Mad at myself

[Keyan]

for the past week or so I've been beating myself up mentally. I have tossed around the idea of getting rid of my car and parting it out more frequently than not. I mean c'mon... I have a steady job, just a couple months more payments before the car becomes positive equity... why shouldn't I upgrade? I know I'll never get this car to be what I want it to be. If you look at it from a broad point of view, the lower the horsepower a car has when it starts out, the less streetable or daily-driver it can become the higher the horsepower you make it produce. I want a turbo car. I really want a Black Mark IV Golf GTI 1.8T. But I'm so mad at myself that months ago I had so many plans for my hyundai. I have a manual transmission in pieces, I have $100 tiburon hawk pads within arms reach for the tib brake kit upgrade, along with calipers that are at the shop getting powder coated as we speak...UGH!

I work for a Toyota/Volkswagen Dealership. I can get my hands on a 5spd GTI for around 12 grand with decent milage.

UGH. I wish there was a VDub community like the XD community. :(

[robs02elantra]

the reason that there aren't as many vw forums is that there are parts to be had for those cars...they aren't all online talking about what they would like to do to their cars, they are out doing it.

You know how stupid it is to sell a car before you pay it off, even with positive equity, but that doesn't matter. At the end of the day, you will do what you will do, make the decision and live with it.

[evan938]

www.vwvortex.com

[SuperGLS]

Yeah, Vortex is a damn good site. I actually stole the COTM question idea from one of their similar features. Anyhow.

Do you make more than $40K a year right now? If the answer is no then keep the Elantra. If the answer is yes then think about "upgrading." A steady job doesn't mean you have to get newer and better stuff. Why not have the steady job for a year or two and then consider these things.

Plus you have all that crap for the Elantra.

[ghrpdx]

Get that car paid off and buy a place to live ... then make the equity you build in the property go to work for you in a couple years. At that point, you will be able to buy and be able to easily afford to maintain your choice of vehicle. Keep the Elantra, play with it for a while and then just hold tight.

[subvibe99]

^agreed. keep it around as long as possible. paying for a new car is just going to keep you in the hole when you could start building equity now. I just started reading a book called "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" and it touches on these things.

[tharptroy]

the thing is that the hyundai has no resale value now, and it wont have any resale value in 5 years. you might as well drive it and get your money out of it....unless you want to have a nice car for some other reason, in which case, I'd buy another car and keep the hyundai as a beater.