Quote: Originally posted by Hendo on 04 October 2006
Sundeep - in terms of your financial/emotional dilemna - take this well intentioned advice from planet 'oldfart'.
If your 'ducks are in a row' so to speak in how you view your immediate and future lifestyle, and the upgrade car is not going to bankrupt you before you've driven it, then you go for it. Too many people operate at the extremes, either overstretching themselves stupidly, or just as bad, never 'treating themselves' when they had the opportunity for fear of what maybe round the corner. If you do it, and 'solids colide with the airconditioning' financially later, then it has to go - simple. But doing it when you have the opportunity, is always gonna be better than regretting the fact that you could have done it and never did. When the chance for the C4S came up, I went through the should I/should'nt I. A lot to do with the "1 parent family/growing up on a council housing estate/people just dont spend in excess of 40k on a car" kind of background I suppose, but Mrs H was pretty straightforward, go for it, and if we need to cinch the belt dramatically for any reason, then it may have to go.
Check your ducks and make a choice - it'll be the right one :wink:
the force is strong with this one ! :wink: