Hello,


I'm a first time car buyer just graduated from high-school and I'm attending college for Criminal Justice,

I went car shopping pulled up to some a mercedez-benz dealer and on the right to it is a used car dealer.

I saw an 2002 A4, fell in love with it

Took it out for a little drive, the next took it out for 3 hours unfortunately my mechanic couldn't look at it but I saw that the breaks are practically shot, the rotor and pads... horrible

and then the timing belt or whatever .. idk for a fact that it was going but just doing research on the internet A4's have problems with the bands..


the used car dealer OF COURSE didn't tell me any of this ... but he said he would fix the breaks and look at the timing-belt


the question is
...
My grandpa said he would give me a for free a2000 Mercury Grand Marquis, the car is in the best shape possible, 70k miles .. but I know the car never missed a oil-change and plus it is free but the ugli-ness of the car and V8 keeps my away

and save money


Or

take a chance with the A4 and put a grand down on it and buy it for 10,500



the A4 also has 82k miles on it .. idk what I should do

 

audi is a nice car, but parts are expensive. find someone that can hook you up with cheap parts. try to do some work by yourself if you know what your doing. i just got a 97 a4 v6 and it runs beautiful with 167k

 

Play,,,, Oh