Okay...horrible night...need advice

I am out of a car... I need a car ASAP, but I am only 18 and my job pays shit. I need to complete one of those $1000 payout sites. Which would be best to pursue?

Probably v-bux but it's impossible to complete sites right now...

hmm well YGF has that instant cashout thing until mar 31 and they are $50 a ref. shrug

Would this be better -- Doing a bunch of under $600 sites? I just need to be sure I will get the cash.. no b/s..

I would get a loan or something.

[quote5c28201698="J4320"]I would get a loan or something.[/quote5c28201698]Haha lolz. +karma

i want more details, how r u out of a car? you didn't even explain your horrible night, what a dumb title, you should have just made it, need advice...

[quoteeca5091f00="tjwor"]i want more details, how r u out of a car? you didn't even explain your horrible night, what a dumb title, you should have just made it, need advice...[/quoteeca5091f00]

Well, I was trying to avoid saying that I am a 4.0 GPA high school student with 2 more months left until graduation and my vice-principal who hates me for proving her wrong on several occasions, searched my attendance this marking period and found two absenses which were considered "cuts" and dropped my credit for 4 classes. I start college in September and now she was trying to make it so I have to go back to high school in September for two days out of school...

Long story short, after a long discussion with my college admissions advisor, she told me I should pursue a GED...my first thought was, "NO WAY!". Although, now it seems like one of my only options.

My mother, a school teacher, took my car away as it is in her own name and said that I need to learn about responsibility. So, I moved in with my father and now I need a car for a million reasons.

I guess I was ready to type it...then got a little embarassed, but who cares, its a forum =/

I thought you were 40 with all that reverse engineering mumbo jumbo talk.

[quote05ff6d2608="bballp6699"]I thought you were 40 with all that reverse engineering mumbo jumbo talk.[/quote05ff6d2608]

=)

That made me laugh. +KMA

Consider yourself lucky that you had a car in the first place. When I was your age there was no way I could have afforded a car or even been allowed to have one.

I think freebies are a bad place to start if you are in need of serious cash...these sites take time...and start up cash to do offers.

I have money and a job... I am just looking for at least $2000 as soon as possible =/

Yup when i started doing freebies back in December i was super broke, and it took me atleast 3 weeks to make some money i remember the first site i completed was [bec6a313962]PS3.ordergiftsfree.com[/bec6a313962] for $500 8)

ask your grandma for her car, you know she never drives it anyways

[quote6fc1ecdc72="Armstrong"]ask your grandma for her car, you know she never drives it anyways[/quote6fc1ecdc72]

Your right.. she's dead lol

[quote0f0eb93767="JennyWren"]Consider yourself lucky that you had a car in the first place. When I was your age there was no way I could have afforded a car or even been allowed to have one.[/quote0f0eb93767]

Isn't it amazing how times change?

[quoteb6957ebfbd="JennyWren"]Consider yourself lucky that you had a car in the first place. When I was your age there was no way I could have afforded a car or even been allowed to have one.[/quoteb6957ebfbd]
Ditto. I had my first car at 18 only because my grandmother had saved up for the downpayment since I was little, and I had a job to make the payments. Nowadays I see 15 year olds that don't even have a license yet -- let alone a job -- getting cars. Which my kids resented when they all reached driving age. I relented and bought my two oldest kids one car (to share) when they were 18 & 19 years old. My son totaled it 4 months later, and I said "sorry, that was your only one. You can buy the next one." Now my youngest will be 17 in May and she's expecting a car this year. But with all her medical bills, that ain't likely gonna happen.

[quote1b98fb3ed7="dmorris68"][quote1b98fb3ed7="JennyWren"]Consider yourself lucky that you had a car in the first place. When I was your age there was no way I could have afforded a car or even been allowed to have one.[/quote1b98fb3ed7]
Ditto. I had my first car at 18 only because my grandmother had saved up for the downpayment since I was little, and I had a job to make the payments. Nowadays I see 15 year olds that don't even have a license yet -- let alone a job -- getting cars. Which my kids resented when they all reached driving age. I relented and bought my two oldest kids one car (to share) when they were 18 & 19 years old. My son totaled it 4 months later, and I said "sorry, that was your only one. You can buy the next one." Now my youngest will be 17 in May and she's expecting a car this year. But with all her medical bills, that ain't likely gonna happen.[/quote1b98fb3ed7]

Not just cars! I see spoiled little girls running around everywhere with their own cell phones at age 11+

Okay... a nice working, reliable vehicle costs around 300 - 400 dollars and insurace for a 16 year old male is roughly $50/month (assuming no accidents and on parent's policy). That's not a lot of money, and it doesn't take much competence or responsibility to keep the money to stay on the road. I recognize that cars weren't quite as cheap 10 - 20 years ago, but they were still affordable. Some of the comments thrown out in this thread have annoyed me almost as much as when I see a 16 year kid driving a brand new post-2005 SUV..

Honestly, if you were, or currently are, dirt poor and you think you're too good to drive a 300 dollar car, then what right do you have to insult some kid who saves up for the same car so he or she can drive his or her ass from work to school?

What kinda car can you get for 300 bucks?!?! I wanna know your secret. And your insurance ??50 bucks? where do i sign up? I pay minimum 70/month with Allstate. Most insurance companies won't give a 16 year old their own policy anyways, to much of a risk. The only reason i have my own insurance now is because my parents had me on their policy for a little bit, when i was trying to get my own insurance...all companies rejected me except all state.
I just took out a loan with a bank probably 7 months ago to buy a new car ..cost me like 14k. But at least I can almost guarantee there will be no problems for awhile .

But yeah, if a kid saves up his money to to buy a nice car...he should get a nice car.

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That was my $400 car - and it had no front end damage when I bought it.

[quote91e9c206c3="SonTenshinhan"]Okay... a nice working, reliable vehicle costs around 300 - 400 dollars and insurace for a 16 year old male is roughly $50/month (assuming no accidents and on parent's policy). That's not a lot of money, and it doesn't take much competence or responsibility to keep the money to stay on the road. I recognize that cars weren't quite as cheap 10 - 20 years ago, but they were still affordable. Some of the comments thrown out in this thread have annoyed me almost as much as when I see a 16 year kid driving a brand new post-2005 SUV..

Honestly, if you were, or currently are, dirt poor and you think you're too good to drive a 300 dollar car, then what right do you have to insult some kid who saves up for the same car so he or she can drive his or her ass from work to school?[/quote91e9c206c3]

First, I'd like to know where a 16yo male can get liability for $50/month, even on his parents' policy. Not that way around here. Liability for one of my daughters costs more than double that on my policy, and girls are cheaper than boys.

And as a parent, I would hesitate to trust a $300 car with my child's life unless I knew the car and its owner personally. Yes they might exist, but the decent, safe ones that won't have them dropping every penny they earn just to keep it running, are somewhat hard to find. After my son totaled the nice car I bought them, he went out and paid $1700 for a Buick that lasted him maybe 8-10 months before it broke down and he couldn't afford to fix it.

I've owned a $400 deathtrap before, and shudder to think of my kids driving around in something like that. It's one thing if they HAVE to, but if they don't? Forget it.

You sound like a 16-18 year old when you say things like this. Look me up when you have your first driving-age child and tell me that again. ;)

I have no problem whatsoever with a kid saving his money and buying his own car. What I have a problem with is kids who feel they are entitled to have it given to them (or at least have it made easy for them).

I have a car that runs I'll sell you for $500.

My stepsister's fiance is a dealer and can get me a good car for ~$300 at an auction. Insurance, I am not too sure. I am 18 with the upgraded license so I assume it won't be too much more than maybe ~$600 every 6 months.

Regardless of whether or not any of you had cars is completely irrelevant, the point is that I have responsibilities that require me to drive, and I need a car.

Don't be dissing on kids. I got my licence the day I turned 15. Actually missed school to go to DMV. While a sophomore and junior I worked 40 work weeks while going to school to pay for my car, my gas, my car insurance, my cell phone, booze, and whatever else I needed. These days kids are growing up fast. Yes, I too see spoiled bitches running around with fancy stuff their dad bought them but there is no way in hell they can have the same sense of pride in there 20 grand sports car that they got for graduation as the 1 thousand dollar piece o shit that I worked for three months straight to afford. Not all kids are spoiled but those that are will hopefully end up re realizing before its to late.

Try finding someone local who goes to auctions, Typically can get card very cheap this way, cars for under a grand that run fine as there on auction from people who couldnt pay bills, imponded cars etc, I got a nice car for a real good price with low miles

[quotec84f71c167="ClassAct"]Try finding someone local who goes to auctions, Typically can get card very cheap this way, cars for under a grand that run fine as there on auction from people who couldnt pay bills, imponded cars etc, I got a nice car for a real good price with low miles[/quotec84f71c167]

He could sign up for bargain.com auto.

I drove my mom's minivan for two years...

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You're damn right.

Well, Dmorris68, I can see where you're coming from; and from the sound of it, you had some nasty experiences - but I've never considered for a second that I would have been safer without a car for the past two years. I've never been in a car wreck, but before I got my driver's license I still needed a way to get around.. For years I would ride my bicycle everywhere, often exceeding 15 or 20 miles per week, but there was no where safe to ride. On the sidewalks, bicycles are illegal, and you're a fool if you believe that riding a bicycle in busy 40 - 50 + mph traffic is safer than traveling via car. Actually, at age 14 I was riding down hill on a state route, when some hag turned off the freeway at 35 mph and mowed my ass down. She later claimed that my body (since the bike went under her car), hit her windshield so hard that it shattered her sunroof to the point where it cost nearly $2k to fix. And guess who had to pay for that? - the 14 year old kid that had a letter sent explicitly to his name declaring that he was sued for "recklessly riding their bicycle into our insured". I was cited as guilty because I, being a cocky 14 year old kid, felt that, no matter what the circumstances, it was unfair to ever sue someone, so I readily admitted guilt - something I shouldn't have been asked to do after just having my head rammed into a windshield! Fortunately, my father had the sense to (forcefully) request that I be removed from the ambulance that had come to my aid before it could take me to the hospital. The sad thing was, I chose not to fight this lady on her claim, as I was eventually covered under my house insurance.

It gets worse.. Shortly after that I accident I decided that I should install a motor on my (new) bicycle so I could keep up with traffic. ^_^ Being the mechanically minded little kid that I was, I succeeded and had a bike capable of traveling 50 mph on tires 3/4" thick! Isn't that fun? I also installed bicycle pegs on the back of it - a carried my friends who straddle over the wheel and stand up while traveling at 40 + mph.. Okay, now that was just stupid. Fortunately the torque of the motor managed to crack the frame of the bike before I managed to crash the bike in speeds in excess of 20 mph.

And then I bought a small 175 lb Chinese motorcycle and got ran over by a truck... O_O yeah...

Four wheels have been the safest thing that ever happened to me - in the past 40K + miles that I've driven I haven't been involved in a single accident - and that makes sense when you're driving a vehicle that drivers of other cars can actually see.

That having been said, you're the middle-aged parent that's been kicking it on this planet for twice as long as I have. I'm sure you understand your children's needs and exactly what is and is not safe for them much better than I do. And especially, if you are middle or upper-middle class and can afford to spend a little money on your children to ensure their safety then I see no reason why you shouldn't..

Now, I've probably done more to convince you that I'm a complete dumbass who in all liklihood should be dead, than persuading you to let your daughter get a car. But really, if she's not driving, then who's driving her? - any one of her friends could be escorting her around in a car far shittier than mine, or worse, intoxicated. At least when she has a car you know who's driving and with the onset of new tracking devices we have means of tracking cars where ever they go - but that's more for my kids' generations than yours'.

there is an offer on primo dinero for car-auction.com it gives you all the sites for siezed car auctions and cars go for really cheap there...and you could possibly get a nicer one.

I am 18 years old and live in upper-middle class Jersey... drunk driving is everywhere as well as faulty cars. Remember, you can buy your kid a 2007 Toyota Corolla, but anybody can swerve out of nowhere and sideswipe them and kill them in a second. A car is a car. Althought my mother bought me a 98 Land Rover Discovery as a first car for that exact reason. I do a lot of highway driving, so I guess I do need to consider the reliability of the vehicle. Dmorris, your doing the right thing... I will never forget what my father told me the day I got my license, "This car can become your coffin quicker than your mode of transportation. You always should have a little fear when you drive, it keeps you alert and aware of your surroundings." Luckily, I have SEVERE ADHD which pretty much causes my eyes to circle my area 4000 times a second. I have never been in an accident and have never gotten a ticket.

I got my first car when I turned 16. I paid for every cent of the vehicle. If a kid wants a car, they can work and buy their own amongst playing sports and keeping up w/ schools.

While car auctions/police auctions sell cheap cars that look nice...you are getting a cheap car...My friends dad is a cop and bought his son a really cheap car at a police auction..it was a stratus ..looked nice no problems...but boy o boy does he have problems now...the higher the millage the cheaper the car gets in price and the more likely things will go wrong with it.

[quotecaffebd6a6="O4F-Manofice"]While car auctions/police auctions sell cheap cars that look nice...you are getting a cheap car...My friends dad is a cop and bought his son a really cheap car at a police auction..it was a stratus ..looked nice no problems...but boy o boy does he have problems now...the higher the millage the cheaper the car gets in price and the more likely things will go wrong with it.[/quotecaffebd6a6]

That's where I plan on getting my next car from because the one I drive now is a real piece. I have heard good things about car auctions because you can get ones that are impounded and seized from people and just sold cheap because they want to get rid of them as quick as possible. It is a gamble though considering you don't know the owner or history of the vehicle.

I've driven from when I was a few days shy of 15. My parents know I'm a good driver and trust me not to be an asshole, but I've been saving for a car since then, and I cannot wait until I get it, just to see the payout of all the work...which reminds me, I've got work tomorow, do you think people buy groceries on saint patricks day?