Anyone here gone thru that experience recently?

I got a new car one week ago now. It wasn’t something I was planning on doing but we found something we really liked at a really good price. Slightly used, 1 year old with the standard number of miles for a one year old car. It is the color I love and a car I never thought would be affordable for me (it’s a Dodge Charger. It is inferno red. I am in love)

After some back and forth, we finally get a price and payment we know we can live with and afford. We then have to wait, even after getting loan approval, another TWO hours before the contract can be signed. Ridiculous, right?

We finally get to the accounting department, or whatever you want to call it, to sign the contract. While there, before we even get anything signed, we are BOMBARDED with other offers. Do we want an extended warranty for an additional $50 per month? Do we want gap insurance (WTH is that) for an additional $20 per month? And honestly, I think she hit us up for something else. I was so irritable that I finally said…we were told our payment would be this much, and this is the amount we can pay. Unless it’s included in that price, we don’t want it.

So, even before I get in my new car to drive it, the high of owning it that should have been immediate wasn’t there because the finance lady was trying to sell me insurance for “if” this happened and “if” that happened. It was a real downer and it kind of pissed me off.

Until I got in the car after signing everything and into the driver’s seat. It doesn’t have some of the fancy stuff my old car did (which had a car payment that was substantially higher), but it is a NICE car and drives so smooth.

My car rocks. And my husband thinks so, too.