My wife has been borrowing a car from her friend since ours broke down a
couple weeks ago, and now that I'll be getting disability, and my wife
is getting paid more and will be getting a raise in a few weeks, we're
going to buy the car from her friend. $200 a month for the next five
years. It's a 2007 Honda Civic EX Coupe. I've never had a new car
before. It's really nice, and my wife needs a good car now that she
works twenty miles away, and now I'll have a car while she's at work.
--
-slunky
.
|
|
| User: "used2be" |
|
| Title: Re: New car |
25 Mar 2007 02:33:58 PM |
|
|
"slunky" <slunky@globalzero.org> wrote in message
news:slrnf0dhsl.keo.slunky@evo.zero...
My wife has been borrowing a car from her friend since ours broke down a
couple weeks ago, and now that I'll be getting disability, and my wife
is getting paid more and will be getting a raise in a few weeks, we're
going to buy the car from her friend. $200 a month for the next five
years. It's a 2007 Honda Civic EX Coupe. I've never had a new car
before. It's really nice, and my wife needs a good car now that she
works twenty miles away, and now I'll have a car while she's at work.
that's awesome, slunky. i'm so glad you've got all this going for you right
now. how nice of this guy to work with you guys like this.
you take care of that honda, and it will take care of you BELIEVE me. my
first car with my hubby was a honda civic. it was a 1982 model. :D now
i'm driving my 5th honda. i don't think i'll ever own another kind of
vehicle!!
.
|
|
|
| User: "Franz Bestuchev" |
|
| Title: Re: New car |
26 Mar 2007 09:29:57 AM |
|
|
On 3/25/2007 1:33 PM, used2be was all like:
"slunky" <slunky@globalzero.org> wrote in message
news:slrnf0dhsl.keo.slunky@evo.zero...
My wife has been borrowing a car from her friend since ours broke down a
couple weeks ago, and now that I'll be getting disability, and my wife
is getting paid more and will be getting a raise in a few weeks, we're
going to buy the car from her friend. $200 a month for the next five
years. It's a 2007 Honda Civic EX Coupe. I've never had a new car
before. It's really nice, and my wife needs a good car now that she
works twenty miles away, and now I'll have a car while she's at work.
that's awesome, slunky. i'm so glad you've got all this going for you right
now. how nice of this guy to work with you guys like this.
you take care of that honda, and it will take care of you BELIEVE me. my
first car with my hubby was a honda civic. it was a 1982 model. :D now
i'm driving my 5th honda. i don't think i'll ever own another kind of
vehicle!!
I had an 82 Accord - it had the get up and go of a wet sponge.
.
|
|
|
| User: "used2be" |
|
| Title: Re: New car |
26 Mar 2007 09:42:57 AM |
|
|
"Franz Bestuchev" <franz.bestuchev@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:56q3n3F2acmpeU1@mid.individual.net...
On 3/25/2007 1:33 PM, used2be was all like:
"slunky" <slunky@globalzero.org> wrote in message
news:slrnf0dhsl.keo.slunky@evo.zero...
My wife has been borrowing a car from her friend since ours broke down a
couple weeks ago, and now that I'll be getting disability, and my wife
is getting paid more and will be getting a raise in a few weeks, we're
going to buy the car from her friend. $200 a month for the next five
years. It's a 2007 Honda Civic EX Coupe. I've never had a new car
before. It's really nice, and my wife needs a good car now that she
works twenty miles away, and now I'll have a car while she's at work.
that's awesome, slunky. i'm so glad you've got all this going for you
right now. how nice of this guy to work with you guys like this.
you take care of that honda, and it will take care of you BELIEVE me. my
first car with my hubby was a honda civic. it was a 1982 model. :D now
i'm driving my 5th honda. i don't think i'll ever own another kind of
vehicle!!
I had an 82 Accord - it had the get up and go of a wet sponge.
they've come a long way since then. ;-)
.
|
|
|
| User: "Franz Bestuchev" |
|
| Title: Re: New car |
26 Mar 2007 11:53:31 AM |
|
|
On 3/26/2007 8:42 AM, used2be was all like:
"Franz Bestuchev" <franz.bestuchev@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:56q3n3F2acmpeU1@mid.individual.net...
On 3/25/2007 1:33 PM, used2be was all like:
"slunky" <slunky@globalzero.org> wrote in message
news:slrnf0dhsl.keo.slunky@evo.zero...
My wife has been borrowing a car from her friend since ours broke down a
couple weeks ago, and now that I'll be getting disability, and my wife
is getting paid more and will be getting a raise in a few weeks, we're
going to buy the car from her friend. $200 a month for the next five
years. It's a 2007 Honda Civic EX Coupe. I've never had a new car
before. It's really nice, and my wife needs a good car now that she
works twenty miles away, and now I'll have a car while she's at work.
that's awesome, slunky. i'm so glad you've got all this going for you
right now. how nice of this guy to work with you guys like this.
you take care of that honda, and it will take care of you BELIEVE me. my
first car with my hubby was a honda civic. it was a 1982 model. :D now
i'm driving my 5th honda. i don't think i'll ever own another kind of
vehicle!!
I had an 82 Accord - it had the get up and go of a wet sponge.
they've come a long way since then. ;-)
That's because they decided that their CVCC idea was fun for the EPA only.
.
|
|
|
|
|
|
| User: "slunky" |
|
| Title: Re: New car |
25 Mar 2007 02:40:33 PM |
|
|
_/ used2be wrote \_
that's awesome, slunky. i'm so glad you've got all this going for you right
now. how nice of this guy to work with you guys like this.
Yea, he's really nice. He knew we needed a car, and he only used this
car for long trips because it's got good gas mileage. He drives a Hummer
mostly.
you take care of that honda, and it will take care of you BELIEVE me. my
first car with my hubby was a honda civic. it was a 1982 model. :D now
i'm driving my 5th honda. i don't think i'll ever own another kind of
vehicle!!
It needs an oil change. It told me so, so I guess I'd better do that.
It's kind of small for me. I have to kind of squirm into the driver's
seat, and I have to lean the seat back or my head touches the roof (or I
just open the sunroof.)
--
-slunky
.
|
|
|
| User: "used2be" |
|
| Title: Re: New car |
25 Mar 2007 03:01:59 PM |
|
|
"slunky" <slunky@globalzero.org> wrote in message
news:slrnf0djuf.keo.slunky@evo.zero...
_/ used2be wrote \_
that's awesome, slunky. i'm so glad you've got all this going for you
right
now. how nice of this guy to work with you guys like this.
Yea, he's really nice. He knew we needed a car, and he only used this
car for long trips because it's got good gas mileage. He drives a Hummer
mostly.
you take care of that honda, and it will take care of you BELIEVE me. my
first car with my hubby was a honda civic. it was a 1982 model. :D now
i'm driving my 5th honda. i don't think i'll ever own another kind of
vehicle!!
It needs an oil change. It told me so, so I guess I'd better do that.
It's kind of small for me. I have to kind of squirm into the driver's
seat, and I have to lean the seat back or my head touches the roof (or I
just open the sunroof.)
change the oil every 5 thousand miles religiously, and that sucker will run
forever. :))
my hubby is 6'2" and our first honda was pretty much an oversized roller
skate. you can imagine what a tight squeeze that was! but we didn't know
any better back then....we were just tickled to be buying our first vehicle.
.
|
|
|
| User: "slunky" |
|
| Title: Re: New car |
25 Mar 2007 03:09:21 PM |
|
|
_/ used2be wrote \_
change the oil every 5 thousand miles religiously, and that sucker will run
forever. :))
I just need a little money to buy the oil, and I'll do it. I should be
getting my money soon.
my hubby is 6'2" and our first honda was pretty much an oversized roller
skate. you can imagine what a tight squeeze that was! but we didn't know
any better back then....we were just tickled to be buying our first vehicle.
This car is pretty small, but that's why it saves on gas.
--
-slunky
.
|
|
|
| User: "used2be" |
|
| Title: Re: New car |
25 Mar 2007 03:18:34 PM |
|
|
"slunky" <slunky@globalzero.org> wrote in message
news:slrnf0dlkf.keo.slunky@evo.zero...
_/ used2be wrote \_
change the oil every 5 thousand miles religiously, and that sucker will
run
forever. :))
I just need a little money to buy the oil, and I'll do it. I should be
getting my money soon.
it's worth the investment, believe me. a pretty cheap way to keep the thing
running forever.
my hubby is 6'2" and our first honda was pretty much an oversized roller
skate. you can imagine what a tight squeeze that was! but we didn't
know
any better back then....we were just tickled to be buying our first
vehicle.
This car is pretty small, but that's why it saves on gas.
our first little civic got 45 mpg. it was a stick shift.
.
|
|
|
| User: "slunky" |
|
| Title: Re: New car |
25 Mar 2007 03:22:50 PM |
|
|
_/ used2be wrote \_
it's worth the investment, believe me. a pretty cheap way to keep the thing
running forever.
I just changed the oil in our other car. If I knew we'd be keeping the
Honda, I would've just put the oil into that.
our first little civic got 45 mpg. it was a stick shift.
I think this one get's 38mpg. It's a stick shift as well. I don't like
automatic transmissions. It also says it's a ULEV. Ultra-low emissions
vehicle.
--
-slunky
.
|
|
|
| User: "used2be" |
|
| Title: Re: New car |
25 Mar 2007 03:44:09 PM |
|
|
"slunky" <slunky@globalzero.org> wrote in message
news:slrnf0dmdo.keo.slunky@evo.zero...
_/ used2be wrote \_
it's worth the investment, believe me. a pretty cheap way to keep the
thing
running forever.
I just changed the oil in our other car. If I knew we'd be keeping the
Honda, I would've just put the oil into that.
well, you'll get around to it slunk. don't stress about it.
our first little civic got 45 mpg. it was a stick shift.
I think this one get's 38mpg. It's a stick shift as well. I don't like
automatic transmissions. It also says it's a ULEV. Ultra-low emissions
vehicle.
my first 4 hondas were all stick shifts. i tho't i'd really moved up when i
got my van and it was automatic. :) now i'm afraid it would be very hard
to go back!
.
|
|
|
| User: "slunky" |
|
| Title: Re: New car |
25 Mar 2007 10:15:36 PM |
|
|
_/ used2be wrote \_
my first 4 hondas were all stick shifts. i tho't i'd really moved up when i
got my van and it was automatic. :) now i'm afraid it would be very hard
to go back!
If it ever starts acting up, you'll wish you could go back. I had a
Taurus with a really bad automatic transmission. I had to shift it
between 1, 2, and D all the time.
--
-slunky
.
|
|
|
|
|
| User: "Franz Bestuchev" |
|
| Title: Re: New car |
26 Mar 2007 11:50:50 AM |
|
|
On 3/25/2007 2:22 PM, slunky was all like:
_/ used2be wrote \_
it's worth the investment, believe me. a pretty cheap way to keep the thing
running forever.
I just changed the oil in our other car. If I knew we'd be keeping the
Honda, I would've just put the oil into that.
our first little civic got 45 mpg. it was a stick shift.
I think this one get's 38mpg. It's a stick shift as well. I don't like
automatic transmissions. It also says it's a ULEV. Ultra-low emissions
vehicle.
My Integra (when it was street legal) would get 30mpg on synthetic 5w30
in town and EPA rated at 25mpg. Highway was pretty much the same
although EPA rating was 28mpg. The car has about 120k on it and cylinder
compression is only down by 5%. I ran it on dino oil for the first 30k
of its life but then started getting paid enough that I didn't mind
crawling under the hood and doing $25 oil changes. After all, it paled
in comparison to what I was spending on the aftermarket bits and pieces.
Now I auto cross it, although I didn't get out last year at all.
.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| User: "Franz Bestuchev" |
|
| Title: Re: New car |
26 Mar 2007 09:31:19 AM |
|
|
On 3/25/2007 1:40 PM, slunky was all like:
_/ used2be wrote \_
that's awesome, slunky. i'm so glad you've got all this going for you right
now. how nice of this guy to work with you guys like this.
Yea, he's really nice. He knew we needed a car, and he only used this
car for long trips because it's got good gas mileage. He drives a Hummer
mostly.
you take care of that honda, and it will take care of you BELIEVE me. my
first car with my hubby was a honda civic. it was a 1982 model. :D now
i'm driving my 5th honda. i don't think i'll ever own another kind of
vehicle!!
It needs an oil change. It told me so, so I guess I'd better do that.
It's kind of small for me. I have to kind of squirm into the driver's
seat, and I have to lean the seat back or my head touches the roof (or I
just open the sunroof.)
I hate sunroofs (well, usually technically a moonroof). They reduce
headroom by like 3".
.
|
|
|
| User: "slunky" |
|
| Title: Re: New car |
26 Mar 2007 12:43:55 PM |
|
|
_/ Franz Bestuchev wrote \_
I hate sunroofs (well, usually technically a moonroof). They reduce
headroom by like 3".
Yea, I have to lean the seat back a little to be able to fit in the car,
and then I feel like one of those dopey kids that lean the seat all the
way back so they can't see over the dashboard.
--
-slunky
.
|
|
|
| User: "Franz Bestuchev" |
|
| Title: Re: New car |
27 Mar 2007 11:10:55 AM |
|
|
On 3/26/2007 11:43 AM, slunky was all like:
_/ Franz Bestuchev wrote \_
I hate sunroofs (well, usually technically a moonroof). They reduce
headroom by like 3".
Yea, I have to lean the seat back a little to be able to fit in the car,
and then I feel like one of those dopey kids that lean the seat all the
way back so they can't see over the dashboard.
Honda did something to the Accords around 2000 where the ergonomics were
so fucked up I couldn't sit in the car, put the seat back far enough to
fit my legs inside , or recline it enough to keep my head off the roof
and still reach the wheel.
When you figure that my early 90s Integra is built on the Civic platform
and I fit quite comfortably in that, seeing what they did to that
generation of Accord was a real bummer.
.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| User: "lisa in mass." |
|
| Title: Re: New car |
25 Mar 2007 03:17:51 PM |
|
|
slunky wrote...
My wife has been borrowing a car from her friend since ours
broke down a couple weeks ago, and now that I'll be getting
disability, and my wife is getting paid more and will be
getting a raise in a few weeks, we're going to buy the car
from her friend. $200 a month for the next five years. It's
a 2007 Honda Civic EX Coupe. I've never had a new car
before. It's really nice, and my wife needs a good car now
that she works twenty miles away, and now I'll have a car
while she's at work.
Excellent, Slunky. Enjoy it!
.
|
|
|
| User: "slunky" |
|
| Title: Re: New car |
25 Mar 2007 03:24:14 PM |
|
|
_/ lisa in mass. wrote \_
Excellent, Slunky. Enjoy it!
I will. Even though I'll still be driving my '93 Plymouth most of the
time.
--
-slunky
.
|
|
|
| User: "used2be" |
|
| Title: Re: New car |
25 Mar 2007 03:44:29 PM |
|
|
"slunky" <slunky@globalzero.org> wrote in message
news:slrnf0dmgc.keo.slunky@evo.zero...
_/ lisa in mass. wrote \_
Excellent, Slunky. Enjoy it!
I will. Even though I'll still be driving my '93 Plymouth most of the
time.
kewl!!!
.
|
|
|
|
|
|
| User: "Ghost Rider" |
|
| Title: Re: New car |
25 Mar 2007 02:20:46 PM |
|
|
slunky wrote:
My wife has been borrowing a car from her friend since ours broke down a
couple weeks ago, and now that I'll be getting disability, and my wife
is getting paid more and will be getting a raise in a few weeks, we're
going to buy the car from her friend. $200 a month for the next five
years. It's a 2007 Honda Civic EX Coupe. I've never had a new car
before. It's really nice, and my wife needs a good car now that she
works twenty miles away, and now I'll have a car while she's at work.
can'nt go wrong with a honda, new or used.
make sure the friend has no money owing on the car.
once you take ownership of the car, i think the (if any) money owing
becomes your problem.
no fault of your friend,just the bank/finace company.
.
|
|
|
| User: "slunky" |
|
| Title: Re: New car |
25 Mar 2007 02:26:25 PM |
|
|
_/ Ghost Rider wrote \_
can'nt go wrong with a honda, new or used.
make sure the friend has no money owing on the car.
once you take ownership of the car, i think the (if any) money owing
becomes your problem.
no fault of your friend,just the bank/finace company.
He owns it. I've seen the title, and it's clean. No leins or anything
He's got a lot of money and seven cars. He owns a big apartment complex.
This is the only way we'd ever be able to get a new car. Our credit is
messed up. He's doing us a favor. When we make our first payment to him,
we're doing a contract. I'm drawing it up right now. I'm not going to
get screwed on this.
--
-slunky
.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Related Articles |
|
|
