Potentially youngest S2000 owner?
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Im an 18 year old planning to purchase soon... I was in the same situation as you but I decided to wait until I had more money saved for a down payment. (10% is a little low)
Make sure that you can easily afford the payments, you don't want to go into college with high monthly payments while concentrating on school. Keep looking around local postings for one that is in good condition, and preferably 1 owner who takes good care of their cars. You can find a good solid s2k for 15k, with somewhat low millage, as long as you don't really care about what color/ color combo you buy. Find out how much you can realistically afford per month, then spend a good amount of time looking for the right car for you according to what you can afford to pay.
Not sure if you've used something like this before, but its very helpfull to see how much you can afford to buy.
http://www.cars.com/go/advice/financing/ca...fordability=yes
Make sure you have enough money to pay for maintenance, (big and small, tires etc.)
What I personally ended up doing differently is getting a college credit card and started building up my own credit score to help get a better loan rate with my parents cosigning.
Goodluck!
Make sure that you can easily afford the payments, you don't want to go into college with high monthly payments while concentrating on school. Keep looking around local postings for one that is in good condition, and preferably 1 owner who takes good care of their cars. You can find a good solid s2k for 15k, with somewhat low millage, as long as you don't really care about what color/ color combo you buy. Find out how much you can realistically afford per month, then spend a good amount of time looking for the right car for you according to what you can afford to pay.
Not sure if you've used something like this before, but its very helpfull to see how much you can afford to buy.
http://www.cars.com/go/advice/financing/ca...fordability=yes
Make sure you have enough money to pay for maintenance, (big and small, tires etc.)
What I personally ended up doing differently is getting a college credit card and started building up my own credit score to help get a better loan rate with my parents cosigning.
Goodluck!
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i'm almost 19 i've worked my living ass off to buy and s2k and own it. Don't let jelous ppl diss on you as long as you work for it they can't say a word.
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get one, then take it to a track day or autox after a couple of months, then you can lose control, take out a couple of cones or get a little dirt on the rims and you'll be light years ahead of where you were that morning before you went.
#17
Originally Posted by theonlineguy,Aug 20 2008, 07:49 PM
Im an 18 year old planning to purchase soon... I was in the same situation as you but I decided to wait until I had more money saved for a down payment. (10% is a little low)
Make sure that you can easily afford the payments, you don't want to go into college with high monthly payments while concentrating on school. Keep looking around local postings for one that is in good condition, and preferably 1 owner who takes good care of their cars. You can find a good solid s2k for 15k, with somewhat low millage, as long as you don't really care about what color/ color combo you buy. Find out how much you can realistically afford per month, then spend a good amount of time looking for the right car for you according to what you can afford to pay.
Not sure if you've used something like this before, but its very helpfull to see how much you can afford to buy.
http://www.cars.com/go/advice/financing/ca...fordability=yes
Make sure you have enough money to pay for maintenance, (big and small, tires etc.)
What I personally ended up doing differently is getting a college credit card and started building up my own credit score to help get a better loan rate with my parents cosigning.
Goodluck!
Make sure that you can easily afford the payments, you don't want to go into college with high monthly payments while concentrating on school. Keep looking around local postings for one that is in good condition, and preferably 1 owner who takes good care of their cars. You can find a good solid s2k for 15k, with somewhat low millage, as long as you don't really care about what color/ color combo you buy. Find out how much you can realistically afford per month, then spend a good amount of time looking for the right car for you according to what you can afford to pay.
Not sure if you've used something like this before, but its very helpfull to see how much you can afford to buy.
http://www.cars.com/go/advice/financing/ca...fordability=yes
Make sure you have enough money to pay for maintenance, (big and small, tires etc.)
What I personally ended up doing differently is getting a college credit card and started building up my own credit score to help get a better loan rate with my parents cosigning.
Goodluck!
#19
17 y/o here . Imo try to find an 03, 03 might be the newest year s2k you can get for around 15k . newer will usually leave you with less problems as more kinks will have been worked out . not to mention 02's and 03's have the glass rear window which is a big plus
#20
Originally Posted by Ferboi,Aug 21 2008, 01:35 AM
17 y/o here . Imo try to find an 03, 03 might be the newest year s2k you can get for around 15k . newer will usually leave you with less problems as more kinks will have been worked out . not to mention 02's and 03's have the glass rear window which is a big plus