Car buying

Thanks for the info Nelson as I often do I changed mind on the budget...

Well I finally bought something I now have a Focus 1.6 Zectec Estate 04 plate, which was £2150 75K on the clock looks to be in good condition one of alloys has been kerbed thats it. Got a 3 month warrenty with it.

It drives actually quite good and doesn't feel like its had a hard life, now only time will tell for the rest.

Thanks the input guys, I did lot of reading around the different car this one meets the requirements.

[G]

Congratulations... The warranty will be worthless though. Traders HAVE to provide a warranty legally, and 99% will have a huge excess and have wording that means they will never payout on an older car as they can claim everything is wear and tear. It's a right sham and doesn't protect the consumer.

Originally Posted by G

Congratulations... The warranty will be worthless though. Traders HAVE to provide a warranty legally, and 99% will have a huge excess and have wording that means they will never payout on an older car as they can claim everything is wear and tear. It's a right sham and doesn't protect the consumer.

Its on the engine and gear box so they said, but if stops working them back it will go.

Originally Posted by metalmonkey

It seems that the cam belt doesn't need changing before 100000 miles or 10 years would change it before that? The one i'm going to look at has done 75000 miles.

Next door neighbour knows nothing about motors, own's same zetec'd focus 74k on the clock.. knocked the door asking me to look at his since it had a funny rattle. Turned out to be the cam/timing belt slapping on the plastic cover! I towed it to his garage of choice to get a new one fitted. Not sure why it came slack.. or how it didn't wreck the engine.

Originally Posted by suicidesam

Next door neighbour knows nothing about motors, own's same zetec'd focus 74k on the clock.. knocked the door asking me to look at his since it had a funny rattle. Turned out to be the cam/timing belt slapping on the plastic cover! I towed it to his garage of choice to get a new one fitted. Not sure why it came slack.. or how it didn't wreck the engine.

Who knows...mine is sounds okay drives good, I'll take for a good drive which should show any issues but atm i'm happy I have paper work which confirms all checks.

[embee]

Originally Posted by metalmonkey

.... I have paper work which confirms all checks.

[yorkie_chris]

Remember that speech well do you embee?

[Spikenipple]

My parents drive a 2005 2.2 TDI Mondeo Estate, it's a pretty good all-round car. It's the Ghia X model so it's got all-leather seats, heated driver/front passenger seats, 6-cd changer with aux input etc. The interior isn't immense quality but it isn't tacky feeling. The engine is really nice, it's got a small turbo so it kicks in straight away right at the bottom of the rev range and pulls like a train! Last time I checked (a few months back) they were going between 3 and 4 thousand quid with about 80k or so on the clocks. Servicing isn't massively expensive but nice tyres for those 18" standard alloys cost loads!

[embee]

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

Remember that speech well do you embee?

Cheeky young whipper-snapper.

I don't remember much after 1936 to be honest (after all it's nearly twenty to eight and I'm bladdered by then! )

Originally Posted by embee

Yes I know what you mean, by that I have all MOTs for the car, which match the online database HPI check they all match up which is about as much as I can do.