Used Cars.
So the wife and I have been used car shopping. I’m sure for a lot of people it is a fun experience. Driving cars all day just for fun.
I don’t work like that. I feel the weight of being well-researched before I touch a car, and then when I drive it, I only want to find what is wrong.
Long story short, our process broke down like this.
The first step was to find a car somewhere. Second was to research it using “AutoCheck” (Think CarFax, but cheaper). Then call about the car and ask all sorts of silly questions to see how much they knew, if they were liars, and if they actually gave a crap. After all of that, we test drove. If it was still good, we took it to a mechanic to get it checked.
After several days of that we settled on a 2001 Saturn L300 with ~102,000 miles. We’re both happy with it, and I’m sure with a bit of care it will last another 100,000 miles.
July 17th, 2009 at 5:57 pm by rl