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« Reply #15 on: Friday, November 12, 2010, 12:22:24 » |
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Skoda.
I wouldn't recommend them to anyone who was concerned about image, but as it's you...
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« Reply #16 on: Friday, November 12, 2010, 12:37:04 » |
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Nothing wrong with skoda's these days hence why they are popular among taxi drivers,Very reliable now with some of the parts and engine being VW.
The superb is a very good model,you just need to look behind the image as herthab mentioned.
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Barry Scott
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« Reply #17 on: Friday, November 12, 2010, 12:39:21 » |
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2,500 + miles on a tank of diesel ......... you sure ??
Good point. I should have thought about it a bit more and maybe Googled the ad.  Maybe it was coast to coast on less than £xxx or something. I'll find it! EDIT: I did some searching and all that I learned was that Google is becoming increasingly shit. It now weights some words in your query so heavily it almost ignores all others and fails to find closely matching text strings. Hopefully the end is now in sight. It's like the old meta search engines. |
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« Reply #18 on: Friday, November 12, 2010, 13:00:29 » |
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get a horse
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« Reply #19 on: Saturday, November 13, 2010, 10:52:39 » |
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Cheers guys, looking at Golfs and they seem like they fit the bill perfectly. Much obliged!
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« Reply #20 on: Saturday, November 13, 2010, 11:10:38 » |
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Cheers guys, looking at Golfs and they seem like they fit the bill perfectly. Much obliged!
Before you do I'd check out owners reviews in a magazine like Which Car? When I bought a year or so ago I was staggered by the really poor scores that VW's got for reliability, which went completely against their reputation. The buy German advice certainly works for the premium brands, but in your price band Japanese cars almost always offer better VFM in terms of just keeping on working with little money being spent on them. If you don't give a shit about image you could do worse than looking at a Kia C'eed. About Golf size, a fuck site cheaper, so you'll get a lower mileage, younger, higher spec'd car for your money. And they don't give out 7 year warranties with the things for nothing, they do it because they're confident that fuck all serious will go wrong with them for a very long time. |
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« Reply #21 on: Saturday, November 13, 2010, 11:26:25 » |
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Sorry to crash the thread but I have just purchased a second car due to our dirty great Newfoundland looking ridiculous sat next to me in the front seat of my coupe.
Anyway I have found a half decent motor (CRV) but when I got an insurance quote from my existing provider the price nearly blew me away. They said they don’t offer two car policies and my no claims is tied up in the other car hence the rather pricey quote.
I’ve always been half arsed with insurance and just renewed with existing provider to avoid the hassle and paperwork. Anyone any advice?
I still have a few months remaining with my existing policy.
Cheers
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Simon Pieman
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« Reply #22 on: Saturday, November 13, 2010, 11:42:11 » |
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Insure it with someone else and add the other car to the policy when t runs out
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sonicyouth
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« Reply #23 on: Saturday, November 13, 2010, 13:26:48 » |
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Quick poll: 51 plate Audi 1.3 1.9 TDi SE, 110k and previously owned by our local car dealer. Great condition inside, 4 new tyres and price of £3895 - yay or nay?
The insurance isn't much more expensive.
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Barry Scott
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« Reply #24 on: Saturday, November 13, 2010, 13:46:05 » |
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Seems really steep to me.
Edit: It's an auto. Boo. Autotrader does seem to have a few good ones though.
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Arriba
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« Reply #25 on: Saturday, November 13, 2010, 13:56:10 » |
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sonic. for your price range, if you go for more expensive cars(like the audi)they will cost more to run and put right when things go wrong.
that said you could be lucky and get little go wrong with it.
no right or wrong answer really.
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sonicyouth
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« Reply #26 on: Saturday, November 13, 2010, 14:01:41 » |
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Agreed, does sound steep. Cheers
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Arriba
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« Reply #27 on: Saturday, November 13, 2010, 17:47:48 » |
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having had a little look on autotrader you can get a 6 year old diesel 2 litre mondeo with around 70,000 on the clock for just over 3 grand.
seems to be a few of them around at that sort of price.
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sonicyouth
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« Reply #28 on: Saturday, November 13, 2010, 18:06:22 » |
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There is a hell of a lot of 'em around...
The Audi has just been serviced, brand new cambelt, four new tyres, MOT'd and all that malarky so that accounts for some of the added cost. The interior and exterior is immaculate too. The price is still steep but after driving it, can't find any fault with it aside from the cost.
I'll keep looking. I've got my courtesy car for the rest of the week, not sure how long after that I'll be able to keep it
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« Reply #29 on: Saturday, November 13, 2010, 21:26:46 » |
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sonic, you can get something with lower milage than that. i got my golf for 5k with 52k on the clock
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