YMMV of course but we bought a former rental car for my wife in 2008
when her Toyota Avalon got written off. We got a 2007 Honda Accord with
22K miles on it for what we thought was a reasonable price.
No real issues with it since. It now has 60K miles on it and we have
done tires, a battery, brakes and a starter. Starter was just last week.
RB
On 06/06/2016 2:40 PM, Joel Cairo via Mercedes wrote:
The boy wants a "new" car. I'm thinking a small-mid-sized SUV A/4WD
given he is in a northern climate and it would be roomier than a
little car. He's OK with that. Looking at Carmax just because I don't
want to deal with a stealer or CL. Could maybe get an extended
warranty. The local/nearby Carmaxes have a bunch of SUVs, the Nissans
and hyundais look all to be ex-rentals ("fleet"). Any thoughts on
getting an ex-rental with 15-20k-ish miles? 2013-2015 so a year or 3
old with reasonable miles. He kinda liked a RAV4 but they only had
2WD models, the others I looked at are 4WD.
The basic issue is he does not want to deal with a car except to drive
it, I'm thinking the asian stuff is fairly reliable, relatively, and
the prices are in the $20k-$23k range which is doable.
Thoughts? BTW he has my dad's old 98 Caddy DeVille that is running
fine but the electronic instrument cluster has gone mostly inop. He
got another one off ebay which works but it has to be flashed to match
the car's computer or something, and that costs like $800-$900 by the
time it is pulled, flashed, organized somehow, then reinstalled. He
can't get it inspected in nannyland without doing that, I can't see
putting that kind of $$ into an 18yo car, I could probably sell it
here and get something for it or give it to the girl again.
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