The Ohio Random Thread... aka We Should Probably Be Working

I know Jess has a friend who does that, and know someone I found with a Groupon, did a pretty good job with the Sonata. I can give you his info after I get home. He comes to your home\work, carries everything he needs in his car.

Thanks! That would be awesome if they came to my home to do it.
 
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Also drove a 6 touring and fell in love with it! You were right Nate, car is very nice and one I could see having for a long time. Of course my budget would have some trouble getting a sport in there so the touring is out of question. :( Thinking about a possible lease so I can get the payments down to a more comfortable level. Just not sure if I want to put a couple of thousand down to lower the payment more or not. If I end up buying the car that's one thing but if I trade it in I feel as though I'm just throwing that money away.
I'd not recommend leasing and then buying the car, it's almost like paying TWICE the price for it. They don't consider what you've paid into the lease. They take the value of the car at the time of the end of your lease (and you know how these cars hold their value) and get their car sale price from there and then depending on what you can afford, you're paying another 3-4 years on that. At least that's how I THINK it works, from what I've been told. I could certainly be wrong. : / I've just heard it's not worth buying your leased car because you're paying more for it than you would have if you bought it outright. Leasing is nice if you like to have a new car every 3 years, if you don't put alot of miles on the car and the price is usually pretty decent, but then you sort of dig yourself into a hole in the aspect that you don't have anything to show for it once the lease is over. I leased once because the price was right, but it's not something I'd do again if I didn't have to. just my $.02.


Didn't think they had a lot of room on the 2's given the already low price? Worth looking into though

Marlon always says, "It never hurts to ask. All they can say is yes or no." and you're no worse off than you were before if it doesn't have a GOOD outcome : )
 
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Need a new toy!

The wife and I have been looking for a week or two and we decided that its time to start seriously off roading, we have had her Liberty on a few trails but nothing too good because its her DD. So I ask the awesomeness that is Mazdas247 for help in finding any year wrangler for under 2K. Starting the search today gonna go look at some prospects: also looking into K5's, other Jeep models, 2nd gen 4Runner, Samurais, even an older Land Cruiser, really anything along the SUV off road beast mode vehicle. Any insight would be great, I promise this isnt someone just trying to gain post, really looking for help.
 
its going to rain saturday :'( I want my car to be all pretty and be able to handle the twisties after the coils go on
 
I got approved for the loan! wooooooohoooooo MS3 here i come! (alright) (cabpatch) (cheerbanana)

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Congrats AJ!

Scattered showers here on saturday as of right now, hopefully the rain stays away
 
Also drove a 6 touring and fell in love with it! You were right Nate, car is very nice and one I could see having for a long time. Of course my budget would have some trouble getting a sport in there so the touring is out of question. :( Thinking about a possible lease so I can get the payments down to a more comfortable level. Just not sure if I want to put a couple of thousand down to lower the payment more or not. If I end up buying the car that's one thing but if I trade it in I feel as though I'm just throwing that money away.
I'd not recommend leasing and then buying the car, it's almost like paying TWICE the price for it. They don't consider what you've paid into the lease. They take the value of the car at the time of the end of your lease (and you know how these cars hold their value) and get their car sale price from there and then depending on what you can afford, you're paying another 3-4 years on that. At least that's how I THINK it works, from what I've been told. I could certainly be wrong. : / I've just heard it's not worth buying your leased car because you're paying more for it than you would have if you bought it outright. Leasing is nice if you like to have a new car every 3 years, if you don't put alot of miles on the car and the price is usually pretty decent, but then you sort of dig yourself into a hole in the aspect that you don't have anything to show for it once the lease is over. I leased once because the price was right, but it's not something I'd do again if I didn't have to. just my .02. )

Most cases it doesn't make sense to buy out a lease, but you can have positive equity at the end of a lease. Or you can just want to keep the car. I've had customers buy out there leases because they love the car or they have such low miles on the car at the end that they actually had some money built into the car and didn't want to lose it.
 
I'm glad lauri mentioned the buying a car twice thing. Leasing is something that you can do when you want a new car every 4-5 years & always have a car payment.

Look towards a 4wd Tacoma. They're very good offroad. Jeeps aren't as good as people make them out to be. You have to dump a lot of money into them for them to be good. Taco's are pretty good out of the box.

Offloading isn't cheap. You're not going to really anything good or reliable in the $2,000 price range. If you do, you're going to invest more money to get it offroad capable. Checj out TTORA if you want to find local chapters of local off roaders.
 
Congrats AJ!!! :)

And thanks for the insight on leasing!!!! I've never done it before nor have I ever really looked into it. In my head the money I'd be paying during the lease was coming off the amount owed should I buy it at the end. So then I guess it's safe to say that any cash I'd put down to lower the monthly lease payment is pretty much thrown away as it would not directly effect the amount owed at the end of the lease? Was seriously going to put down $2000 (what I'd put into the Protege anyway) or even more to get the lower payment up front thinking that money would then reduce what was owed on the backend.
 
Congrats AJ!!! :)

And thanks for the insight on leasing!!!! I've never done it before nor have I ever really looked into it. In my head the money I'd be paying during the lease was coming off the amount owed should I buy it at the end. So then I guess it's safe to say that any cash I'd put down to lower the monthly lease payment is pretty much thrown away as it would not directly effect the amount owed at the end of the lease? Was seriously going to put down $2000 (what I'd put into the Protege anyway) or even more to get the lower payment up front thinking that money would then reduce what was owed on the backend.



Jeff, I can get you S Plan Pricing on a 2, and you can get all of the other soecual finanancing deals as well. Let me know and I will get the certificate for you. Shoot me or Lauri a PM and we'll get it to you ASAP!
 
Wow and thanks Marlon! Will def. shoot you a pm should it come to that. Still trying to work numbers or source a used engine for the car.
 
well as of Memorial Day I will no longer have the Monte Carlo. Not sure If I'll have anything to drive but hopefully I can get the MSP going. Going to spend all weekend working on it.
 
I did NOT see that coming, AJ. haha

But congrats, man!

Congrats AJ!

Scattered showers here on saturday as of right now, hopefully the rain stays away

Congrats AJ!!! :)

And thanks for the insight on leasing!!!! I've never done it before nor have I ever really looked into it. In my head the money I'd be paying during the lease was coming off the amount owed should I buy it at the end. So then I guess it's safe to say that any cash I'd put down to lower the monthly lease payment is pretty much thrown away as it would not directly effect the amount owed at the end of the lease? Was seriously going to put down $2000 (what I'd put into the Protege anyway) or even more to get the lower payment up front thinking that money would then reduce what was owed on the backend.

Congrats!!!!!!!!

thanks guys! i am stoked!
 
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