I have to hit the road and drive home from Oklahoma....would have been on the road 2 hrs ago if it wasn't for the family dragging ass
I have to hit the road and drive home from Oklahoma....would have been on the road 2 hrs ago if it wasn't for the family dragging ass
USAF - 1989-2011
That house I was at this morning probably needed you. We were looking for a roof leak and everything was tight and correctly installed. I just happened to look over the edge and saw a drain pipe just above the second story window. I asked if they had a humidifier and they did. I told them they needed to contact an HVAC guy.
"There are no finger prints under water."
After some basic calculations, I should be saving quite a bit of money with my car switch.
I project that the Xterra would cost me about $40,500 to own for the next 5 years (9,500 depreciation, 11400 gas, 15000 still owed in payments, 2500 insurance/registration, about about 2200 in tires and maintenance).
I project that the new car will cost me a maximum of $22,800 to own for the next 5 years (2,000 depreciation, 6600 gas, 4400 total purchase price+registration, 2200 insurance/registration, and an estimate of 5800 for tires and maintenance).
The Xterra numbers above are pretty accurate, but I priced everything for the new car pretty liberally. Depreciation, insurance, and registration will probably be a bit less than the numbers above, and I don't expect to dump $1000 every year on broken stuff... but even if I spend $2000 a year on unexpected maintenance, I'll still be about $13,000 ahead after 5 years. And all that is assuming that nothing would break on the Xterra and just about everything would break on the new car.
Last edited by HoneyBadger; 04-09-2016 at 11:10.
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Test drove an '05 Odyssey today with 98k on it. They sold the one with 83k last week. Have an appointment to have it looked at by a mechanic on Monday.
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"When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law." -Frederic Bastiat
"I am a conservative. Quite possibly I am on the losing side; often I think so. Yet, out of a curious perversity I had rather lose with Socrates, let us say, than win with Lenin."
― Russell Kirk, Author of The Conservative Mind
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"when you're happy you enjoy the melody but, when you're broken you understand the lyrics".
I actually would prefer to find an '05 with lower miles, like they just sold. I found it on a lot on Colfax. He wants almost twice what I want to pay, but I think I can get something done. He told me $11,900. I'm going to offer $7,000 cash and go from there.
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All this car talk, meh...My new Taco averaged 23.8 mpg from Steamboat Springs to Ft. Fun today, via Walden and hwy 14 to home. Looking forward to some fuel savings over the BMW X5 with the V8!
Averaging 31mpg with the sentra so I cant complain, especially when I can fill the tank for $20 with 91 octane