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My bloody car has started making some hideous noises from around the area of the front offside strut. I suspect the spring has broken. Thing is, I don't want to spend any more money on it, as the nearside sill and rear wheel arch have rotted through, and the car spends most of it's time in limp mode with the engine management light on. I need to scrap the heap of sh1te but thought I might have a few more weeks to find a replacement of some sort.

I want to get a smaller, petrol engined car from no earlier than 2009, on which I pay the £30 per year vehicle tax. I don't have much of a budget; around £1500 is the max. There are vehicles out there that meet the requirements but most of them are at, or around the 100,000 mile plus mark.

My question here is, on a relatively modern petrol engine car, is 100,000 miles actually that much. Bear in mind that my SV has well over 100,000 miles on it and I tend to think m/cycles have a harder engine life than a car.