sell me a car

[Biker Biggles]

You aint got the dosh for a real nice car with pulling power so best not to make a fool of yourself by buying a poor relation and pretending its something its not.Go for grunge and get a reliable Micra.Stick to two wheels for proper road performance.

[L3nny]

The size of the car doesn't necessarily reflect the cost of the insurance. I remember when I was 17 I had a 1.0 205 and my mate had a 1.6 Belmont and the insurance was about the same. Mine struggled to do 80, his would cruise at 120 all day.

[21QUEST]

My previous positive post aside, both the Peugeot 106s I've owned and the Peugeot 306 owned by my sister, had/have 'free added character' as standard....so yep, the guys do have a point indeed

[andrewsmith]

It's a bad civic underneath.
Anyways another suggestion: punto, panda, seat Ibiza

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[timwilky]

Josh

Don't let them get to you. the wife has a 53 plate 1.2 16v clio I bought at auction for £1600 3 years ago with 70,000 on it.

In those 3 years, I have had to :-

Replace 1 ABS reluctor ring cost about £3, Renault would sell me a new drive shaft.
Replace 1 suspension stabiliser link again £3.
Remove and refit sun roof at the cost of 2 tubes of silicon seal again about £3.

Then one proper service when I bought it :-
timing belt, water pump, oil/filters, plugs front brake pads about £90.

Two front tyres £70

So in 3 years use you are looking at £170 in expense and 3 MOTs. Not quit the disaster they tell you. Oh and it has plastic front wing so take the odd knock

[Wideboy]

But in all fairness if you hadn't fixed that yourself, all of that would have cost you a small fortune.

I can say my 1.4 astra was a reliable car but I owned it from 60k to 100k and in that time it had a new head gasket, water pump, cam belt, cam pulleys, cam tensioner, radiator as well as the services.

The car was reliable in the sense that it didn't leave me stranded anywhere but truth is if I hadn't fixed all that myself it would have cost a bomb.

[yorkie_chris]

Originally Posted by joshwalker094

For what I can get, nearly an extra £700 than the clio


And no micra! Ugly. I do have to drive to college in this when its pishing it down

Don't be a f*cking tart.

They are also bombproof, have very few vices and not many rot-spots.

Which is more than can be said for a frog rot-box of unreliability sent from hell.


If you want a frog motor find an old 205D pug...

[yorkie_chris]

If you are wanting to move tools around I would look at some of the less desireable "spacker wagon" type cars like berlingos and stuff like that, you may be pleasantly surprised on insurance (or not!) as they're all driven by old people and you can lug loads of stuff in one.

Originally Posted by andrewsmith

Rover 25/ mg zs

Originally Posted by Wideboy

are you mad?

Clearly, yes.

Andrew are you just listing off every car ever made that's smaller than a defender 110?

The MG would be a stupid insurance price and every rover K engine ever made, ever, is a head gasket destroying, overheating, valve guide loosening bag of SH*TE and you'd be better with a rescue pony and a cart with square wheels.

[Fallout]

Originally Posted by Wideboy

But in all fairness if you hadn't fixed that yourself, all of that would have cost you a small fortune.

I can say my 1.4 astra was a reliable car but I owned it from 60k to 100k and in that time it had a new head gasket, water pump, cam belt, cam pulleys, cam tensioner, radiator as well as the services.

The car was reliable in the sense that it didn't leave me stranded anywhere but truth is if I hadn't fixed all that myself it would have cost a bomb.

If would actually say Vauxhall are as bad as Renault. I've had an old Corsa (60k miles) which drank coolant and was cooking a plug on one cylinder. There was a reason why it only cost £400 and I sold it for the same. Also had an Astra with engine management lights for EGR and some sort of other engine sensor (can't remember) and head gasket went. Again about 60-70k miles! ALSO, I have a mate who always buys Vauxhall (most recently brand new VXR) and they always fail. His VXR gearbox is on the way out after 30k miles!

On top of that, the Corsa is without doubt the worst handling car I have ever driven. Shocking piece of rubbish. At least Clios have reasonable handling. I still would agree with Micra, Civic, Ibiza (+1 - German parts I assume if it's like the leon), then KA/Fiesta.

One of my old roommates had his head gasket go on his corsa too. I'd never buy vauxhall after the various experiences, especially wills ones with rubbish warranty work.

I'd always go Kraut or Jap.