The Holtonian

Car Hunt: Over, Car Troubles for the Wife: Over, No Longer Driving a Piece: Over----mission accomplished!

So we've been looking for a car, as mentioned in the past few posts. We opted on looking for an Accord as SUV's are too pricey and we figure we won't need a massive car till we have 3 kids or so. I looked for the past few weeks for a used accord but chatty was just not offering much in the way of a good deal. Well I increased my search zone a bit and tried out some different car search engines and started finding a lot of stuff in Dalton. Some of the deals I was finding seemed to good to be true and I've noticed the stuff on the web is cheaper to make you get to the store then you realize they did the ole "bait and switch" on you. So we went down to Pye honda down in Dalton and weren't expecting to see much since we've had zero luck with the stuff we found online at the local shops. We checked out a few cars and they were all on the up and up. Certified, bonafied, and rectified.

We test drove a few and liked them they were around the $15,000 range with around the 50K miles. All ok, some had some nice features like a sunroof, a cd player here and there. Then the guy shows us this 2000 accord and we're thinking... "Well we want a newer one then that but ok we'll look at it" well he tells us the price. We're like, "Hmmm.. .thats a bit pricey for a 5 year old car..." We ask the mileage... 35,000. Thats about 10K mileage less than anything else on the lot. We test drive it, drives great, just as good as all the newer ones. And get this, all leather, cd player, sunroof, power everything, 100,000 mile bumper to bumper warranty, a clock (a huge deal for the wifey since she's never had one), basically the shiz version of the accord. All it needed was a dvd player. He asks us if we have anything to put down... and we go.... "Uh, that cavalier over there..."

Now here's where you gotta know something about car shopping, they're gonna get you somewhere. They'll either get you on the front end with a high price, or they'll get you on the back with crappy financing or crappy trade in. Well they gave us full blue book for the cav 3000 (it was worth about 1500 in my estimation---it leaked oil, windshield wipers didn't work, horn was broke, cigarette lighter didn't work [we don't smoke but we needed it for phone charging], bumper had a huge dent, also little plastic things had broken everywhere). So we got the car for a great deal, way less than what we could've gotten in chatty. I got a few pics but they're not great. I've found its hard to take pics of a car, hard to get the whole thing down. So if you want to see it you'll have to come over.

Its the wife's car as she is now Cavless, something she's rejoicing in right now. We really just needed something reliable. Its old but its got low mileage which is cool. They had one for the same price that was 01 that was in a better color and had a 6 cd changer but it had 50,000 miles on it. So we went for the low mileage. So check out dalton if you're looking for cheaper hondas than chatty offers. He says they get a lot of chatty traffic since the chattanooga honda places sell there stuff faster than they do and the chatty places can charge more.

We went to Economy Honda near the airport last night and basically a 2001 accord with no frills except power locks/windows with about 50-60,000 miles was about $16,000. So it saved us some serious moolah and we got a pretty sweet car from the dalton place. I might go back there for my element in the future someday if i ever get money again.

So the holton's have a reliable car finally. Now we can drive to Indiana for the thanksgiving.