To everyone 19 years or younger with a car...

[jordanpp30]

Im 19.

Got my first car when I was 16... '04 Mustang.

Pops crashed my bros old car.. and the insurance company gave us more than what it was worth.. so we ended up with a mustang plus an extra 2 G's.

 

[speakup23]

Originally Posted by Wade187

SpeakUp23 wrote:

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joshhassolex wrote:

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damn, dude how much you getting paid?
anyways, i'm getting mines as a graduation gift

$7.20 an hour and only making about 260 every other week. I was planning on putting 50 in savings to save up but thats gunna take too long

But I wanted to know, especially to the people who bought it themselves, how they went about saving and such. i need some tips.



That's 520 a month. 4 months of saving all your dough or 5 months of saving most your dough will get you 2000. Or saving 50 a week you'll have that in 10 months. How the hell did you come up with 2 years? You tryna save 10 bucks a week or something?


Damn. IDK what math I was doin then

 

[a55a5in11]

my friend has saved his money over a year from working at DQ and he has almost 20g's saved up and he still has spending money.
hes talking about getting a older g35

 

[ev209]

18 gor my car when i turned 18. bough it with my own money took me 2 months to save up 2k lol

at you saving 2 years

getting ready to make a down payment for my new altima tho

 

[migit1209]

I have my car and im 17. A hand down though, meh...as long as it gets me around. I've always hated taking the bus xD

 

[damnneardeadstock]

when i was 16 i begged whoever i could to take me to work everyday: friends, mom, brother, etc.

it took my 4 months of intense saving to afford a $3500 car

but i felt accomplished

 

[waystinthyme]

got my first car at 15 1/2 (right after i got my permit; my parents wanted us to practice driving with our future car, instead of theirs, lol)

fully loaded '97 camry purchased in '03 with 60-70k for $9,700. me and my twin bro put in 2,000 a piece (we shared the car for 2 years) and my parentspaid the rest.

i would suggest saving as much as you can, like 80 or 90% not $50 every two weeks, so you can get the car ASAP. also show that you are putting effort intosaving money for a decent car and your parents may be nice enough to go half on it with you (or atleast pay something towards it). good luck...

EDIT: it's definetely worth buying a nice reliable car as your first car. i drove the camry junior/senior year of hs, all through college and am stilldriving it today with about 175k. so far i have only needed about $1,000 in maintenance ($500 of which were for brakes) and it's still running well. so iwould consider trying to convince your parents to go half with you so you can buy a $5000 car, or trying to save a little longer before you get it, although ido realize every situation is different.

-waystinthyme

 

[waystinthyme]

Originally Posted by SpeakUp23

Originally Posted by Wade187

SpeakUp23 wrote:

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joshhassolex wrote:

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damn, dude how much you getting paid?
anyways, i'm getting mines as a graduation gift

$7.20 an hour and only making about 260 every other week. I was planning on putting 50 in savings to save up but thats gunna take too long

But I wanted to know, especially to the people who bought it themselves, how they went about saving and such. i need some tips.

That's 520 a month. 4 months of saving all your dough or 5 months of saving most your dough will get you 2000. Or saving 50 a week you'll have that in 10 months. How the hell did you come up with 2 years? You tryna save 10 bucks a week or something?


Damn. IDK what math I was doin then

you were probably thinking about it this way...

if you save $50 each check, that's $50 every 2 weeks, or roughly $100/month.

in order to save $2000 at that rate, you'd have to save for 20 months...which is roughly 2 years.

like i said before though, if you get $260 each check, you need to be saving more than $50. i would save $200 minimum (assuming you have no bills) if youreally want a car. you can't save and spend at the same time...

-waystinthyme

 

[mindless2778]

I paid the $4,000 down payment and my mom takes care of the monthly payments after I paid the first 3. I worked my !*% off being a pitching coach, being anassistant coach on a different team, helping kids out on side sessions and working at a toy store. Took me more or less a year.

 

[sigmakidownz]

my birthday is on the same week i graduated, hence got a new car at the age of 18

 

[80jerryrice80]

hand me down from my moms.

 

[speakup23]

Originally Posted by waystinthyme

Originally Posted by SpeakUp23

Originally Posted by Wade187

SpeakUp23 wrote:

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joshhassolex wrote:

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damn, dude how much you getting paid?
anyways, i'm getting mines as a graduation gift

$7.20 an hour and only making about 260 every other week. I was planning on putting 50 in savings to save up but thats gunna take too long

But I wanted to know, especially to the people who bought it themselves, how they went about saving and such. i need some tips.

That's 520 a month. 4 months of saving all your dough or 5 months of saving most your dough will get you 2000. Or saving 50 a week you'll have that in 10 months. How the hell did you come up with 2 years? You tryna save 10 bucks a week or something?

Damn. IDK what math I was doin then

you were probably thinking about it this way...

if you save $50 each check, that's $50 every 2 weeks, or roughly $100/month.

in order to save $2000 at that rate, you'd have to save for 20 months...which is roughly 2 years.

like i said before though, if you get $260 each check, you need to be saving more than $50. i would save $200 minimum (assuming you have no bills) if you really want a car. you can't save and spend at the same time...

-waystinthyme

yea thats exactly the math I did. But yea youre right 50 dollars isnt gunna cut it at all. I guess I have to man up and start saving more and stop blowing mymoney. I guess this will be a great opportunity to break some bad habits and good something good in the end

 

[93snakedfox]

My grandfather stopped driving so he handed it down to me.

 

[n o r e a g a]

Originally Posted by 80JerryRice80

hand me down from my moms.

 

[bjamez20]

i'm 20, but got my first car in large part to money from my uncle's will and my parents helping out.

now i'm saving for a new car and hope to have it by the end of summer. all paid for and earned by myself. it's gonna feel a lot better that way.

 

[miyaballer24]

I just turned 19 and I bought my car in February. (9k) Used student loans to pay for it with 3k of my own savings, and I will pay it off myself after Igraduate.

Acura TL-S.

 

[besthandsindm]

Moms and Pops FTW!

 

[Deleted member 41978]

i was 15 when i copped this bad boy... working at champs for a summer

how stupid of me...

i still dont have a full license.

 

[imasoleman18]

16, NEEDED my own car, i got outta school at 3 moms didnt get off work till 5, school tried to charge to "watch" me lol, but we got a loan and boughtthe car

edit: im 19 now though

 

[jumpmanjunkie]

never really owned "my own" car- all thru high school drove the sisters jetta when she wasnt using it, then i graduated and robbed the familyX5

, its basically mine for every summer now because i'm away atcollege the rest of the year

 

[jesusr23]

my pops let me borrow money to buy a 78 monte carlo

first car too

 

[omgitswes]

my FIRST car I got for my 16th bday and it was really just my dads old car. then when I graduated they bought me new one

 

[frankthekingdtx]

i got mine a month after i turned 18.i got me a 95 bmw 525i.
i worked for the summer after my junior year and most of my senoinr year and bought it with the cash i saved up which was 3200.
a year later i bought an 01 mustang for 3gs.
find a way to make extra money on the side,use whatever sources you have.it dont have to be drug dealing.!

 

[STooK]

just realize even if you save up 2k to buy a car, who's gonna pay insurance? if you are paying insurance, even if you are under ur parents name it willstill cost a fortune at 19. and i'm not even counting gas and maintenance.

 

[frankdolla]

Moms bought a truck and gave me her 2000 contour when i was 16, I turned 18 (october 4th 07) and traded it in for a 02 dodge stratus to get my credit score up(just paid it off last month). Lookin to save up some money to get a condo/townhome and then I'm probably gonna cop a 350z or mazda 6.
But if it took you that long to stack 2k, either you spent too much on shoes, or need to demand more hours.