the funny thing about joining a forum and being a regular participant who both starts threads and responds to them, is that sometimes what one writes or how they become represented is more in the character of "please help me decide..." rather than "hmm this is an interesting thought or dilemma, so let's get some discussion generated..."
certainly, as i started down this road, considering what course of action to take to quickly and effectively go from two-to-one car (s), i saw an opportunity to express an unusual perspective or perhaps skewed stream of logic to achieve an endpoint and share that with a group of others with a common interest who also actively communicate opinions and thoughts. certainly, as this is a difficult decision, i've vacillated back and forth and thus, it's been interesting to hear what other individuals who share a passion for driving would do if in the same situation.
many of you have probably deduced that one objective of using the porsche to eliminate the vw is the fulfillment of ease - in other words, rather than spending weeks of entertaining haggling tire kickers and weekend test drivers and potentially/ultimately take a loss on a private party sale (an endeavor which really dis-interests me), i'd take a lazy way out and let both cars go and have the vw neg equity eaten up by some of the pos. equity in the porsche. my left of center logic here has really generated some good discussion, i think, that reveals how people view the things they are passionate about and what or who they think are important when making decisions that affect multiple individuals.
that being said, we've decided to ride out the sale of the vw, recognizing that also, we have such a good position on the boxster (both equity and monthly payment) that taking the quick way out to be be free of the vw, we'd kick ourselves 6 months down the road! and again, thank god for my wife, who doesn't understand the whole guy-car thing, but still stressed that she didn't really want me to sell the boxster ("i know you love that thing and it's the only virgin you've ever been in..."
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now, hopefully on tues these new tires will put an end to my vibration demon and i can again enjoy the purity of my car!!!