We live in car-mandatory cityscape, and I was paying out the nose just commuting with a used CR-V we were making payments on. I also really hate having to either spend a ton of time in the heat on YouTube fixing the things, or pay an extortionate fee for replacing constant part failures. The car gives me a ton of anxiety when it wants to make a surprise $2000 noise every so often.
Moving isn’t really an option, as we basically survive on pooled familial support.
I think a new car was the next best thing in this instance: We traded that in for a new Chevy Bolt EV because I couldn’t find decent used ones, the payment only went up a little (on a larger total yes), and it’s the cheapest EV in the county.
I hope it wasn’t a bad move. My logic is it gets 99% of the jobs done way cheaper, hardly any maintenance, no fluids and oils, and we’ve got solar at home in a VERY sunny part of the country.
I wanna keep this thing as long as possible, and we figured our income to pay it off would probably go up with the time and cash won back from fussing with the damn car all the time.
…Plus it feels like flipping off Donny FumbDuck and his oil buddies every time I start it up. So that’s nice…
But I really hope this wasn’t a bad move. In the meantime I’d love a more walkable city but that’s like moving mountains here…
We live in car-mandatory cityscape, and I was paying out the nose just commuting with a used CR-V we were making payments on. I also really hate having to either spend a ton of time in the heat on YouTube fixing the things, or pay an extortionate fee for replacing constant part failures. The car gives me a ton of anxiety when it wants to make a surprise $2000 noise every so often.
Moving isn’t really an option, as we basically survive on pooled familial support.
I think a new car was the next best thing in this instance: We traded that in for a new Chevy Bolt EV because I couldn’t find decent used ones, the payment only went up a little (on a larger total yes), and it’s the cheapest EV in the county.
I hope it wasn’t a bad move. My logic is it gets 99% of the jobs done way cheaper, hardly any maintenance, no fluids and oils, and we’ve got solar at home in a VERY sunny part of the country.
I wanna keep this thing as long as possible, and we figured our income to pay it off would probably go up with the time and cash won back from fussing with the damn car all the time.
…Plus it feels like flipping off Donny FumbDuck and his oil buddies every time I start it up. So that’s nice…
But I really hope this wasn’t a bad move. In the meantime I’d love a more walkable city but that’s like moving mountains here…
We’ve had our Bolt since 2019, and between that and my E-bike, I can’t help but chuckle when I see the gas prices in SoCal.
Just make sure you hound the dealer if and when any recalls happen. It took ages to get the appointment to do the battery upgrade.