thinking about pulling the trigger

[mozirry]

I have posted before about selling my truck but didn't want to because it is so useful and it's paid off, etc.

Current dilemma.

My silverado 1500 is in great shape, but its too big for me to drive/uses too much gas (thing will barely fit in the parking garage at work) I don't want to get rid of it because the bed is incredibly valuable to me along with the 4 wheel drive.

My Saturn beater car 1997 sl2 (no cloth interior/brakes going bad AGAIN) is now barely starting in the morning or not starting at all (sputters and then turns off, smoke comes out when you gas it up but once it is running its ok)

I don't want to get into a situation where saturn dies and then I am forced to car shop, so I'm shopping now hopefully so that I can "Walk off" the lot easier if I don't get what I want.


Looking at a 2008 Nissan Frontier, 4x4 , v6 automatic and it is only $16,950 with 7,300 miles on it. Pretty damn good price from all I can see.

I'm hoping to get $10,000 on trade-in value for both cars, then put down $3k-$4k down and have a freaking tiny loan. I would be OK w/ a $9k trade in for both vehicles.


Insurance should be cheaper for a 2008 vehicle vs. a 2002 vehicle+1997vehicle, but I'm going to confirm this with my agent, otherwise I might need to find an older vehicle.



$16,950
-$9,000 trade in
-$3,000 down pmt
---------
$4950


Kicker is; im taking my saturn to get an estimate on what is going on, how bad it might be w/ my fav mechanic and if its real bad ($1,000+), I think I'm going to bite the bullet and consolidate my fleet to one vehicle.



Any opinions on frontiers? Other models I'm looking at are the ranger and tacoma (colorado is too big, but thats objective so I'm looking into physical dimensions)

 

[boomhower]

Give some more details on the truck. Unless it is a high end model I don't think your going to be getting 9k for them. You would be better off selling the Saturn on your own, it is pretty worthless to them. A 12 year old Saturn hardly runs, smokes when it does, and has bad brakes? They probably won't take it at all.

The truck is trickier without knowing more about options and model but you would probably have trouble with that much on trading it in. If you are willing to sell it yourself then you may have better luck.

As far as insurance goes you might make out better keeping the Saturn and getting multi vehicle discount but that varies a lot.

 

[mozirry]

Thanks for the reply

it's a 2002 silverado LT z71 , only has about 80k miles, so yeah it is "high end" model

yeah, I basically love that truck, my most fav vehicle I have ever owned so I would love to keep it, so I'm just kind of scanning the possibilities

I've been giving this some thought and came to the conclusion that the current setup I have is pretty good so long as the car keeps on running. Once the saturn dies, I'm out all of $0.00, but if I trade it in, I get $0.00 (plastic aint worth scrap =) )


I'm taking in the saturn to my mechanic, hopefully it just needs a fuel injector cleanup or something that's not ridiculously expensive. Anything too $$ I may not consider it worth it =(

 

[halik]

Hmm I'd think they'll offer you ~7-8G for it or so, you're pretty much always better off trying to sell it yourself.