Clunker Deadline

[cabinetman]

Heard on the news this mornin' that Monday is the deadline to trade in your clunker. Seems like the program is running outta money.
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[DUD]

I got a new van yesterday and didn't use the clunker deal. Bill

[LinuxRandal]

Heard on the news this mornin' that Monday is the deadline to trade in your clunker. Seems like the program is running outta money.
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Running out of money, seems to be the least of its worries.

[crokett]

Aside from letting people buy cars that aren't green, Cash For Clunkers is also disabling and scrapping perfectly good cars. I drove by a hauler the other day loaded with Cash For Clunkers cars. They all looked like road-worthy vehicles. Why not donate them to folks who need them, charities, etc instead of simply scrapping them?

[Shep]

I think this program has been a joke. I've got a bad feeling that the dealers who sold these cars are not going to be reimbursed fully. I hope I'm wrong, but the government first said it would only take dealers 10 days to get the rebates, most have not gotten any, and a few have only been reimbursed on a small perentage of the transactions.

[TCOTTLE]

The dealer I work at has sold around 200 cars(floated around over $700k) for this deal, and have been paid for a whopping 5 cars so far! I will be here all weekend instead of working on my shop to get all the info submitted before Monday.

[paulstenlund]

Just traded my wife's clunker in (last night), 1990 Jeep Cherokee Limited, wanted to trade a few years ago and she decided she liked it so well we would keep it and maintain it - well it needed valve cover gasket, shocks, cv joint and last week she backed into a pole and tweaked the rear tailgate and knocked the rear window nearly out - hanging by a thread. Got $4500 + 1500 rebate on Hyundai Accent 14500 - 6000 = 8500 (+sales tax, license, delivery fee more like $11000 but that is a fact of life in WA) not bad for a $1500 Jeep trade in. They had 50-75 in a adjacent vacant lot, Gov't had paid for 2. She was estatic, a glow on her face, spring in her step - then she stopped a the supermkt and slammed her thumb in the door - nasty smash - hope it isn't a sign.

Paul