Id say that the advertising would *work*, but the drawbacks would be too much for you to seriously consider it. The police auctions are a waste of time.
Id say that the advertising would *work*, but the drawbacks would be too much for you to seriously consider it. The police auctions are a waste of time.
Sell drugs and start ur own pimping business. Then u can go about the american dream by buying ur own car.
Why do you quickly categorize them as a waste of time? Even compared to something like autotrader, one would assume there would be a smaller bidding public, on cars that are GOING to be sold, no matter what the cost... That should rank it above any auto sale website..
Your area is probably better than mine. I spent something like 4 months looking for my first car when I was 16 and foreign cars are extremely rare here, especially the $2-5k Honda or Toyota, because people would buy them up quick, privately at least, because dealers are way too expensive.
Anyway if you can get a Civic with < 100k for $4k I consider that pretty damn good. Cars like that, well any decent build car, that's mid 90s will run to 200k if its been taken care of. If you don't wanna get a < 1k beater (I can see why, you already got one, gotta upgrade a LITTLe eh
) then something that's about 3k will still be reliable. ANY car is gonna need repairs. I was pretty sad when I spent $400 a couple of times on my car, plus $200 for a distributor, plus all normal maintenance, so we'll say my $2500 car cost me another $1500-$2000 over 3 years. I could've just've well bought a $5k car and still have to plunk $1500 in repairs over the years.
I guess I'm rambling... I'm just suggesting to get something cheaper that you can almost buy outright. Research the car, have some savvy look at it before buying. I do believe there is quite a lot of < $3k cars out there that are reliable.
edit: Forget that advertising car, that sounds very schiesty. I don't know personally about police auctions but sometimes there's a reason things are so cheap. Look at the cars outside collission shops, yeah maybe its a 2000 for $5k, but the thing is prolly fvcked. Hit the newspapers and find a person or couple who can tell you something about their cars, whether or not they took care of it, changed the oil, etc.. The family I bought my car from was very nice and up front and by the ways its lasted, they took good care of it (I became the 2nd owner only, at 130k miles!).
Anyway if you can get a Civic with < 100k for $4k I consider that pretty damn good. Cars like that, well any decent build car, that's mid 90s will run to 200k if its been taken care of. If you don't wanna get a < 1k beater (I can see why, you already got one, gotta upgrade a LITTLe eh
) then something that's about 3k will still be reliable. ANY car is gonna need repairs. I was pretty sad when I spent $400 a couple of times on my car, plus $200 for a distributor, plus all normal maintenance, so we'll say my $2500 car cost me another $1500-$2000 over 3 years. I could've just've well bought a $5k car and still have to plunk $1500 in repairs over the years.I guess I'm rambling... I'm just suggesting to get something cheaper that you can almost buy outright. Research the car, have some savvy look at it before buying. I do believe there is quite a lot of < $3k cars out there that are reliable.
edit: Forget that advertising car, that sounds very schiesty. I don't know personally about police auctions but sometimes there's a reason things are so cheap. Look at the cars outside collission shops, yeah maybe its a 2000 for $5k, but the thing is prolly fvcked. Hit the newspapers and find a person or couple who can tell you something about their cars, whether or not they took care of it, changed the oil, etc.. The family I bought my car from was very nice and up front and by the ways its lasted, they took good care of it (I became the 2nd owner only, at 130k miles!).
Concerning cars, does anyone think it would be a good idea to buy a honda with 200,000 miles over? I am a poor college student too...
^^^^^ If it's less than $1k, and the people have paperwork showing whats been done to the car.. Majors things like timing belts, and uh whatever else. I'm sure a lot of people on here even can vouch for Hondas that are at 250k+ miles. Hard to tell with every car, but it definitely isn't rare to run good over 200k.
I guess I'm the lucky one here. I got my dream car when I was a senior in HS. Took a buttload of working when I was younger (started saving towards it when I was 13). Now I'm a freshmen in high school. It's all about priorities really. Do like cars? Do you want a nice car? Or do you want just a cheap reliable one? Answer these questions before you make a decision. Are you willing to make payments? How much are you willing to dish out per month and for how long? Do you have any other expenses? Acutally a better question is do you have a gf?
No, there are plenty of cars that reach $300k with good care and a little luck. But I wouldn't pay for a car with over $150k. You might be lucky, but you never know if it was abused on say the 3rd or 4th owner for the last few 1k miles.
It'll be around $1,000 and I have a friend who's selling it to me. If I did get the repair history what should I look for?
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You know there are some decent cars out there for the price your looking at. Granted they will probably not be Toyota or Honda, but they are decent cars. Autotrader.com came up with several Chevy Malibus for under $7000 each with less than 70k miles. I'm sure you can do the same with Dodge Neons or Stratus, Ford Taurus and Focus, Kia, hyundai. You should be able to find something that's in your price range and not a piece of hud.
My friend bought a 1991 Caddilac DeVille for $1700 from a DEALER. It had 147k miles on it, but only one owner. The thing was ROCK solid. It has never failed on him. I've worked on it before and it's a great car. A few quirks here and there but the engine runs.
Found a 1997 eclipse, 80,000 miles on it for about $3.9k, going to look at it at the next avaliable opportunity (local)
I still am debating if police auction database would be worthwhile
I still am debating if police auction database would be worthwhile
Originally posted by: rmrf
http://www.intellichoice.com/reports/ve...996/make/Mercury/model/Grand%20Marquis
isn't that the car? I'm not sure of all the people that say it's a GM, but it is a Mercury which is a product of Ford.
just thought I'd inform. if that's not the car, ignore me
Grand Marquis.
Lies, Ornery says these are the best cars on the road. Don't let him see this post, he will ban you.
You should do what everyone else does, go into debt to somebody.
Id also add to that that you are obviously also competing with used car dealers who are going to bid on anything they can make money off of - essentially anything worth buying. At best you will probably get it for a few hundred bucks under what a dealer would charge - without the warranty and any sort of guarantee that it wont break down the second you drive it off the lot. You are better off buying private party. If you want a good deal, just lowball or talk every single person down on craigslist. More than you think will bite.
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