[JMcLellan]

About 20 years ago when I had really bad credit and a low paying job I decided to buy a new car. Loan got approved but with a crazy high interest rate so I was paying way too much for it. Then I got into tuning and modding the car big time. I spent all my cash on parts, within 6 months of having the car the dealer voided my warranty (still had 4.5 years left on it) because of the performance mods. I had the car 6 years, refied the loan a couple of times, and still had about 7K owed when I traded it in. I don't want to know what my total spend was between car payments and performance parts but I'm sure it was more than double the purchase price of the car.