Buyer's Remorse

I bought another car this weekend.

Had to do it. The Geek Jeep was so decrepit, it would cost more to repair it than I could get in trade-in value.


I wasn't a smart shopper, though; the next day when I reviewed the paperwork, I found I had purchased a $2000 "extended warranty" (maintenance support contract) thingy, and I doubt I'll be able to get out of it. I didn't want it, don't need it, can't afford it. I just had an expensive Senior Moment, I guess.

Worse, I bought a [choke] Ford, after all these years of badmouthing Fords.

It could be worse.

While cleaning out the Geek Jeep for trade-in, I found an ISMI 170mm replacement magazine spring, three ISMI 140mm replacement magazine springs, four pounds of Vihta Vourhi, 300 rounds of reloaded .45acp ammunition with 200gr swc bullets and a case of Montana Gold .40/10mm jacketted bullets ... all of which I had stored in the Geek Jeep and forgotten about. So there is one more up-side to changing vehicles; it was the first reason I'd had to clean out the cargo area of the Jeep for a month.

Combined with the need for providing birthday gifts to my two children and one daughter-in-law this month, chances are good that my cash-flow concerns won't allow me to pay match fees for the 2006 SingleStack Tournament at ARPC next weekend.

But the value of the "found items" go a long way toward paying for the (hopefully unneccesary) extended warranty.

I'm thinking of having bumper stickers made up, reading:

Last Year I couldn't spell "Ford Driver", and now I are one!

Unless I'm unable to re-negotiate the financing on the new Geekish Land Yacht, if you're wandering around on foot in an Oregon IPSC range parking lot about a half hour before the next CCS Club Match starts, I want to warn you:

I have a working muffler now.

You won't even hear me before I run over your foot.

UPDATE:

Surprisingly, when I phoned the dealer Monday Morning, he agreed immediately to cancel the maintenance support contract and re-write the loan papers ... which he had not yet submitted to my credit union.

I went back to the dealership, where the finance manager had all but completed the new paperwork. We voided the maintenance support contract and the old financing paperwork (with my credit union) and activated the new one. Then, as frosting on the cake, he helped me find the key-pad-entry factory default code numbers so I could enter my own, personal code. In the end, he spent about an hour of his time to help me, at no cost to me at all. They didn't even charge me a fee for processing the extra paperwork, which I would have gladly paid.

I told him how much I appreciated his efforts to make me happy with the deal. I said I'd be back in a few years, and I would send everybody I know who was looking for a car to talk to him.

If you're in my area, looking to buy a car, look up G&J Auto Sales. Ask for Jeremy.