'll talk to you about this on messenger. I know you only posted this cause you couldn't talk to me about it and had to tell someone anyways :p
