Another one bites the dust...
 

well damn it, after looking at the finances for next year and upcoming 4 years i think i'm gonna have to ditch the Z :shakes head: my fiance, soon to be wife will be attending vet. school for 4 years after she finishes her masters degree program. she won't be able to work and i'm stuck with all the bills. i guess in the long run though we'll be better off :ugh2:

sorry to hear that man, im sure you'll be right back in the game after a few years though.

if it makes you feel any better, Yellow should be easy to sell since there are so few of them around.

aww man :(
I just bought my yellow one..now who is gonna stick up for me when everyone craps on yellow :mad:

selling any mods you have put on it!? :tup:

its stock aside from k&n drop ins and 20% tint. i still think yellow is the best color out there though

All that means is when she gets out of school she's going to have to buy you another one. With a TT kit for interest.:icon17:

:iagree:

if she's making what i think she'll be making i'll probably go for a gtr. my salary is fine for me, including my toys, but not so good for another person with school expenses too.

edit: and you can bet i'm gonna have to find a yellow gtr

4 yrs will go by in a flash. :)

Got me scared with your thread title. My gf is studying radiology and is getting her MA. I'm also trying my best to balance the budget. As crazy as it seems, I'm going to force feed my car since it's the biggest project financially and pay it off as fast as possible. After that, it's working hard and settling down. Everything else is easy, but at least [hopefully] I can still enjoy my car.

while i can keep the car, i would prefer to have a cushion instead of living paycheck to paycheck. god this is going to suck, this was the car i've wanted for years and worked hard to get it and now after a year and a half i'm going to loose it.

Hope she's worth it.

your fiance can't do any part-time work? i remember my wife (gf a the time) sustained herself with her own money as a TA in graduate school... paid rent food everything on her own while studying.

she's swamped as it is now in graduate school and the workload will be more at ncsu vet school to weed out the one's that aren't in it to do good. i wouldn't want to put up the cash for the school and have her flunk out due to a part time job so i'll just have to wait.

that is what my girlfriend is doing also...paying for herself.
IMO..she better be willing to sacrifice what she loves and stop SHOPPING otherwise :gtfo2:

USMCASA- i see... have her parents help out as well (?). quite a burden you have to carry for their daughter.

ha, funny you should say that but from what they see is the minute we get married its my responsibility(which it is) so thats out of the question. her sister did well, grad of campbell pharmacy school and is making a killing now so i'm hoping for the same outcome. i can deal with a couple of years of hardship, did it in the Marines for 4 years. her parents wouldn't be able to help much if they would since they support their son who gets a house(no rent) and all the utilities paid for minus cable and who has 2 kids already. i'm just looking forward to the future and the next car.

dont get married until she's done with school? :ugh2:

and wats with this kid with 2 kids of his own and a house with all expenses paid? :icon14: anyway, your choice and well respected.

goodluck! :)

you sound like a very responsible guy ! gluck with everything !

u will be back... once you go Zlack .. you will always come back ;) ..

good luck

yea, no worries. She'll be making more money in a few years. Its cool to see this. 'selling Z because wife is going to Vet school and will then earn even more money' instead of 'selling Z because my wife is a b1tch and won't let me keep my car because she is busy getting manicures and food shopping'

+ 1

bummer.

for every problem multiple solutions
 

well both of you are driving something now,right?

i could save about 4 grand a year if I drove something else

in your case she could get money for school or sell her car

but that's why I'm single

Have you considered extending your loan period, the additional interest would probably be offset by the hit you would take on getting selling it. Plus you would get to keep your car...

If you can scrape by keeping it, i would look at the rest of the budget first...although i drove a POS for a few years while my wife went to school, now i have the Z and a toy car, well truck, that i'm building for the summer, ect. It paid off in the end.

Good luck with the sale! It will be better in the long run IMO and they'll probably have a 400z by the time you start up again lol!


I'm here bro! I got your back lol!

I highly recommend you or she work at a strip club one night a week. It pays well and you'll get to keep your car. She can probably earn more, but I'm sure there are some fat old women out there who will pay to see a naked young guy. There is always sperm dontation too, but it will take a lot of visits to cover a Z payment.

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I can't help but respect your decision. I'm kinda in the same boat except I won't be getting rid of a car I love...rather, I will be holding back on getting into a Z and that was after having everything set except my signature. I'll probably only have to hold back for a year or two, but I'm confident this will be the right decision in the long run. Since my lady will also be making a boatload more than me, letting me have my toy is the least she can do in exchange for my patience. In the back of my mind I have been hoping for a new RX-7 anyway. Hopefully Mazda sets it in stone in the next couple of years so everything works itself out for me. Meanwhile, I'll just keep stashing the cash away.

Sucks that you have to sell the Z, but it will definitely be worth it in the end. Good luck to both you and your fiance. Let's hope we're both part of the GT-R club in a couple years :tup:

Yeah right!

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When i'm feeling down.. this makes me smile ALL the time.. :icon17:

looked at the options on a cheap new car and will probably save in the neighborhood of 200-250 on a monthly payment, insurance will be another 100 savings. options right now are a new civic or used something...

I would get something that's used, but not too used if you get what I'm saying. Something reliable and comfortable that is cheap to maintain. If you can do it, you should buy it all in cash.

As an example, my mom bought an 09 Yaris w/ 15k miles for a little under $10k cash last year. She drives it 300 miles a day and doesn't get the oil changed till every 30k miles. It hasn't had a single issue yet and gets like 40 mpg. I've told her to get the oil changed more frequently once she told me she did it every 30k miles. I'm surprised how reliable that car has been though.

I am stuck with my 91 Volvo ( with 370ZGT number plate ! :) ) as i am also paying for her grad bills too. The volvo costs me nothing to run, dont wash it much, even when i park up at a supermarket i rarely even roll up the windows, nevermind lock it. Only insured for third party and its an easy car to fix since most forums have figured out what are the likely issues and how to fix them.

Buying a used pearl white by auction in Japan next year. Will have to throw on the GT stripe....can get the real GT then in a few more years after that when she finishes school.

actually Civic MT is not bad! honda MT is so damn smooth too.

Why not try one of the new Focus'? Or if size isnt THAT much of a problem, the new Fiesta?

went car shopping last night around to a couple of places. for the cost of ownership and reliability since this next car will be a keep till the wheels fall off go-for car to rack up mileage with i'm pretty set on a 2011 civic. can't beat the price since the new 2012 civic's come out in april and no one will want the last year's body style for a new car. while we were there we both agreed that when she gets in her job after school that i can get another Z or something along the lines of it so i'm looking forward to that.

WTF, why was the video pulled?