I have a 99 Toyota Camry LE 131K, and still owe $6800. If I had 10K available for a car and wanted to get off from under the loan, should I pay off this car or trade it in or any other piece of advise?

Pay it off, save up your money, buy another car. That is a LOT of money to owe on a 9 year old Camry.

Thank you for your answer. Part of the problem with the high balance is that my prior car got totalled after 1 month at no fault of my own and I had to fight the insurance company to pay off the loan. So when I bought this Camry two years ago, I put GAP and trasmission coverage. I think I won’t do t…

Your Camry should have at least another 69,000 trouble-free miles left on it. I would not get a new car until this one has at least 200,000 miles and is paid off. Buying a new car and driving it for 200,000 miles instead of trading it in at 100,000 miles saves you approximately $30,000 in interest…

Agree; if the Camry is reliable, pay it off and drive it till it’s virtually used up; that’s about 250,000 miles for a Camry. Any newer car you buy will be more complex, but not more reliable. As mentioned, buy another car when you actually need one and by then you will have enough cash saved up so…

Keep it for all the reasons given above. In addition, your insurance will be higher with a newer car.

There is one and only one way to “get off from under the loan” and that is to pay $6800 to the lender. Even if you make a trade and a dealer claims he will pay off any remaining loans, he simply adds the $6800 to the new car price and you are still making payments on this amount for many years. So …

Thank you to all who replied. You helped me immensely.

Keep the camry!! I made the mistake of trading my 97 camry in after i paid off a $10,000 loan i had on it:-( I traded it in for a fairly new 1 owner vehicle with 40,000miles on it. My camry had over 250,000 mile on it and still ran great.If you do the regular maintenance to it,it will last atleast 3…

Is the only parameter to guide your decision a financial one? Do you like the car? Does it fit you current and forseeable future needs? Maybe your family gets bigger. Is the avialibility of more modern safety and comfort features any value to you. Do you like the idea of driving a vehicle with low m…

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jtsanders May 21, 2008, 5:23pm 4

I’d pay it off and keep it. Is there anything wrong with it? Save the $3200 and put your current car payment into a savings account for your next car. In 3 years you will have over $10,000 available for the new car - without a loan.

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