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Look at this and tell me - how can we get a new car?

May 22nd, 2009 at 03:39 pm

We are not planning to until this one breaks, but when it does, it would be nice to buy a new car and keep it for 15 years, taking care of it well.

The problem is, we live in NYC. This is a picture of our bumper:





This is what happens to cars parked on the street (and that would be 90% of them).

I watch those small claim court shows where people SUE over a scratch on their car and I am amazed. They have a police report and everything.
Here police would not even come out for such reason. (if anybody bothered to report it). They would laugh at the thought.

It took 4 hours to get them to come when 3 of our tires were slashed (and that happened to like 10 cars on the block). They still did not want to take police report. So reporting anything is just not worth the aggravation or time.

We have dents on our doors.... people don't leave notes or anything - it is another world.

When we drive, we always note if there is a car with a new bumper in front of us and try to guess where they are from.

Luckily, we bought that car used and it already had scratches, so we do not care. But if we bought a brand new 30K car, it would bother us!

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7 Responses to “Look at this and tell me - how can we get a new car?”

  1. Ima saver Says:
    May 22nd, 2009 at 04:25 pm 1243009532
    1243009532

    Oh my gosh, that is amazing. I have 3 corvettes. I bought the 1978 corvette new in 1978. It still does not have one scratch on it and neither do the two newer ones. My husband would have a heart attack if any of his cars got scratched! I guess I will never move to a big city. We live in a small town and I still park way way out in the parking lot away from all cars.

  2. simpleyme Says:
    May 22nd, 2009 at 04:29 pm 1243009778
    1243009778

    thats why I hate the stupid painted bumpers, you need an old fashion car with a metal bumper it would protect your car and damage the cars that hit you ;-)

  3. dmontngrey Says:
    May 22nd, 2009 at 04:45 pm 1243010732
    1243010732

    One of the MANY reasons why I could never have a new car - I would freak about scratches! My car was a year old when I bought it, but I still was ready to kill someone when a lady in a brand new BMW bounced a kid and his bike off the side of my car. I was stopped at a light when it happened. I fumed for a few days and then decided the $300 I got was worth leaving the dent there. Smile

    I miss my 1990 Jetta. That thing had a SOLID, black plastic bumper. I got hit pretty hard by an Xterra and it barely left a scratch.

  4. Nika Says:
    May 22nd, 2009 at 05:07 pm 1243012062
    1243012062

    That is one of the reasons it is not an easy decision.
    Having to worry, even a little, about our car every time we park it, would be taking away from our quality of life.
    Driving oneself crazy over a cosmetic issue like a scratch? Is it worth it?

    I like having the normal, "sane" attitude about our car: "It is just a car!"
    It has a dollar value attached, but is not our "baby", a reflection of our ego, a symbol of anything... It is a mode of transportation. That is a very freeing attitude and I'm afraid to loose it.
    Does it mean I could never have a new car? I admit, 50mpg Prius is tempting.

    I know my feelings about a car will never go to extreme. I remember an example: DH's co-worker was in a crush. When she called her husband he asked her how the car was before he asked her how she was.

  5. merch Says:
    May 22nd, 2009 at 06:13 pm 1243016009
    1243016009

    I always had off street parking when I lived in the city.

  6. whitestripe Says:
    May 23rd, 2009 at 01:54 am 1243043694
    1243043694

    i remember when my car was new (i mean new to me, it was 9 years old when i bought it!) i was a little worried about damage to my car, as it was something i had just bought, but the girl who owned it before me had scratched the door with her keys every time she went to unlock it - so i was sort of a little relaxed about it. i am glad i have a similar attitude, because people with shopping trolleys here are pretty much the same as drivers in nyc, by the looks of it. they just dont care!

  7. lizajane Says:
    May 23rd, 2009 at 04:59 am 1243054772
    1243054772

    I'm pretty relaxed too, maybe too relaxed. Some things I've driven are way beyond their pretty life, and it doesn't bother me....up to a point. So then we upgrade to something newer, but never new. I just don't notice scratches or dings, so having something brand new would be wasted on me!

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