We Have a New Four Wheeled Addition

Well we finally did it after ten years of sharing a vehicle, we finally bought a second car.  I'm serious we found a car for Wynn and actually bought it.  We've been talking about buying a second car for years and we finally got serious about it this year.  Wynn has been looking at cars for a while and I was beginning to wonder if she would ever find the perfect car.  Today August 11th 2010 Wynn finally found her perfect car and we decided to buy it.  

We were going to go down to Texas because Wynn had found the car she wanted down there, but she happened to check Autotrader right before we walked out the door and found a similar car here, at a dealership.  So we thought we'd check out the car here and if it wasn't right then we'd go down to Texas.

So off to the VW dealership to check out the car.  Turns out it had just been traded in today and they hadn't even finished the inspection.  After some negotiation we got them to pull it off the rack and let us look at it.  She wasn't pretty.  The little old man that owned her had parked her under a tree and so the hood had some serious oxidation on it and there was some hail damage.

The asking price was $9800 which we thought was way too much and so we handed back the keys and got ready to road trip it down to Dallas.  The sales manager who had not actually seen the car offered to take a look before we left and "see what he could do" about the price.  We offered $6282 as is due to the extensive bodywork that would need to be done.  He offered to do the bodywork for $7900 plus any engine work that would need to be done which would include replacing the timing belt and the water pump due to the mileage on the car.  Deal.

So we bought the car.  We handed them $1500 for the down payment and they offered $500 for Wynn's old Rodeo if we can get her running and get her here.  They are going to repaint the hood and fix the hail dings in the roof and the trunk, they are also going to do the engine work and let us take her to our private mechanic to have her checked out.

We will not have the car until next week and the deal is over if she is not up to our specifications, but I have a feeling she will be.  It feels good to have this over with.

Interestingly enough the sales manager's father in law is interested in buying our Airstream once we get a house.

What did we buy?

A Silver 2002 Volkswagon Jetta GLS TDI
Black Leather Interior
5 Speed Manual
Aluminum Rims
Rear A/C
Keyless Entry
Am/Fm CD (Soon to be upgraded)
Premium Sound (Soon to be upgraded)

We'll be upgrading the head lights and lenses
Tenting the windows (Immediately)
Custom wheels will be added later
We'll be dropping in a new stereo and taking the truck boxes out of the Rodeo and putting them in the trunk.
Remote start for cold days

By the way the TDI, if you don't know is VW's clean diesel engine, it gets 50 miles to the gallon and can easily be converted to biodiesel (we are currently looking into this). TDIs are extremely hard to find which was why we were willing to drive all the way to Texas.

Time for photographs.  These are not of the actual car but I was able to find some of a similar car online. I will post photos of the actual car once it is ours.

2002 Jetta GLS TDI

Remember this is not the car we bought.

It's like Christmas in there, ooh somebody's check engine
light is on.  

And this translates to cheaper fuel costs.

Black leather interior, yes I know this car is actually an automatic
but it was as close as I could find. 

Gratuitous TDI stock engine photo.

All of our audio work, the remote start and the window tenting will be done at our favorite audio shop in Oklahoma City Lower Soundz on North May Ave, across the street from the Nichols Hills Starbucks.  They did an awesome job on our 4Runner and we will always do business with them.  Here is their website http://www.lowersoundzinc.com/.  If you live in Oklahoma and you can drive to Okc it is totally worth it.  I actually plan on posting about what we went through with our 4Runner's audio and how helpful they were.

P.S.  I can't drive a stick shift so that will be yet another adventure that I shall be posting about in the future.