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Hi! I need some advice abt buying a car. I have about 15-18k to spend. Should I buy a used car or should i lease? My credit score is over 780, I’m a student, and my driving record is clean. Any advice is appreciated
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Anonymous 4w

This might not be the most “fun” thing but, I seriously mean this. You need to go buy a $5000 used and reliable car. (Honda accord, yota corolla, acura, and then hold on to the rest of the 10-13k. Put it into some Investments. You’re young and if you do this you will be leagues above all your piers with security they only dream of.

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Anonymous 4w

Never lease. No upside at all. Look at reliable used cars.

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Anonymous 4w

By a cheap car and get .1 bitcoin

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 4w

This is wise.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 4w

With 5k the car I find is probably going to be close to 100000 miles tho

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 4w

So what? A Civic or Corolla has 150,000 left on it after that 1st 100k.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 4w

I have two Corolla’s in my yard right now that have both hit 350k miles. There’s no problem with buying one of those cars even if it has high mileage, I would look more at rust damage, maintenance done, and how clean the car is. You’re gonna find ones with “high” mileage yes but, if the owner has logbooks of every oil change, the interior is clean as a whistle, and the undercarriage matches. Well then brother you’ve got yourself a Nokia car

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 4w

Yes that completely true but, questioning him on it does nothing lol he’s the one asking. That’s why I’m helping explain it. The stigma behind high mileage cars has long been a thing and it’s completely valid to people that aren’t constantly working on cars or shit

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 4w

I leased because I didn’t want to deal with maintenance on an older car, came with free charging, and didn’t know where I’d be in three years and didn’t want to ship my stuff cross country if the time came. Also, very hard to sell a beater car as well in a big city

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