[airics]

i thought you were renting the car in vegas and driving to ny... my bad...

[macgeek]

no I am using a rental car when I am in Vegas (for my 2 week stays)
I am trying to decide which is the cheaper way to do this,
Buy a POS car, use it and when I move out here permanently,
sell it and only spend $1000 for 8 car rents worth of cars for $4000

Jonathan

[airics]

Originally Posted by macgeek

no I am using a rental car when I am in Vegas (for my 2 week stays)
I am trying to decide which is the cheaper way to do this,
Buy a POS car, use it and when I move out here permanently,
sell it and only spend $1000 for 8 car rents worth of cars for $4000

Jonathan

Don't forget you will have to register and insure the car full time... plus depending where you live, you still need to get to the home where your car is...

[airics]

and there isn't much out there decent for 3-4k.. unless of course, you would accept a car like lvd's (no offense lvd).... personally i wouldn't

[olecapt]

Originally Posted by airics

and there isn't much out there decent for 3-4k.. unless of course, you would accept a car like lvd's (no offense lvd).... personally i wouldn't

He has about $4000 to play with though. So what can he get that he can resell for only a very small loss after six months? YOu probably know better than anyone else Airics.

I would think if he buys the right thing it might work just fine.

[SouthernSarah]

I think you should buy what we in Nashville call a beater car. Its a car that is not pretty, nor expensive, but runs well and gets good mileage. You can get them off Craigslist for about $1,000. Use it when you are in LV and then sell it when you get your really cool personal car there from New York. :P

[airics]

Originally Posted by SouthernSarah

I think you should buy what we in Nashville call a beater car. Its a car that is not pretty, nor expensive, but runs well and gets good mileage. You can get them off Craigslist for about $1,000. Use it when you are in LV and then sell it when you get your really cool personal car there from New York. :P

$1000 buys absolute GARBAGE here... $1000 buys plain old garbage in Ohio.... You need about $5k to play and even then you are buying high mileage.... Of course you can always get the 15yr old p.o.s for around 1500. but you'll be fixing it.

The only "cheap" late model car that i've seen at the auctions lately are PT Cruisers.... not a terrible car.. pretty decent actually for an american car... You can be in a 3yr old convertible for under 10k.....

Even the 2003 Kia's with 100k plus are doing over $3500 at the dealer sale...

Over 10k, you can steal one.... I bought a 2004 Vette today for 15k... Books out in the low 20s...

[pommysmommy]

Originally Posted by airics

$1000 buys absolute GARBAGE here... $1000 buys plain old garbage in Ohio.... You need about $5k to play and even then you are buying high mileage.... Of course you can always get the 15yr old p.o.s for around 1500. but you'll be fixing it.

The only "cheap" late model car that i've seen at the auctions lately are PT Cruisers.... not a terrible car.. pretty decent actually for an american car... You can be in a 3yr old convertible for under 10k.....

Even the 2003 Kia's with 100k plus are doing over $3500 at the dealer sale...

Over 10k, you can steal one.... I bought a 2004 Vette today for 15k... Books out in the low 20s...

In this economy one person's bad fortune is another's treasure. Good buy Airics.

[ScoopLV]

I bought a $4,000, 2003 F150 with 70K on the clicker. It's a CNG motor, which means two things:

1) There are exactly four gas stations in Las Vegas that can fill my truck.

2) Gas was $2.30/gal last year, $2.40/gal this year, and will be $2.40/gal next year, because the prices are set by the gub'ment.


No smog, ever. Can drive in every HOV lane in the US. Oil changes every 50,000 miles. New plugs every 80,000 miles.


On the down side, I get about 300 miles per fill up, which means I can't really take the truck out of Las Vegas -- too risky, I might run out of natural gas.

[airics]

Originally Posted by ScoopLV

I bought a $4,000, 2003 F150 with 70K on the clicker. It's a CNG motor, which means two things:

1) There are exactly four gas stations in Las Vegas that can fill my truck.

2) Gas was $2.30/gal last year, $2.40/gal this year, and will be $2.40/gal next year, because the prices are set by the gub'ment.


No smog, ever. Can drive in every HOV lane in the US. Oil changes every 50,000 miles. New plugs every 80,000 miles.


On the down side, I get about 300 miles per fill up, which means I can't really take the truck out of Las Vegas -- too risky, I might run out of natural gas.

That's not a bad deal... I can't tell you if the CNG is a plus or minus.... Trucks are cheaper now due to the high gas prices.

Did you get the truck at the city auction?