How do people afford...

ZKindaGuy

Given the younger age bracket of most tuners I am certain they don't pay for it up front. And if they do its only because mommy and daddy are somehow helping them with most of the basic necessities such as food, rent, insurance, school and etc.

I also doubt that the majority of that same age bracket is saving up the money to pay for it because though they may be saving the money up for the modifications they are surely running up their credit cards on other thiongs they would normally use cash to pay for.

As for the older segments if they are modding it more than likely is by saving up and doing a little here and a little there though blower and turbo mods are realy not possible that way due to the repeated tuning costs that add up when doing it piecemeal. More than likely they are using their credit power to make the mods and then robbing Peter to pay Paul for 3 or 4 years to pay it off. And by that time they have spent enough on interest to have done the mods twice over.

I doubt if loans are being taken unless it is done against their retirement 401K investments. No bank is going to loan money on an asset that is viewed by them as a liability rather than an asset. Particularly after the wall-stree and bank debacle era we just experienced last year.

So I would say 99% of those doing the high-cost mods are borrowing out their azz in some fashion and ther other 1% can actually afford it without a problem.

And anyone who claims they can easily make such mods are just plain lying out the ying-yang.