|
I was going to start a thread entitled "Bye Bye Civic...... nearly", but discovered the same harsh reality of owning a new car. My business area has recently changed and I'm now driving about 800 miles a week. My lovely, taut handling Civic has been doing my head in for about 4 weeks.
Long motorway journeys, crashing suspension (no different from when new, just spending a lot more time listening/ feeling it) can't conduct much business by mobile phone, cabin noise and suspension intruding too much. I decided to trade to a BMW 525d, yes boring compared to the Civic, but OOOH so comfey. Anyone who has complained about the comfort of runflat tyres has no concept of what road noise/cabin discomfort is!
Anyway, paid and financed £18100 for my beloved as speced below. Trade in value with 24k miles- £12050 by book, offered £13k against the BM. Finance outstanding, £16k, welcome to the land of vehicle negative equity. So the outcome, well if I didn't love my bloody car so much I could have justified, to myself but not the better half, having to finance an additional £3k on top of the price of the other car. As it has transpired, BM stays at dealers and I will HAVE to keep the Civic for another year or 2. Not the worst outcome, but overall gutted by the freefall depreciation in 9 months.
|