car dealership hijinx. :P
Long boring story and pics behind the cut/link.
Previously I mentioned that the green Saturn had pretty much died a slow lingering death. I don't recall if I mentioned that it died the same day that we registered it for two years. It passed safety and emission inspections literally the day before, and then died. How's that for great timing? :P (or perhaps the state inspection people need to take a look at their procedure. lol)
The boy's been driving one of our cars back and forth to class, and it's a pain getting in my car after him since all the mirrors, the seat, steering wheel, radio/CD/XM are all wrong when I get in. lol
Anyway, we shopped a bit on Sunday because the salesmen aren't there to bug you on Sundays, and he decided he wanted to look further at a Honda Fit. We'd stopped at the dealer in south county (SOCO to those in the know), Dave Mungenast, and boy howdy, they haven't changed their spiel in 30 years, or whenever it was that I was in there last. When I traded my Monza (I eventually bought my first Subaru at that time, okay so that was an 81, so make that 27 years ago, not 30), I walked in the door because I was interested in looking at the Preludes. Well......the treatment was nothing short of shabby, probably because I'm just a girl, and what do girls know about cars, and where's your boyfriend/husband, honey...... Anyway, the guy gives me the old "if you don't buy it at this price (which was sticker plus a bunch of money for the privilege of buying from them), the next guy in the door will." Well that settled that, I turned on my heel (I'm sure I snorted at him.), and walked out-never setting foot in that dealership until Saturday, and that was under duress. LOL But my point is that their salesmen STILL give you that same old tired routine about how they can't get these cars, nobody else has them, everyone wants one, that car on the lot will be gone in 10 minutes if we don't write our check RIGHT NOW!!!!!!! Etc, etc. And yes, I literally snorted when he started in on that. The boys were giving me the eye because I'm sure they thought I'd LOL at the salesman. (he was smarmy anyway)
Huey's on S. Lindbergh had a bunch of them on the lot, and one of them was actually open. We all fell in love immediately! They actually had 3 manuals on the lot, two "Tidewater Blue" and a black one. They had a few of the sport models as well, but those are quite a bit more money than the base version. So how did Huey's have 7-8 of them when "nobody can get them and there's a waiting list"? Yeah, you figure that one. LOL
We went back Monday with checkbook, old plates (in MO the plates go with the person, not the car, so you can transfer them after you pay your sales tax, etc), trust pages, etc, and Nathan was able to drive one of the manuals on the back lot. He really liked it and decided he wanted to spend his savings on it. It's a very pretty car, and has a nice, tight ride. He thinks it's very close to the old one, but "newer and better."
We're thinking the green one might be a Goodwill donation because I honestly don't think it will bring anything and isn't worth trying to sell. It's a huge relief to not have to worry about him on the road. Well not that I'm not going to worry, but at least I don't have to worry about him breaking down in the green one somewhere. Wonder how long before his friends trash it with food wrappers, etc. :P
Previously I mentioned that the green Saturn had pretty much died a slow lingering death. I don't recall if I mentioned that it died the same day that we registered it for two years. It passed safety and emission inspections literally the day before, and then died. How's that for great timing? :P (or perhaps the state inspection people need to take a look at their procedure. lol)
The boy's been driving one of our cars back and forth to class, and it's a pain getting in my car after him since all the mirrors, the seat, steering wheel, radio/CD/XM are all wrong when I get in. lol
Anyway, we shopped a bit on Sunday because the salesmen aren't there to bug you on Sundays, and he decided he wanted to look further at a Honda Fit. We'd stopped at the dealer in south county (SOCO to those in the know), Dave Mungenast, and boy howdy, they haven't changed their spiel in 30 years, or whenever it was that I was in there last. When I traded my Monza (I eventually bought my first Subaru at that time, okay so that was an 81, so make that 27 years ago, not 30), I walked in the door because I was interested in looking at the Preludes. Well......the treatment was nothing short of shabby, probably because I'm just a girl, and what do girls know about cars, and where's your boyfriend/husband, honey...... Anyway, the guy gives me the old "if you don't buy it at this price (which was sticker plus a bunch of money for the privilege of buying from them), the next guy in the door will." Well that settled that, I turned on my heel (I'm sure I snorted at him.), and walked out-never setting foot in that dealership until Saturday, and that was under duress. LOL But my point is that their salesmen STILL give you that same old tired routine about how they can't get these cars, nobody else has them, everyone wants one, that car on the lot will be gone in 10 minutes if we don't write our check RIGHT NOW!!!!!!! Etc, etc. And yes, I literally snorted when he started in on that. The boys were giving me the eye because I'm sure they thought I'd LOL at the salesman. (he was smarmy anyway)
Huey's on S. Lindbergh had a bunch of them on the lot, and one of them was actually open. We all fell in love immediately! They actually had 3 manuals on the lot, two "Tidewater Blue" and a black one. They had a few of the sport models as well, but those are quite a bit more money than the base version. So how did Huey's have 7-8 of them when "nobody can get them and there's a waiting list"? Yeah, you figure that one. LOL
We went back Monday with checkbook, old plates (in MO the plates go with the person, not the car, so you can transfer them after you pay your sales tax, etc), trust pages, etc, and Nathan was able to drive one of the manuals on the back lot. He really liked it and decided he wanted to spend his savings on it. It's a very pretty car, and has a nice, tight ride. He thinks it's very close to the old one, but "newer and better."
We're thinking the green one might be a Goodwill donation because I honestly don't think it will bring anything and isn't worth trying to sell. It's a huge relief to not have to worry about him on the road. Well not that I'm not going to worry, but at least I don't have to worry about him breaking down in the green one somewhere. Wonder how long before his friends trash it with food wrappers, etc. :P