I love my wife - I love my wife - I love my wife - I love my wife... :WHT:
If you're on any OTHER part of this website, you probably know about my '92 Ramcharger, and perhaps my DD - my lifted Jeep Commander. Ever since FUDD got a worse idea :IDEA: - by eliminating the Panther platform, to build under-powered shiiteboxes... I've become a MOPAR man - 5 years running.
My wife DID have a beautiful '08 Grand Caravan SXT since 2011; came with EVERY option except sunroof. 3.8L V-6 spun the tires EVERY time I got in it (my Jeep and RC have slightly less giddyap to 'em ). And it was that beautiful Tangerine Sunburst color, with somewhat off-white interior.
UNFORTUNATELY... (I love my wife - I love my wife - I love my wife - I love my wife... )... she's just NOT a good driver. I mean, I take my Ramcharger OFF-road - drive over rocks, through streams, & through the woods, and it comes out muddy, but without a scratch on it. She manages to do more MORE damage to her van, driving in a straight line down the highway! :hair:
Soooooooooo... she comes home Tuesday afternoon after a doctor appointment and says, "I think I broke the van!" :girlpower::WHT:
To wit.
To FURTHER wit.
I saw the tiremark on the concrete barrier where I THINK she hit it yesterday - she got lucky she didn't flip the whole thing over, as hard as she hit it. And this on top of the $3000 damage she did a few years ago, driving too fast in the snow, and hitting the retaining wall in our driveway. :ugh I filed THAT one on the insurance, but I knew we were looking at $5k or more on this, SOOOOOOOOOO...
Three Rules of Minivan Ownership:
1) Never WRECK one you're STILL paying on
2) NEVER trade it in, when you're upside-down on value (which we DEFINITELY were after THIS!), and -
3) NEVER buy a NEW minivan.
Welllllll... <sigh...>... being over a barrel, today I took delivery of... this.
2016 SE Plus. Has 1 mile on it, here in the pictures.
I EXPLAINED to the wife... AGAIN... (I love my wife - I love my wife - I love my wife - I love my wife... )... that after interest, principle, oil changes, belts, hoses, tires, front end alignments, insurance, brake jobs, and other maintenance, this will be a $150,000 vehicle, by the TIME it's paid off! And it has to last at least ANOTHER 5+ years beyond THAT! I told her, this is the LAST new vehicle you get, for the rest of MY life (if I die, she can take the insurance, buy a Hellcat Challenger and go nuts - I won't care THEN).
Gonna get the TST undercoat (oil) and extended warranty, since we HAFTA make it last this long. Nothing takes the edge off getting a new vehicle, like the reality of financing. :surprise
Wife and daughter, about to drive away in my life (and next THREE lives) savings...
If you're on any OTHER part of this website, you probably know about my '92 Ramcharger, and perhaps my DD - my lifted Jeep Commander. Ever since FUDD got a worse idea :IDEA: - by eliminating the Panther platform, to build under-powered shiiteboxes... I've become a MOPAR man - 5 years running.
My wife DID have a beautiful '08 Grand Caravan SXT since 2011; came with EVERY option except sunroof. 3.8L V-6 spun the tires EVERY time I got in it (my Jeep and RC have slightly less giddyap to 'em ). And it was that beautiful Tangerine Sunburst color, with somewhat off-white interior.
UNFORTUNATELY... (I love my wife - I love my wife - I love my wife - I love my wife... )... she's just NOT a good driver. I mean, I take my Ramcharger OFF-road - drive over rocks, through streams, & through the woods, and it comes out muddy, but without a scratch on it. She manages to do more MORE damage to her van, driving in a straight line down the highway! :hair:
Soooooooooo... she comes home Tuesday afternoon after a doctor appointment and says, "I think I broke the van!" :girlpower::WHT:
To wit.
To FURTHER wit.
I saw the tiremark on the concrete barrier where I THINK she hit it yesterday - she got lucky she didn't flip the whole thing over, as hard as she hit it. And this on top of the $3000 damage she did a few years ago, driving too fast in the snow, and hitting the retaining wall in our driveway. :ugh I filed THAT one on the insurance, but I knew we were looking at $5k or more on this, SOOOOOOOOOO...
Three Rules of Minivan Ownership:
1) Never WRECK one you're STILL paying on
2) NEVER trade it in, when you're upside-down on value (which we DEFINITELY were after THIS!), and -
3) NEVER buy a NEW minivan.
Welllllll... <sigh...>... being over a barrel, today I took delivery of... this.
2016 SE Plus. Has 1 mile on it, here in the pictures.
I EXPLAINED to the wife... AGAIN... (I love my wife - I love my wife - I love my wife - I love my wife... )... that after interest, principle, oil changes, belts, hoses, tires, front end alignments, insurance, brake jobs, and other maintenance, this will be a $150,000 vehicle, by the TIME it's paid off! And it has to last at least ANOTHER 5+ years beyond THAT! I told her, this is the LAST new vehicle you get, for the rest of MY life (if I die, she can take the insurance, buy a Hellcat Challenger and go nuts - I won't care THEN).
Gonna get the TST undercoat (oil) and extended warranty, since we HAFTA make it last this long. Nothing takes the edge off getting a new vehicle, like the reality of financing. :surprise
Wife and daughter, about to drive away in my life (and next THREE lives) savings...