Reply #11: As I said, my car is looking bad. Hail damage, cracked windshield, etc.

[Honeycombe8]

It's getting embarrassing.

It'd actually be less costly to buy a new vehicle (no repairs for 5 years), and drive it for the next 12 years, then to spend several thousand dollars on this car and have to buy a new car a few years from now.

I've thought about buying used. I'm concerned about the car's history, though. You never really know if the car had been in an accident, if it was maintained, if it was flooded in a hurricane, if it turned out to be lemon, etc. But I'm going to check that out, too. No special deduction for used cars, though.