Car shopping, was Re: A shameless marketing ploy...

[cindysphynx]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "nlpnt" <nlpnt at y...> wrote:
>  Looking for cars is FUN! How often do you get to stick your finger 
> up someone's exhaust! 

LOL!  I'll have to remember the exhaust check.  That's a good one.  I 
am familiar with the brake pedal check (where you examine the wear on 
the brake pedal to guess whether it jives with the odometer).  I 
think I've also heard of the trunk check, where you check to see if 
the inside color matches the outside color, and you look for signs 
the car has been submerged in water.

I find new car buying far more upsetting than used car buying, 
though.  You go in as a reasonably well-educated, mature, and 
thoughtful person, but you are presumed to be a total car-buying 
idiot until you prove otherwise.  On my last such excursion (1992), I 
went by myself to buy the family car.  The salesMAN patiently 
explained that he sold a car to a wife once, and the husband didn't 
like it, and it was a big mess.  

Cindy (driving her car into the ground to avoid a trip to a 
dealership)