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kiggles 18-01-13 08:17 PM
Which car to buy. Help?
 
Girlfriend buying a new car and can't choose between:

- vw golf 1.6 2005,
- BMW Mini Cooper 1.6 2003
- ford festa 2003 1.4

They all about £3000 and about 50,000 miles. What do you recommend for servicing, reliability and running cost. Also wether I can do work on the car myself to maintain without always using a dealer to reset computer parts.

Biker Biggles 18-01-13 08:35 PM
Re: Which car to buy. Help?
 
None of the above.
Get something Japanese like a Micra or Yaris.Ultra reliable so no need to worry about doing work on the car yourself.It wont need any.

Fordward 18-01-13 08:35 PM
Re: Which car to buy. Help?
 
golfs are bulletproof

DJ123 18-01-13 08:38 PM
Re: Which car to buy. Help?
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by kiggles (Post 2820480)
Girlfriend buying a new car and can't choose between:

- vw golf 1.6 2005,
- BMW Mini Cooper 1.6 2003
- ford festa 2003 1.4

They all about £3000 and about 50,000 miles. What do you recommend for servicing, reliability and running cost. Also wether I can do work on the car myself to maintain without always using a dealer to reset computer parts.
Ford Fiesta. Easy & cheap to fix or service. Minimal maintenance needed. Plus i guess its the cheapest road tax out of the 3 too

kiggles 18-01-13 08:39 PM
Re: Which car to buy. Help?
 
She don't want micra or yaris. One of these cars or nothing. I suggested a bike micra or yaris and got frowned at.

kiggles 18-01-13 08:42 PM
Re: Which car to buy. Help?
 
Should have put pole hmmm

rowdy 18-01-13 08:43 PM
Re: Which car to buy. Help?
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Fordward (Post 2820491)
golfs are bulletproof
No they are not.

Of the above, the Mini is apparently the most reliable (comes among the top european manufacturer in reliability surveys).
Having owned three VW's, family members that have owned VW's and used VW work vehicles, I can safely say if everything in life was as reliable as a Volkswagen, we would all be f***ed! (every one of them has cost thousands in repairs).

If anything goes wrong with a Volkswagen you need to take the car to either a VW dealer, or a specialist that has access to VAG COM to get the fault codes read, as any other fault code reader/diagnostics will not be able to get any info from the ecu. Unless you are friendly with a VW dealer this will set you back around £100 in labour, just to get the code read.

savage86 18-01-13 08:54 PM
Re: Which car to buy. Help?
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by rowdy (Post 2820500)
No they are not.
True indeed their diesel engines are better than the petrol ones.

rowdy 18-01-13 08:57 PM
Re: Which car to buy. Help?
 
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Originally Posted by savage86 (Post 2820508)
True indeed their diesel engines are better than the petrol ones.
The 1.9 pd unit is excellent, however the Touran at work has had to have the expensive dual mass flywheel replaced. The newer 2 litre diesels are not as good and suffer injector and turbo failings.

Specialone 18-01-13 08:58 PM
Re: Which car to buy. Help?
 
I've had 4 golfs and 1 passat, all been super reliable.


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