How does this sound?

Alright me and my friend were gonna go swimming today, drove by a car dealer shit saw a 90 hatchback marked for 2395. On the way back I stoped by and took a look at it, it was a 1990 Honda Hatchback DX, 5spd tranny looks like it was keyed once on the right rear panel, and some rust on the left rear panel, went in and asked the guy if he would do trades for the cars, he said yea and he would be able to give me 800 bucks for my car. The DX had about 109,850 miles on it..does this sound like a good plan?

and plus, I tryed talking to my rents about it..but there hard to convince when it comes to cars..any help on that?

whats your car?

1990 honda civic sedan LX Automatic

seems a bit expensive for the DX hatch. Try to talk him down a little but the rest is opinion. I would do it because i love the hatchbacks. Your getting the same motor with probably less miles on it and a different body style, if you like it a lot then go for it, its all up to you in the end.

adam i hope you get that hatch!!!! i just want you to stay in the 4th gen family, and get rid of that auto:bloated: anyhow find out the blue book price which is definitely not 2395 and go to him and tell him you want this car but you know how much its worth and he will go down lower. good luck

thanks, i want this hatch so bad..but the only thing stoping me right now is my parents..what should i do?

how old are you?

tell them you will pay them back try to get him down to 1800 and then you only owe them 1000

im only 17

but my mom was saying how oh you liked your car when you got it..so its not the money that im worried about..its just my parents

adam i hope you get that hatch!!!! i just want you to stay in the 4th gen family, and get rid of that auto anyhow find out the blue book price which is definitely not 2395 and go to him and tell him you want this car but you know how much its worth and he will go down lower. good luck
woah, I thought that was directed at me cuz my name is adam too. Just a bit confused for a second :wink:

If i can remember the blue book price on the car is only about 2100 or 2200, so you should actually be able to talk him down to about 1850 cause of the rust and the key mark. I got mine from a dealer ship, , A 1990 hatchback with 125000 miles on it, and was in prety much perfect condition. He was askin 1900 for it, but i got him talked down to 1450. So in my opinion if you can talk him down some you should jump on the chance

and what is the kelly blue book price on my car? also do you think if i would get rid of the hood pins, and get new interior pieces that i would get a little more?

tell ur parents ull pay em back and jus move out coincidently b4 u get the chance

so would that sound like a good deal. trading my car for the hatchback, and me getting 800 bucks from the dealership? And plus I took out a loan from the bank for my sedan so i still have about a year to pay off yet, so if I would get this hatchback, would I have to pay off the rest of the money, or would I just continue paying it regular?

sounds like a good deal. Get the hatch, put the $800 towards what you still owe the bank on your 4 door and keep paying that off.

If you already have any amount of debt to a bank, or even your parents, just hold on to the car you have now until you have all your bills paid off... and after that's done you can sell your car out right and get more then the $800 a dealership would give you. Only at that point would I consider looking around at other cars though.

yea i guess ill do that, its just its so hard to actually find a car this good of condition for this year, but yea i guess ill wait clean this car up..get rid of those frigan hood pins, and just make it so I can sell it for more..i looked at the kelly blue book for my car..it says 4200..does that sound like a good price?

Originally posted by EFStali
i looked at the kelly blue book for my car..it says 4200..does that sound like a good price?

That sounds way high to me

too high it will never sell you could get 3000 if the miles arent too high and its clean

Originally posted by Killa_CRX
If you already have any amount of debt to a bank, or even your parents, just hold on to the car you have now until you have all your bills paid off... and after that's done you can sell your car out right and get more then the $800 a dealership would give you. Only at that point would I consider looking around at other cars though.

:werd:

MY thoughts...

.....two questions. The bank loan that I got, if I would trade cars I would have to pay the money right away for the bank correct becuase the title would of changed? Also my car is considerd a luxury car and I pay close to $500.00 every 4 months on car insurance, how much do you think a trade of these vehicles would affect the cost of insurance? Thanks

Originally posted by EFStali
MY thoughts...

.....two questions. The bank loan that I got, if I would trade cars I would have to pay the money right away for the bank correct becuase the title would of changed? Also my car is considerd a luxury car and I pay close to $500.00 every 4 months on car insurance, how much do you think a trade of these vehicles would affect the cost of insurance? Thanks

Here's what would happen... if you were to trade in your car while still owing the bank money, the dealership that is doing the trade in for you would end up paying the car off for you... But say they were going to give you $800 for your trade in, but you still owe $1,600 to the bank for your current car... what they would do is pay the bank off, 'give you' $800 for your trade in, but still add $800 to the price of the car you are buying from them in order to get their money back from paying the bank off in full... plus the loan they give you will probably be at a higher interest rate then the current loan you have on your current car. So in reality, you'll end up paying a lot more by getting a different car then you thought... and you will also end up getting next to nothing for your car as a trade in, in the end.

I was a part time car sales man once uppon a time.. trust me on this.

ha ha..alright ill trust you, so it would be wiser to just pay off the bank and then sell the car privatly? now i gotcha.

Originally posted by EFStali
ha ha..alright ill trust you, so it would be wiser to just pay off the bank and then sell the car privatly? now i gotcha.

You got it :bigthumb: