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So here's the deal. We have the wifes new lexus, which she drives all the time. We've got a 7 year old expedition with under 50k miles on it thats got never ending problemitis, and thats my primary driver and the baby hauler. And a six year old rav4 with under 30k miles that's been used as "the dogmobile" for the last 5 years. Full of hair and smells like dog. Ted ate the rear seatbelts out of it when he was a baby (thankfully he's gotten over that phase), which I presume will be a major expense to replace.
It seems theres a fire sale on Honda Pilots. I can get a base LX model, which has everything I need in it, for about $22,600 marked down from almost $28k. Thats a pretty sweet deal that's hard to turn down.
I'm thinking of selling the expedition private sale with a little light disclosure about what I know isnt quite right with it...I might get 10-11k for it. Buy the pilot. Keep the rav as the dog mobile/crap hauler.
Alternatively, I spend a couple of days scrubbing out the rav, put the baby seat in that, make that my primary driver and baby hauler. Then either keep the expedition as the dogmobile/crap hauler or sell it and the dogs get no more car rides. Which is the highlight of their day in keeping with that whole thing about being a sucker for animals.
Cleaning up the rav and selling the expedition makes the most financial sense.
But thats one sweet deal on that Pilot. And it'd be a lot more reliable and get better mileage than the expedition.
Last two qualifiers are that I might have to hang on to the expedition for 2-6 months until the current "holy ****, look at how much gas is" thing expires, and I have to drive to a dealer thats about 2.5 hours each way to get this deal. Nobody else will come close to the price thats nearer. Hondas paying the dealers $2k in dealer cash to move the cars this month, and this dealer is willing to hand that over to me and make about $350 on the car total. The other dealers are pretending they never heard about the dealer cash thing.
So what would you do?
It seems theres a fire sale on Honda Pilots. I can get a base LX model, which has everything I need in it, for about $22,600 marked down from almost $28k. Thats a pretty sweet deal that's hard to turn down.
I'm thinking of selling the expedition private sale with a little light disclosure about what I know isnt quite right with it...I might get 10-11k for it. Buy the pilot. Keep the rav as the dog mobile/crap hauler.
Alternatively, I spend a couple of days scrubbing out the rav, put the baby seat in that, make that my primary driver and baby hauler. Then either keep the expedition as the dogmobile/crap hauler or sell it and the dogs get no more car rides. Which is the highlight of their day in keeping with that whole thing about being a sucker for animals.
Cleaning up the rav and selling the expedition makes the most financial sense.
But thats one sweet deal on that Pilot. And it'd be a lot more reliable and get better mileage than the expedition.
Last two qualifiers are that I might have to hang on to the expedition for 2-6 months until the current "holy ****, look at how much gas is" thing expires, and I have to drive to a dealer thats about 2.5 hours each way to get this deal. Nobody else will come close to the price thats nearer. Hondas paying the dealers $2k in dealer cash to move the cars this month, and this dealer is willing to hand that over to me and make about $350 on the car total. The other dealers are pretending they never heard about the dealer cash thing.
So what would you do?