Most ridiculous reason for selling/trading in a car...

[mobilezen]

Ex co-worker of mine owned a BMW Z3. Driver side foglight burned out so the next day during his lunchbreak, he traded it in for a Z4... Share your stories.

[mattchow]

thats enough reason for me to want to get the upgrade :D

[f.flintstone]

i worked with a guy that had an expired inspection sticker on his car. his solution was to get a new sticker which was attached to a new car...

[billbunton]

Originally Posted by f.flintstone

i worked with a guy that had an expired inspection sticker on his car. his solution was to get a new sticker which was attached to a new car...

Remember, that means the sticker is good for two years :-)

[Hogleg 44]

Well, I got a Toyota to replace my Taurus after the 'Check Engine' light came on, and came on, and came on, and came on, and came on.....

[Pikachu]

Originally Posted by mobilezen

Ex co-worker of mine owned a BMW Z3. Driver side foglight burned out so the next day during his lunchbreak, he traded it in for a Z4... Share your stories.

Stories like that make me wish I was still selling cars.....

[L Stegall]

Not a funny "trade in your car" story, but a funny "buy a car" story. When I first got out of law school, I went with my best friend to buy a new car. We were newly minted lawyers starting at big firms. She wanted a SAAB. So, we walked into the SAAB dealership and she said, "How much are the white ones?" Turns out, they had a "special" on them that day! They told her the price and she bought it! Guess she skipped that negotiation class in school. She learned real quick though....

[Stephen H]

Funny thing, I was just watching Spongebob last night, and Patrick got rid of his brand new boatmobile because the dial thingy got to "E" and it wouldn't go anymore- he thought that must mean "End".

[Hogleg 44]

Kind of like Stegall's story. I had a friend back in Mississippi in the 60's, who owned a drug store. He owned the only drug store in the whole of Marion County. He was the kind of guy that whatever he touched, turned to gold! He had a big home in Columbia, a cottage on Dauphin Island, A Super Cub, a Cessna, a Pitts Special, and a Gyro-copter. He and his wife had 6 kids, and all that were old enough to drive had new cars. But Jack always dressed as if he was going to stroll through the park...very casual.
His Wife's Cadillac was getting a few miles on it and she wanted a new one, so Jack heads off for New Orleans to pick one out for her.
He went into the Cadillac Dealers with enough cold hard cash in his pocket to buy anything in the house...But none of the Big City Fancy Suit's running around the place would even talk to this little guy in the brown slacks and knit shirt.....! Not a one of them. Nada!!

He left, went up to Jackson and bought her new car up there!

[Dsheree]

My dad buys new trucks instead of changing the tires. Once before he even need to rotate them.

[MarcoFromHouston]

Originally Posted by Hogleg 44

......But Jack always dressed as if he was going to stroll through the park...very casual.

......He went into the Cadillac Dealers with enough cold hard cash in his pocket to buy anything in the house...But none of the Big City Fancy Suit's running around the place would even talk to this little guy in the brown slacks and knit shirt.....! Not a one of them. Nada!!

He left, went up to Jackson and bought her new car up there!

Reminds me of a story I read about the ex Houston Texans QB David Carr....

I read he went into a fancy dealership to buy a new ride wearing cargo shorts, sandals, A&F t-shirt, & ball cap.

Finally, HE was forced to ASK for help from one of salesmen who was ignoring him.

He went home with an M5.

(I think he later became a spokesperson for that dealer, so he probably got to car for free anyway!)

[chenology]

Originally Posted by Hogleg 44

Jack always dressed as if he was going to stroll through the park...very casual.
His Wife's Cadillac was getting a few miles on it and she wanted a new one, so Jack heads off for New Orleans to pick one out for her.
He went into the Cadillac Dealers with enough cold hard cash in his pocket to buy anything in the house...But none of the Big City Fancy Suit's running around the place would even talk to this little guy in the brown slacks and knit shirt.....! Not a one of them. Nada!!

He left, went up to Jackson and bought her new car up there!

same thing happened to my uncle a while back when we were at a Mercedes dealership.. we were checking out cars and sitting there for at least half an hour and people looked at us and ignored us. so we decided that they don't deserve the business; he went to Lexus and bought an LX and wrote a check for the whole thing.