I failed at Marriage 101...at least when it comes to Car buying

[PricklyPete]

Op, just be prepared to be beat over the head every argument you have. Rational thoughts and wives cannot coexist in the same universe 🙁

I'm starting to learn this... 🙂

 

[sdifox]

I'm starting to learn this... 🙂

Well, hopefully your wife is not as forgetful as mine.

cliff

look at car, wife likes C350 4Matic
me being value concious (cheap) look online and find a E350 4Matic with same mileage and year from Illinois for similar coinage
me (and buddy) drive E350 back to Toronto
Wife complains it's too big
me lose job
wife make me sell Protege5 because she believes insurance will be cheaper with only one car, not knowing it's the driver (me) that makes insurance expensive.
I drive around in E350, costing a lot in fuel compared to P5, insurance is only 150 cheaper per year.
I get yelled at for driving her car around.

She doesn't remember she is the one who insisted I get rid of P5 despite my attempt at explaining logic to her.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Where in California are you going to end up?

 

[njmodi]

...
look at car, wife likes C350 4Matic
me being value concious (cheap) look online and find a E350 4Matic with same mileage and year from Illinois for similar coinage
me (and buddy) drive E350 back to Toronto
...

I didn't think you could take cars from the USA into Canada and register them there...? Care to elaborate? I'd like to help buy a car for someone in Toronto - but I'm not up there... so I'd like to buy one in the USA and take it up for them too...

 

[sdifox]

I didn't think you could take cars from the USA into Canada and register them there...? Care to elaborate? I'd like to help buy a car for someone in Toronto - but I'm not up there... so I'd like to buy one in the USA and take it up for them too...

Of course you can. You are basically importing a car yourself. There are restrictions of course, but it is far easier for you to check out the car, do the leg work and they do the actual trasaction, then they can just fly down to drive it back up. Less hassle at the border that way.

start from this website

http://www.importcartocanada.info/

but pay special attention now since a lot of the car companies adjusted the Canadian prices so it may not be much of a saving. Really depends on what you are getting.

 

[njmodi]

Of course you can. You are basically importing a car yourself. There are restrictions of course, but it is far easier for you to check out the car, do the leg work and they do the actual trasaction, then they can just fly down to drive it back up. Less hassle at the border that way.

start from this website

http://www.importcartocanada.info/

but pay special attention now since a lot of the car companies adjusted the Canadian prices so it may not be much of a saving. Really depends on what you are getting.

Thanks! This is really useful... As for cost - I'd be buying something relatively used - it's just easier to car shop locally for something used - than go from one dealer to the next out there.

 

[PricklyPete]

Where in California are you going to end up?

Likely Santa Cruz or San Jose.

 

[PricklyPete]

For what it is worth, this last weekend of test driving, laying out all of the numbers and realizing that it just didn't make sense to get rid of the Audi seems to have settled my wife. She seems much happier with the car now even if she still doesn't like that it is perceived as a premium brand by her peers. It has also re-adjusted my anal nature toward the car. So overall a win-win...or so it seems.