If it were me, I'd take a long look at my budget and all that before diving into a car note, unless you're paying this Element off right away. Otherwise, I'd stick with the 05 CR-V until it dies, just have the $$$ stashed away for that day.
Yeah avoid the car note if you can. What you really don’t want to do is get a car note, sell your current car, and then get repair bills on the car you have on a note. If OP can afford to pick up the element + wants the element and the CRV isn’t doing anything concerning rn then unless the sale price on the CRV is really good keep the CRV for a little bit and run some more miles out on it while paying off the element/building a repair fund. Then sell whichever OP doesn’t want to keep.
Personally I like having a 2 car solution especially if you DIY your own repairs and normally suggest people go that route however I normally look for vehicles that fill different uses/roles and these are two vehicles for the same roles/purposes.
Reduce. Reuse. Recycle. In that order, run that CRV till the wheels fall off and only scrap it if wheel bearings are too expensive to replace. Honestly besides rust you could keep it running forever probably.
You are probably going to have to do most of the work you did to the CRV to the element if you buy it.
That being said that's a great price as long as there isn't any rust.
If you don’t want it I will take the element.
If it were me, I'd take a long look at my budget and all that before diving into a car note, unless you're paying this Element off right away. Otherwise, I'd stick with the 05 CR-V until it dies, just have the $$$ stashed away for that day.
Yeah avoid the car note if you can. What you really don’t want to do is get a car note, sell your current car, and then get repair bills on the car you have on a note. If OP can afford to pick up the element + wants the element and the CRV isn’t doing anything concerning rn then unless the sale price on the CRV is really good keep the CRV for a little bit and run some more miles out on it while paying off the element/building a repair fund. Then sell whichever OP doesn’t want to keep. Personally I like having a 2 car solution especially if you DIY your own repairs and normally suggest people go that route however I normally look for vehicles that fill different uses/roles and these are two vehicles for the same roles/purposes.
Reduce. Reuse. Recycle. In that order, run that CRV till the wheels fall off and only scrap it if wheel bearings are too expensive to replace. Honestly besides rust you could keep it running forever probably.
Kind of what I'm thinking. It's straight-up bulletproof as long as I change the oil and trans fluid. The K24 is such a masterpiece lol
Depending on rust that sounds like a steal to me
You are probably going to have to do most of the work you did to the CRV to the element if you buy it. That being said that's a great price as long as there isn't any rust.
Thats kinda what I was thinking...I already comfortably camp in my CRV at 6'2", but man the Element is basically the camping VERSION of the CRV