Have you made any mistakes when buying or selling a vehicle?

I bought a Daewoo, which was not a mistake because it was a low mileage used car sold at a great price and my intention was to drive it 3 years and then sell it when I retired, as it was my commute car and no longer needed. But I loved that Daewoo and did not want to part with it! Then the company went under and the value of it dropped. All came out well in the long run, though, because I ended up trading it for a very nice golf cart.

I'm sure my dad must have. He's become so good over the years buying and selling used vehicles, but I know there were times he lost money on something. That's how he made due when my mom had to quit working and hadn't got disability yet. And his friends would ask him to go buy them a car (always at auctions). My dad would find one, fix anything that needed fixing himself along wiht a friend, and then the person who asked for the car would pay him like 200 dollars. It got to the point people he never met would call him, telling him that a friend of a friend of a friend recommended him to find them a car. I remember one in particular I think he ended up taking a hit for $2,000. The money was from friends who thought my dad could kind of "invest" in buying and selling cars. It bothered him for weeks until he made up the money on another deal.

The only thing I really regret not keeping longer was my baby blue Pacer station wagon. Pacers were pretty roomy and you had excellent field of vision and they were so wide and low to the ground that they were stable under many adverse conditions. I usually let my husband pick a car and I have a really hard time telling him "no".

I cxan surely relate to what u are saying. For years i had lemons. I bought what i could afford but____. I always heard u get what u pay for & i did.

I miss my 1986 Chevy Beauville van. That van was the best! That van was built like a truck. It drove like a truck too. The van was 15 years old and had 100,000 miles on it. There is nothing on the road today that even comes close to that van. I never should have gotten rid of that van.

The biggest mistake that I've ever made when it came to buying a vehicle was that I let the salesperson at the dealership talk me into a car that I really didn't want when I bought my first car. You see, I really wanted to get a Nissan, but they talked me out of it not because of the price of the car but because of the cost of insurance. They said that I would never have been able to afford the insurance on the car that I wanted and talked me into getting a Neon instead. That Neon was nothing but problems for me, I had to replace the motor in the car, the transmission and the steering as well in the three years that I owned that car.