Is your car's warranty at risk if you skip a scheduled service?
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Although they're designed to make your life easier in the long run, scheduled services can be a pain when they pop up out of nowhere and add to your living expenses.
It's easy for an annual service to slip through the cracks.
Before you know it, it's six months since you got that first reminder and you're encountering some kind of mechanical issue that probably could have been avoided.
Where does this leave you with your car's warranty?
When it comes to time to putting a new car in your driveway, there are a lot of financing options available. We take a look at the four basic methods for funding your next vehicle.
This story was originally published in 2015.
The loan is probably the simplest financial product to understand: a financial institution lends you a big wad of cash and you use it to buy something. Depending on your circumstances and preferences, a personal loan can be either secured or unsecured.
At 17 years-old, when I bunny-hopped and gutter-jumped my brand new (to me) Holden Barina out of the car yard, I didn't realise it would cost me approximately $62.55 more than I expected during the course of my three year ownership.
