I had taken her around to look at these little s*boxes, Versas and Foci
and whatnot. We were at this lot looking at a Versa, and the guy also
had a Subaru Forester for not a lot more money, it was really nice. She
drove it and of course compared to the little s*boxes she fell in love
with it. It was a bit higher than what she wanted to spend so we left
it as we would come back. Yesterday morning we went to look at another
Forester or two at this guy's lot who sells only Subarus. He had a
couple but they were in same price range as the one we had looked at
Friday but not as nice and he wouldn't haggle as he was moving those
things right out.
She called the other guy, we were going back to get the one we saw on
Friday, but someone had just come to buy it. Bah. So she starts
looking on her phone, finds one in Savannah in the same price range,
looks OK in the pics. So we head to Savannah, about 2hr away. (Benz
content: I drove the $500E300, it never missed a beat, but the AC is
still wonky and sometimes works great then decides not to. I think
there might be some sensor on the compressor speed or something as a
change in speed or rpm seems to kick the cooling off, will have to look
into that again)
We get to the lot, the guy was gonna meet us but his wife had some
crisis so he took off. Vehicle was not as nice and similar price, and
this kinda orange color which she didn't like. So she looks again and
finds another one listed about a mile away at another little lot. So we
go there, the car was a lot cheaper but had lots more miles, was OK
though but the miles put her off. We looked around, they had this
Nissan Rogue in decent condition, 150k miles, $5200 which was less than
the Subie. So we drove that, it was pretty nice, she decided she liked
it, so we bought it. I got the guy to knock off $200, we were out of
there. So she got a vehicle, she likes it, seems decent, will need
tires which she is getting this week. But saved her about $2k over the
other ones we were looking at so that made her feel pretty good. Some
money for tires and whatever other things it might need in the near
term, and if anything goes bad.
I knew nothing about these vehicles, but seems OK, AWD, is the higher
end model with some extra options, was very clean, carfax showed it had
been dealer maintained most always. This guy bought his cars from
dealers as trade-ins, never at auction, this one came from where it had
been serviced, the owner had traded it in on a new one. So that is a
bit comforting, but who knows...
Score one for FT! Rewards likely coming my way nudgenudgewinkwink...
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--FT
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