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Should I keep or sell a recently bought car? I think I got a little in over in my head when buying a car. Advice? Reposted with additional information. I recently bought a 2022 Honda Civic for 29k with 10k down. Total loan is a 19,404. Interest rate of 6.79% and a term of 75 months. Monthly insurance is about $190. Currently pay rent of $515 I’m in the process of cancelling the extended…

Rent a car insurance using booking.com experiences? Hi, Me and my girlfriend are going to Mjorca in june and as we booked a hotel and flights we realised that we might want to rent a car aswell. Right now im looking at some car rentals around the airport and all of them are like 50€ a day while booking.com has an option for 110€ for the whole 7 days. I understand that means there is no insurance …

23 y/o with no credit and no savings. I’m in desperate need of a car of my own to work and live. Right now I live with my 25 y/o girlfriend in her paid-for double wide trailer, on property in her grandfather’s name (it will be hers one day, but for now, he pays the propert tax), and we share a 2004 Camry. I don’t have a stable job right now (as of rn I’m with a temp agency as well as doing side work to make money) but if everything goes acc…

Looking to upgrade to a “mom” car My wife and I found out that we will be expecting our second child. We have one who is 9 months old. (We didn’t plan the second one…oops) My wife drives a 2014 Nissan Xterra that is fully paid off, has 150k miles, and has never had any issues. I drive a 2019 Volvo XC60 that has about 30k left on the car note, has 75k miles, and has only gone int…

Can a car rental place prevent me from making it to my return flight? If we can’t pay fees submitted by /u/Key-Visit8687

Selling my car with a balance on it. Hi! This is my first time selling a vehicle. I’m looking to downsize/get rid of my monthly payment. I have a vehicle that I owe $27,000 on it, Carmax gave me a quote to buy it for $25,000. I’m planning to buy a car cash for $6,000. Would it be smart to make this move? TIA. submitted by /u/Stock_Composer_9090

A Man Once Sued Himself After He Backed Into His Own Car Despite how much we love them, cars make people do dumb things. Whether it’s willingly overpaying for them to being clueless while driving, cars can affect judgment in the worst ways. Vehicle accidents can really bring out the dumb in people. Take the man who tried to sue himself after a collision in this strange… Read more…

Can I really afford a car payment? I have been obsessed with the new Ford Broncos since they were unveiled. Now, my fiance and family have been telling me it’s time a buy one and that I can afford it. But can I really? I work in healthcare, so I have a decent income. However, I do pay a large amount in student loans as I try to pay them off rapidly. My monthly take home after ta…

I got laid off four months ago, finally found a new job, car broke down Hey, so basically im a young guy (22) and moved out of state from anyone I know for work. My company got acquired and our team got offshored. Anyways, I’ve been applying around and finally got a new gig starting in May, it’s in-person and fifteen miles away. Well today my car broke down completely, I still have to bring it in but metal on the d…

Should I pay my loan off first or my car? So my apr on my car is 22% and my apr on my conventional loan is 28% im under on my car, a year and a half later and I still owe $9500 on the $14,500 and about a year later on my $5000 conventional $4000 owed $2500 payed bought a car from the wrong place got a loan for a business that never did anything, but I have the option to pay it off for $…

LPT: If you always leave your headlights on automatic on your car, double check them after you get your car back from the repair shop/valet Most times that my car is repaired or valeted, the repairman/valet turns my headlights off. Since I’m so used to my headlights being on automatic, there’s a handful of times I picked up my car and drove around in the evening without realizing my headlights were still off. This might mostly apply to people who live in areas with more light pollu…

Make This Street-Legal Ferrari Race Car Your New Daily Driver And Be As Cool As You Are Uncomfortable There is an old French adage that goes “one must suffer to be beautiful.” I don’t know much about that, but I would posit that one certainly must suffer to be truly cool. Everything in this world worth experiencing has a bit of a hard edge to it, a thing you have to give up to get it. That’s how cool is built. And if… Read more…

Watch A Car Briefly Serve As A Plane Before Crashing Into House Drivers have jumped all kinds of mad stuff in recent months, including one who got airborne jumping over a low-loader on a highway. Now, a driver in California got some serious air and managed to hop over a parked pickup truck before smashing into a garage. Read more…

What’s Your Favorite Celebrity Car? For whatever reason, people are enamored with celebrities, but as a car person I care more about celebrities’ cars than their latest tropical vacation or newest starring role. Celebrities are known to have some of the most ostentatious cars, but also some more mundane rides, too. If you’re a big Kardashian fan, then… Read more…

Buying a car tomorrow I’m getting 1.9% for 48 months. I was planning on doing $15-$20k down, but should I put excess into a CD @ ~5% instead? What would my best move be here?? Edit to add: buying a 24 outback wilderness with all extras @ $39,900 which is way below any of the other 5 dealerships I was working with. None of the other dealerships were interested in talk…

Used Car Buying Horror Stories, As Told By Jalopnik Readers Sometimes I wonder if the car-buying process is ever good, easy, or enjoyable. Sometimes I wonder if there are specific caveats that dictate used car buying must be especially terrible. This week, I asked the fine readers of Jalopnik dot com about their horrible used-car buying experiences, and you all delivered. From… Read more…

I financed a car and now a week and a half later they want more money, again I just got a used car for about 18-19K. my first choice was a vehicle for a newer model of the current one i have. But i was told i didn’t have enough down payment. so I settle for a slightly older model (2 years) for $1K less of a down payment. (i ended up putting $1K down. for the other car they were wanting $2K) which was in my range. I signe…

What’s proper way to give a car to a child living in another state? My fiancée has been letting my college-aged daughter use her car while she’s in Missouri for college. As she’s about to graduate with her master’s degree and has secured a job there, we want to give her the car permanently. However, we’re unsure of the proper procedure. How can we transfer ownership of the car to her, considering it’s registered…

Tesla Cybertruck No Match For Car Wash After just a couple of months and a few thousand miles of ownership, Tik Tok user @captian.ad’s Tesla Cybertruck was effectively a several-thousand-pound paperweight for several hours. After taking his truck to the beach and stopping off at a car wash to clean it up, he parked the truck in his garage, where it decided… Read more…

Don’t Use Your Car As A Weapon We, as Jalops, all enjoy cars. It’s one of our defining traits. While we may get into our own debates about whether cars are better for pleasure or commuting, long trips or short grocery runs, there’s one use case we can all agree is bad: Cars should really not be weapons. Read more…