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Getting a loan after bankruptcy
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You can't trust any car, they are machines so they break.
Even a brand new car only has the luxury of a warranty.
There is a reason every car on a second hand forecourt was traded in by someone, it's fairly likely it has a fault of some kind they couldn't solve cheaply.
Don't get suckered into a Carcraft type ripoff.
Assuming every single secondhand car on sale by a motor trader has a fault that noone can fix cheaply would be the perfect argument you can have with yourself to justify spending money every 3 years on a new car......it allows the rest of us humans to buy good secondhand cars !
Thanks goes out to the poor sap who bought my current car 10 years ago and its still driving a-ok and only cost my less than a 10th of the new price."Dream World" by The B Sharps....describes a lot of the posts in the Loans and Mortgage sections !!!0 -
My car is a 2004 car with 138k on the clock. I paid 7k for it four years ago with savings.
my point is a new car (to you), doesn't mean it is reliable, nor is a brand new car so it's a pointless way of thinking0 -
tell_it_how_it_is wrote: »So strongly consider not buying a car because it could break? How absurd!
This really isn't difficult to grasp surely?
The argument is don't buy a new car thinking it cannot break.0
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