Used Cars for Sale in Oakland, CA

Map it out in your mind. There are a lot of backroads and windy roads, especially in the hills, so it really helps to familiarize yourself with how the roads connect. Although you can rely on GPS guidance quite a bit, there may be areas where you won't have a signal or the mapping technology itsel ... (more) f gets confused. So learn the lay of the land.

Word of mouth has helped me a lot to find out about the dealerships that offer excellent customer service. Also researching on the internet, including the dealer websites, is really helpful. Talk to your friends, to your neighbors, to your coworkers and acquaintances because you will start to hear ... (more) good things about certain places locally.

I was driving home one night and saw a few bicyclists going the other way on a big road. Their spokes were lit up with some kind of florescent lights that looked really cool as the wheels turned. Very colorful, mostly in lime green. Then I saw more and more riders. There were hundreds of people ... (more) with colorful illuminated bikes. It was a beautiful event.

Highway 13. - Hwy 13 connects the Oakland Hills with Berkeley, The Tunnel to Contra Costa County and 580 to the south. It's an excellent East Bay thoroughfare. It is scenic with a lot of foliage plus panoramic views of the Bay and San Francisco. This makes it one of the most scenic highways in the Bay Area.

I would suggest, to maximize driving, that maintaining your speed as you merge onto highways would help everyone to keep traffic moving.

It's important to know your budget and stick to it. It can be very easy to finance something that is out of your price range but over the long haul cars depreciate in value too much to extend a payment for years and years without it being likely to retain value once you've finally paid it off.

My driving highlight in the city is during my early morning work hours. Typically it is fairly congested on the roads and often it appears that CA natives have difficulties merging onto highways without exaggerated slow downs. I work in SF and need to arrive by 6:30am and leaving to get from Oakland ... (more) to SF during this time of the morning is a breeze.

International Blvd. - It's a good stretch of road as it isn't frequented during the morning and it often has a myriad of pedestrians which make the drive interesting.

Don't drive into the city much unless you're good with finding parking and avoiding getting towed.

I haven't bought a car here. But I have gotten several offers for my car when it's parked on the street. People leave offers on the windshield. So maybe that is a way you could buy someone's car, but I imagine the people doing that are running a personal business and not just looking for a car.

One thing a car might be needed for is getting out of the city on weekends and visiting parks. I like to drive up in the Berkeley Hills and go hiking in Tilsen park. It would be difficult to bike or walk because the hills are steep and the road is windy. I drove up there with my brother and his girl ... (more) friend once and even though I complain about other people driving too fast on the windy roads they were holding on for dear life.

Grizzly Peak blvd - Up in the hills, not much traffic. Windy and fairly fast but this can be scary too with fast drivers.