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Originally Posted by Flounder
I'll start. I'm divorced (which might be partly explained by the following story), but when I was married I bought an old Porsche by "borrowing" some money out of my daughter's college fund.
Wife=not happy. I mean, really really not happy. I recall hearing the word "Idiot" a lot around the house for the next few weeks.
So have any of you ever wanted an MB (diesel hopefully to keep this in the diesel section) enough to risk problems with the Significant Other? How long did it take until you were forgiven?
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Then after having made all of those payments to get title to the car and once the warranty goes off and those $500.00 and $600.00 oil changes start kicking in; then it is much easier to get a little understanding from her if you spill over your budget a little in terms of a few extra thousands and a lot of extra time spent wrenching on the diesel. Four oil changes and your windshield washer fluid topped off is over $2,000.00 for the privilege of driving 30,000 miles and that doesn't include any real work that might become necessary like a tune up or fuel pump replacement or fixing a check engine light problem and etc.; so you should be able to sell it from there by showing how the cost to benefit analysis favor you in the long run; unless you are just as vunerable as she is at the Mercedes dealership, which if you are; then I wouldn't risk it and would take her lead.
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