Chronic Car Buyers Anonymous (Archived)

stickguy

I’m 6’, but long torso relative to legs. So I sit “tall”. Still my 2001 Miata was torture. Absolutely no room for my legs. I had to drive with my knees splayed out. Newer models were better.

The integra was a headroom issue. Had to really recline the seat a lot more than I preferred.

nyccarguy

pensfan83 said:

You all are bad influences. I'm seriously considering throwing a bid down on this.

https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1999-acura-integra-6/

That's a sharp car!

nyccarguy

I know a few of you have been mentioning motorcycles lately.  What do you think of this 2009 Harley Davidson 883L (XL883R Replica) with only 5,285 miles?  (Not for me, just a general question).  My friend purchased this bike 2 years ago.  It runs perfect.  He’s asking $3K for it.

kyfdx

nyccarguy said:

I know a few of you have been mentioning motorcycles lately.  What do you think of this 2009 Harley Davidson 883L (XL883R Replica) with only 5,285 miles?  (Not for me, just a general question).  My friend purchased this bike 2 years ago.  It runs perfect.  He’s asking $3K for it.

Seems cheap enough, if you are into that sort of bike.

Mr_Shiftright

pensfan83 said:

You all are bad influences. I'm seriously considering throwing a bid down on this.

https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1999-acura-integra-6/

Clean CARFAX on that one.

nyccarguy

Mr_Shiftright said:

pensfan83 said:

You all are bad influences. I'm seriously considering throwing a bid down on this.

https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1999-acura-integra-6/

Clean CARFAX on that one.

@pensfan83 - you are looking for the troublemaker, it is the guy who checks out the carfax without asking

Mr_Shiftright

nyccarguy said:

I know a few of you have been mentioning motorcycles lately.  What do you think of this 2009 Harley Davidson 883L (XL883R Replica) with only 5,285 miles?  (Not for me, just a general question).  My friend purchased this bike 2 years ago.  It runs perfect.  He’s asking $3K for it.

Well, I'm rather heavily biased against Harleys to begin with, but I have ridden a fair number (which is WHY I'm biased ) but on a bike like this, with relatively low miles and a reasonable price, you might enjoy puttering around town on it. It is most definitely NOT a touring bike--100 miles and you are done unless you have a lot of endurance for vibration and noise and spine punishment.

As a fun toy, why not? It's not fast, but fast enough, or comfortable, but good enough for short trips, or particularly reliable (not bad though and parts are plentiful).Any decent Japanese or German or Italian touring bike with decent miles is going to cost you a lot more.

nyccarguy

kyfdx said:

nyccarguy said:

I know a few of you have been mentioning motorcycles lately.  What do you think of this 2009 Harley Davidson 883L (XL883R Replica) with only 5,285 miles?  (Not for me, just a general question).  My friend purchased this bike 2 years ago.  It runs perfect.  He’s asking $3K for it.

Seems cheap enough, if you are into that sort of bike.

I don't know anything about motorcycles, but this seems more like a ride around town bike than a touring bike?

ab348

stickguy said:

I like those legacies. Fun. And such old school tech. Not even blue tooth, hard to get used to that!

Lots of miles on this one. At least the head gaskets are not as old, since for some reason, that car had a new engine installed at 25k.

Is a 2009 of the vintage where the engines tended to go bad prematurely?

28firefighter

What about something like this?

https://www.autotrader.com/cars-for-sale/vehicledetails.xhtml?listingId=479660000

stickguy

looks like fun. as long as someone else is paying the repair bills. man is that engine wedged in tight.

I am more and more a fan of small 4s with big turbos in this size car. probably just about as fast too.

pensfan83

nyccarguy said:

@pensfan83 - you are looking for the troublemaker, it is the guy who checks out the carfax without asking

Ha. Everyone here is an enabler in their own way though

Thanks @Mr_Shiftright for the clean bill of health, the chances of landing it are slim to none because I still have to convince the wife and my hard dollar cap would probably be a few thousand dollars where it lands.

stickguy

BaT has a way of doing that to you. There have been a couple like that, where I would love to have it, but with 4 days left it already blew through my meager budget. And/Or it is on the west coast.

28firefighter

So the person selling the 350z reached out to me - he had a delay getting it on the market, but it's still available. The option there I had been thinking about was leasing a Forester XT Premium for DD duty and getting a fun third car.

It seems like a great idea, in theory, but I have no idea when I'd drive a third car...

Mr_Shiftright

pensfan83 said:

nyccarguy said:

@pensfan83 - you are looking for the troublemaker, it is the guy who checks out the carfax without asking

Ha. Everyone here is an enabler in their own way though

Thanks @Mr_Shiftright for the clean bill of health, the chances of landing it are slim to none because I still have to convince the wife and my hard dollar cap would probably be a few thousand dollars where it lands.

We also offer marriage counseling here.

qbrozen

28firefighter said:

Also, I just looked the dealer up. They don’t negotiate and do not have a great reputation. 

No negotiation on a car they are asking $6k-$7k profit on? Hope they really really like it because it will be there a LOONNG time.

qbrozen

pensfan83 said:

You all are bad influences. I'm seriously considering throwing a bid down on this. https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1999-acura-integra-6/

Does your bid start with a 2 and have 4 more digits before the decimal point? Otherwise, you are only kidding yourself. These are getting STUPID money these days.

Mr_Shiftright

Really? Are you thinking of the Type R? I'm seeing these all over the place in CA for $5K

https://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/cto/d/2000-acura-integra-gsr-2-door/6578395036.html

28firefighter

Benz transfer was credit approved, so just now waiting on docs to sign. Planning to execute the transaction at the buyer's bank (BoA) - he can give me a cashier's check/cash that I can see drafted and they'll notarize the papers for us. Then we FedEx those back and await the final registration process.

Looks like 10-14 business days total if we are prompt.

While there isn't a huge rush because I can rent a car if need be, I'd like to button something down. What I really want (a Forester XT with a Manual) doesn't exist. Planning to drive a Civic Si, but other than that I'm not sure what good options I have new that are reasonably within my budget.

As far as I can tell, my options would be:
Accord Sport 2.0T
Civic Si
Subaru WRX
Subaru Forester 2.5i
VW Alltrack (probably used)
Used A4
Used 3-series

Then if I want to go older, much older, we're back to things like the Viggen, Volvo S60/V70/S40 T5 (which doesn't seem to exist), Audi, BMW.

There is nothing super appealing that I really WANT. I guess what I really want is my GTI back with a 6spd, but its really too tight in the back seat.

Thoughts?

qbrozen

Mr_Shiftright said:

Really? Are you thinking of the Type R? I'm seeing these all over the place in CA for $5K https://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/cto/d/2000-acura-integra-gsr-2-door/6578395036.html

Oh, maybe.
but your example is a far cry from the BaT car, that's for sure. Find me a clean sub-100k car for $5k and I'll pay you a finders fee after I ship it here.

corvette

Mr_Shiftright said:

@pensfan83 - you are looking for the troublemaker, it is the guy who checks out the carfax without asking

Ha. Everyone here is an enabler in their own way though Thanks @Mr_Shiftright for the clean bill of health, the chances of landing it are slim to none because I still have to convince the wife and my hard dollar cap would probably be a few thousand dollars where it lands.

We also offer marriage counseling here.

What about short term loans? 

28firefighter

Mr_Shiftright said:

pensfan83 said:

nyccarguy said:

@pensfan83 - you are looking for the troublemaker, it is the guy who checks out the carfax without asking

Ha. Everyone here is an enabler in their own way though

Thanks @Mr_Shiftright for the clean bill of health, the chances of landing it are slim to none because I still have to convince the wife and my hard dollar cap would probably be a few thousand dollars where it lands.

We also offer marriage counseling here.

How about parking?

Mr_Shiftright

qbrozen said:

Mr_Shiftright said:

Really? Are you thinking of the Type R? I'm seeing these all over the place in CA for $5K

https://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/cto/d/2000-acura-integra-gsr-2-door/6578395036.html

Oh, maybe.
but your example is a far cry from the BaT car, that's for sure. Find me a clean sub-100k car for $5k and I'll pay you a finders fee after I ship it here.

Oh, I don't think the BAT is all that clean--it's dinged up, has a few dents, wheel clearcoat is peeling off, front spoiler is damaged.

It's not easy to find ANY 1999 car with low miles--that's 20 years ago! I'd suggest picking a cleaner one, even if higher mileage.

Here's a low mileage one in AZ--maybe you could hammer it down to $5K. It's been up a week already.

https://www.cargurus.com/Cars/inventorylisting/viewDetailsFilterViewInventoryListing.action?sourceContext=cargurusTM&newSearchFromOverviewPage=true&inventorySearchWidgetType=AUTO&entitySelectingHelper.selectedEntity=d36&entitySelectingHelper.selectedEntity2=&zip=95476&distance=50000&searchChanged=true&trimNames=GS+Coupe+FWD&maxMileage=100000&modelChanged=false&filtersModified=true#listing=206667328

qbrozen

Hadn't looked closely. Does have some somewhat nasty mishaps. I'm going to guess, however, it hits $8k.

Mr_Shiftright

Boy, that would lower my estimation of the basic intelligence of the American consumer. I'm thinkin' $5500 is all the money, if that.

28firefighter

Mr_Shiftright said:

Boy, that would lower my estimation of the basic intelligence of the American consumer. I'm thinkin' $5500 is all the money, if that.

Welcome to BaT.

kyfdx

BAT is all about marketing

28firefighter

A great way to describe my life experience when I was single.

Mr_Shiftright

Yeah, I get that---but on cars that are quite common, I don't understand outlier prices.

Outlier prices are to be expected now and then with rarer vehicles because there aren't many points of sale for buyers to reference. But if you do a quick search on CL or Car Gurus for GS-Rs and you still bid $8500 for something less than clean----well, that's just being lazy with your money habits.

stickguy

28firefighter said:

Benz transfer was credit approved, so just now waiting on docs to sign. Planning to execute the transaction at the buyer's bank (BoA) - he can give me a cashier's check/cash that I can see drafted and they'll notarize the papers for us. Then we FedEx those back and await the final registration process.

Looks like 10-14 business days total if we are prompt.

While there isn't a huge rush because I can rent a car if need be, I'd like to button something down. What I really want (a Forester XT with a Manual) doesn't exist. Planning to drive a Civic Si, but other than that I'm not sure what good options I have new that are reasonably within my budget.

As far as I can tell, my options would be:
Accord Sport 2.0T
Civic Si
Subaru WRX
Subaru Forester 2.5i
VW Alltrack (probably used)
Used A4
Used 3-series

Then if I want to go older, much older, we're back to things like the Viggen, Volvo S60/V70/S40 T5 (which doesn't seem to exist), Audi, BMW.

There is nothing super appealing that I really WANT. I guess what I really want is my GTI back with a 6spd, but its really too tight in the back seat.

Thoughts?

my thought? If you want a GTI but need a bigger back seat, get a GLI. Problem solved.

qbrozen

Mr_Shiftright said:

Yeah, I get that---but on cars that are quite common, I don't understand outlier prices. Outlier prices are to be expected now and then with rarer vehicles because there aren't many points of sale for buyers to reference. But if you do a quick search on CL or Car Gurus for GS-Rs and you still bid $8500 for something less than clean----well, that's just being lazy with your money habits.

BUT, you have a far clearer idea of what you are getting when looking at BaT, so it would seem. It opens up your buyer pool to more than just locals who are willing to make the trip based on a lousy 2-line ad and 3 dark pics.

28firefighter

stickguy said:

Benz transfer was credit approved, so just now waiting on docs to sign. Planning to execute the transaction at the buyer's bank (BoA) - he can give me a cashier's check/cash that I can see drafted and they'll notarize the papers for us. Then we FedEx those back and await the final registration process. Looks like 10-14 business days total if we are prompt. While there isn't a huge rush because I can rent a car if need be, I'd like to button something down. What I really want (a Forester XT with a Manual) doesn't exist. Planning to drive a Civic Si, but other than that I'm not sure what good options I have new that are reasonably within my budget. As far as I can tell, my options would be: Accord Sport 2.0T Civic Si Subaru WRX Subaru Forester 2.5i VW Alltrack (probably used) Used A4 Used 3-series Then if I want to go older, much older, we're back to things like the Viggen, Volvo S60/V70/S40 T5 (which doesn't seem to exist), Audi, BMW. There is nothing super appealing that I really WANT. I guess what I really want is my GTI back with a 6spd, but its really too tight in the back seat. Thoughts?

my thought? If you want a GTI but need a bigger back seat, get a GLI. Problem solved.

It’s the older 2.0T and the interior is entirely to Jetta-y. I think what will really hit the spot is a new GLI based on the new design. 

stickguy

the new Jetta will be out by next month I think. But the GLI may not be out until year end. at least that was a rumor at one point.

still a nice car.

28firefighter

Right. Just need something until that new GLI comes out. Hate to tie myself up in something expensive. 

kyfdx

A cheap lease on a Mercedes would be the way to go... oh, wait..

stickguy

buy the Viggen. by the time the GLI comes out, you will be ready to dump it anyway.

perfect solution.

28firefighter

kyfdx said:

A cheap lease on a Mercedes would be the way to go... oh, wait..

Are you quite finished?

stickguy said:

buy the Viggen. by the time the GLI comes out, you will be ready to dump it anyway. perfect solution.

Yeah...hopefully my wife won’t dump me. 

stickguy

here is a cheap entry into the Panther world. Miles not too bad for the year.

http://www.royaleasing.com/detail-2000-lincoln-town_car-4dr_sedan_executive-used-17646046.html

stickguy

your wife must be used to you by now. Just point out that she is the one that made you get rid of the Benz!

28firefighter

When I pointed out that the Viggen would need $4000 a year in maintenance to be more than a new car payment, she realized my point. 

I just texted to see if he sold it. 

28firefighter

Stupid decision punch pending. 

kyfdx

28firefighter said:

Stupid decision punch pending. 

lol.. I don't think that's a bad choice to tide you over.

stickguy

agreed. Pretty low cost. Might lose a few $$ on it, but if you keep it 6 months and lose $2k flipping it, that is still less than you would have spent on the MB lease.

nyccarguy

28firefighter said:

Stupid decision punch pending. 

There are no stupid punches. As long as the card gets punched, we are here for you!

28firefighter

You guys are good friends. Probably not picking it up until Monday, but stay tuned. 

nyccarguy

28firefighter said:

You guys are good friends. Probably not picking it up until Monday, but stay tuned. 

Same bat time, same bat channel

qbrozen

So we got her the 2011 Honda Shadow.

tbirdmarco

 So what did you end up getting 20 firefighter tell us before Monday we will wanna know 

tbirdmarco

Lol lol

nyccarguy

Has anybody heard from @graphicguy ?