Looking for a small cheap car ASAP

RodneyWright · **Posted:** Thu May 01, 2014 10:57 am

Scott Johnson wrote:

You need to suck it up and make payments on a new, stripper model Kia Rio. You are never going to find an equivalent car to mom's old one, not at that budget.

That's simply not going to happen considering she's on a fixed income. I'm already adding some money to the pot for the car. Pam and here sister are already helping out in regard to elder care. No room in the budget for car payments. I honestly don't see her driving past a year. At that point one of Pam's sister would pick up the car. It's a bit of a juggling act right now...

Alec Moody · **Joined:** Fri Feb 15, 2013 9:02 am **Posts:** 299

If you can find one on craigslist - we used to have a 99 ford escort ZX2. It was extremely reliable over the 80k miles we put on it and I think you can find them really cheap. That generation of ford is new enough to not have tons of issues but old enough to still carry the found on the roadside dead stigma.

Scott Johnson · **Posted:** Thu May 01, 2014 12:25 pm

RodneyWright wrote:

That's simply not going to happen considering she's on a fixed income. I'm already adding some money to the pot for the car. Pam and here sister are already helping out in regard to elder care. No room in the budget for car payments. I honestly don't see her driving past a year. At that point one of Pam's sister would pick up the car. It's a bit of a juggling act right now...

Loan on a $6000-10000 car. Pay loan payments with the current $3K that is already budgeted. Sell car in a year when Mom suddenly decides to stop driving.* Mom gets a nice car to finish her driving days, and you might come out ahead in the end. If Pam's sister needs a car, she can have the loan in her name.

*By putting a 1 year window, a whole can-o-worms has been opened.

Scott Johnson · **Posted:** Thu May 01, 2014 12:28 pm

http://raleigh.craigslist.org/cto/4448893609.html
http://raleigh.craigslist.org/cto/4447510598.html
http://raleigh.craigslist.org/cto/4437506888.html (not a Buick)

Perfect grandma cars!

RodneyWright · **Posted:** Fri May 02, 2014 10:26 am

The search is finally over. We didn't find a small car, but we found a nice car w/ the help of Chip up at Atlantic Auto. We found a nice 2001 Merc Sable that just needs some cleaning up. It's bigger than we wanted, but it was hard to turn down a car that you can basically drive away. This Sable has the adjustable pedals and seat airbags, so I'm sure we can get this car to fit Pam's mom and we both feel safer knowing the car has airbags. Everything considered, this was a great find and in our price range.

Thanks for all the links you've forwarded, appreciated....

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