Car buying FAIL!!!

Reading it now but he is a clot... your first car *should* be an old piece of **** that you bought for the shrapnel in your pocket - but you'll love it nevertheless (my first car that was actually mine was a Volvo 440, which I crashed, bought an identical repalcement... all in all got three years no problems out of them).

A guy in my work has just learned to drive (he's 21) and has been 'done over' but not as bad - he's bought an ancient (P or R reg, can't remember) 106 0.5 litre 'Desperation Edition' with 'only' 14k on it, for something like £1,500. I kept telling him that he's paying about four times what the car is worth, that age will ravage a car just like mileage, that if someone has only done 14,000 miles in over a decade then they probably drove it at 20mph in fifth everywhere and the engine was never run in and so it'll be knackered (plus it's French)... but he refused to listen and is out happily spending a fortune on satnavs and new radios which, when he fills the tank, double what the car's actually worth.

The folly of youth, I suppose. *is 29* *creaks*

edit: epic LOL at this:

MY CAR WAS OVAAAAH NIIINE THOUUUSSAAAAAAND!!!!

A very small part of me actually felt sorry for this guy, maybe he's just a bit thick?
And I got to this bit and realise he's just a c*nt

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11th Jun 2009, 10:30 PM #180 James07
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Location: Bradford
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Quote:
Originally Posted by [TW]Fox
It's far more likely that the OP also manages to be as bad at shopping car insurance as he is at shopping for cars. He genuinelly reckons the cheapest possible quote on a base Focus is £3800, which of course even with whatever circumstances he has, will not be the case.

Omg why wont it?

You actually think you know it all of something, i did the quote, thats the price i got, im not lying?

Im not stupid ive used 4 comparison sites and 4 normal sites and thats the cheepest ive got, im in Bradford.. The BNP leader knows the main problem with this city and that main problem causes the prices to go up, i think it was 3 out of 10 drivers dont have insurance, theres many stories that i hear about car related incidents in Bradford and my mum works for Bradford police traffic department and she tells me the same kind of stories, hense the high rate of insurance in Bradford, its the same for everyone, all my friends pay over the odds.
2005 Renault Clio (75) 16V

[yorkie_chris]

Have you been to Bradford? It's a f***in sh**hole, and 30% of the drivers round there being uninsured would not surprise me in the slightest.

I bought a big brand new car on 1 March (first day of the 09 reg):

http://www.kia.co.uk/New-Cars/Range/.../Magentis.aspx

I paid £8460 which is half the list price. The downside is that I
had to drive all the way up to Preston to pick it up as there was
only one dealership selling at that price.

Buying a small used car for 10 grand beggars belief.

Bradford isn't great (I used to work there and unless you wanted to get mercilessly drunk and/or get into a fight there was bugger all to do in the city centre) but it's not the worst place I've ever been. Excellent curry

[Sir Trev]

Originally Posted by Professor

I bought a big brand new car on 1 March (first day of the 09 reg):

http://www.kia.co.uk/New-Cars/Range/.../Magentis.aspx

I paid £8460 which is half the list price. The downside is that I
had to drive all the way up to Preston to pick it up as there was
only one dealership selling at that price.

Buying a small used car for 10 grand beggars belief.

My dad just bought a brand new Hyundai i20 for £6,400 (after the scrappage allowances). You can get some ace deals right now so if this guy tried all those and failed he must have a REALLY bad credit rating!! If that's the case then I do feel a bit sorry for him. Although, to be paying that much for so little, just because he needs it for work, it may have been better and a lot cheaper to change jobs!!

[yorkie_chris]

Buy a banger for £300... he could blow one up every few weeks and be better off!