I expect any dealer will do this for you. Although you likely won’t get some of the incentives/discounts offered for their lot vehicles, you’re probably paying closer to MSRP. Most dealers just stock the vehicles in the popular colors with popular options in your region. If you are looking for something specific they can order it from the factory, or try to buy it from another dealer that has one. It’s worth talking to them about it.
Does equity/depreciation really matter if I plan on driving the car until it stop working?
It does if you’re paying $16k for a $14k car.
Should I be using the trade in value or private party value as the basis for my decision?
Private party or actual market value. If it’s impossible to buy one in same condition for significantly less than $16k then seems fine. Just want to make sure you’re fully accounting for the collision because it’s a black eye on a history report, no matter how minor. In your case, you have the advantage of knowing it was minor if you decide to keep but imagine asking about every used car with a collision report. Everyone is gonna spin it as simply cosmetic, so it kills you in the sales market.
Yup there are large networks of dealers who will swap cars with each other to get you what you want.
I’m not sure how customization works with each manufacturer but an Audi salesman told us that each dealership only gets a limited amount of custom orders allotted to them every year, maybe he was bullshitting us I never researched it further. If that’s true then if you’re trying to get something very specific at the end of the year you’re out of luck unless you can locate the exact model somewhere else and then you get to pay a hefty freight fee for shipping the car across the country.
So I’m emailing with a handful of dealers.
Man, they jerk you around on color so much, I’m thinking I should have specified the wrong color, then they’d produce mine.
Constant claims of unavailability. I finally said sure, give me a price on the higher trim, the one that’s easier to get, and suddenly that one is unavailable in my color too.
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Hey. Carjacking this thread and turning it to general ownership as well.
Y’all seem sensible car owners with a bit more experience.
Bought a new car a few months ago. Just got around the checking the tire pressure. Pressure was considerably higher than on the sticker. (Car was cold, just driven across the road to the gas station).
Any idea why that would be? Any advantage to having pressure higher than the recommended? I have a very very very vague (possibly imagined) memory of the guy at the dealer saying they had put extra pressure in…
Ordered my own gauge that will arrive in a few days so I can double check again.
The pressure is supposed to be measured before you drive, as they will gain pressure when the heat up from friction on the road. But from just driving across the street, that’s probably not it.
The temperature outside can also impact tire pressure. About 1-2 degrees of pressure change for every 10 degrees Fahrenheit. Warmer = more pressure, colder = less pressure.
More pressure increases gas mileage, less pressure decreases it. (Less surface area on the road = less resistance = better mileage.)
That said, if you overinflate them you’ll change the wear pattern (the center of the tire will bulge out slightly and the center will take more tread wear), potentially decrease the lifespan of the tire, and potentially increase the risk of a blowout (depending on just how overinflated they are).
That said, aside from having problems, I almost never check my tire pressure, and I assume that’s pretty common. But it’s good to make sure every now and then that they’re not underinflated for gas mileage/environmental reasons.
When you say considerably higher, what are you talking? Like if it says 35 PSI, I’m usually going to inflate it to 36-37 PSI just because I know a little will leak out when I test it and possibly when I put the valve cap back on, and I’d rather have slightly too much than too little. So I wouldn’t call anything within a few PSI to be significant.
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My car has chosen the worst time to start falling apart. Prices are insane right now. There’s probably no value in doing a 1 or 2 year lease until the chip shortage lessens is there?
Yea prices are crazy. We bought my wife’s vehicle in December of 2020 for $23,000 from a dealer. It had 18,000 miles. A little over a year later, it has 33,000 miles, and kbb says it’s worth $39,000.
How high are we talking? Having a tire pressure gauge is good though. Everyone should carry one.
The tires were filled up when it was really fucking cold out and now it’s warmer out? I woudln’t really worry about it unless the PSI is way higher then it’s supposed to be. If you’re talking a 3 or 4 psi differential, ignore it, it’ll go back down again on a cold day.
Two years later, yes I agree, I just ordered the new Toyota hybrid minivan. Paid fucking sticker price too, what a world.
About 4 or 5 psi higher than recommended. It was hot yesterday and cold when I bought the car.
Okay. Will check again when the gauge comes and it worry so much.
Anyone here use apple CarPlay?
I’m using a podcast app called overcast but when I use CarPlay I can only see like 15 of the 100+ episodes I have on my phone.
Any idea why?
I use both and have the same problem. No idea why. To get around it, I always make sure I have my next few podcasts I want to listen to already lined up on the phone.
https://www.edmunds.com/car-news/average-monthly-car-payment-for-new-car-636-dollars.html
But the vehicle shortage was in full swing by 2021, pushing monthly payments to $614 in Q3 2021. That rose to $636 in Q4 2021, the highest average monthly payment that Edmunds has ever recorded. These numbers coincide with an average rise in down payment, from $5,394 in Q3 of last year to $5,780 in Q4.
$636 average monthly payment… I guess I had my head in the sand because I had no idea this was a normal monthly payment. Maybe I’ll just keep driving my civic until it fully breaks down.
How the fuck is it so high? Is it just people with terrible fucking credit with notes that are like 15 percent interest?
About $30k borrowed, 60 months, 8%. Interest rate could be less, but the term could be shorter too.