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Lacquer Peel Rank: Talbot Tagora

Lacquer Peel

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A diesel would save you a lot of money, no doubt about it.

 

A Fabia MPI averages 39MPG, a Fabia SDI averages 57MPG.

At current fuel prices and 1500 miles a month, using http://journeyprice.co.uk/...

 

MPI monthly fuel cost = £205.71

SDI monthly fuel cost = £139.94

 

The SDI is cheaper to tax and almost as simple as diesels from 20-30 years ago. Over £60 could buy a lot of food at Aldi

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M'coli Rank: Isuzu Florian

M'coli

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Fuck me, I know I'm not the most inspiring of writers but I go and post up about my most chod filled day since Shitefest (Drove 5 different cars and none of them were younger than 13) but thid oxygen thief gets through s much attention on a thread I didn't read because I knew it was full of this cunt's pish?

 

I'll just give up, eh?

 

Don't quote or reply, just don't: let the thread die as soon as possible.

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Barry Cade Rank: Lancia Gamma

Barry Cade

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Ok last sensible option:

 

1.6 Zetec - Full Service History, Full MOT, Looks Good, Nice Mileage, it's in Clacton

 

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http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2003-FORD-FOCUS-1-6-ZETEC-FULL-SERVICE-HISTORY-ONE-YEARS-MOT-CAMBELT-CHANGED-/182032525294

Seller only has 90% feedback. He must be a raving rip off merchant, selling cars with false descriptions. He says 1 years MOT, it actually has 362 days, which, as we all know isn't a year. I bet the sump's full of sawdust.

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JohnK Rank: Renault 16

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That is why I'm being very picky, I know what I want, and won't settle for any old toss, and will not drive an older car, I work fucking hard, long hours, driving clapped out buses, so having to drive back and forth to work in an old heap is the last thing I want to do, it's taken years to build up again to a reasonable car, going from an L reg Uno, an R reg Fiesta, a P reg Clio, a T reg Skoda, then the Almera & Focus (X & Y).

I'm salaried for £60k per year in a job where I need to make a statement and in the last 12 months I've rocked up in sub £700 motors such as (bearing in mind I do 40k pa)

 

1982 X reg Escort 1.3 Ghia (£650)

F reg Volvo 740 (£150)

P reg BMW 318i S (£400)

J reg Rover 214 (£550)

G reg Volvo 760 (£250)

L reg Rover 214 (£275)

M reg Rover 214 (£230)

L reg Pug 405 TD (£425)

51 reg Omega MV6 (£650)

M reg BMW 730i (£650)

51 reg Vectra SRi (£170)

02 reg MG TF (£650)

 

Plus MANY others.

 

All good condition.

 

All mechanically sound.

 

You're talking shit.

 

If you need a car to get to work as badly as you say you do, you will take the first thing that comes up. Been there, done it (2013) when we were on our arse financially. I was running a £100 106 diesel for my 150 mile round trip commute.

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SiC Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

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Now you may be annoyed with the OP, but suggesting that is just harsh!

 

I love fixing electrical problems in cars, especially modern CAN bus equipped ones, buteven I would be scared of a stilo!

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mouseflakes Rank: Renault 16

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No airbags though, so nunz and kittehs will surely die.....

Sorry, was getting carried away. Hope I haven't got this one wrong.

 

I'm getting quite tempted by some of these myself. Come on Felly man, something will work out for you.

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2003-NISSAN-ALMERA-S-BLUE-CLEAN-LITTLE-CAR-INSIDE-AND-OUT-DRIVES-VERY-WELL-/222050400386

 

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SiC Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

SiC

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http://palmerscars.co.uk/peugeot-watford/new/peugeot/108/car_10-68-active-3dr_11674.html?gclid=Cj0KEQjwwpm3BRDuh5awn4qJpLwBEiQAATTAQQiXIhWgjWCjIT7e3g-2uh_BJAt8hpz9L9hiLF9YWf8aAqXT8P8HAQ

 

£138 deposit, £138 per month. All tax, tyres, insurance, maintainance included. Just pay for fuel. Small engine so economical - same bhp as that fabia estate, but lighter and probably more economical.

 

6k miles per year - but 6p per mile over. The 80 miles daily would cost £4.80 in that. Fuel at 35mpg would be £10. £138 is £4.60 a day. So call it £20 per day for total commuting cost. I bet the bus is more than that.

 

No wonder so many people do this thing. I bet even on when i get cheap crap car, I end up spending more than £1656 a year on maintainance, insurance, tax and purchase price.

 

Its a shiney new thing that is going to get you in work on time, looks nice and decent, won't cost you any more than what is budgeted at the start.

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Jim Bell Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

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That is why I'm being very picky, I know what I want, and won't settle for any old toss, and will not drive an older car, I work fucking hard, long hours, driving clapped out buses, so having to drive back and forth to work in an old heap is the last thing I want to do, it's taken years to build up again to a reasonable car.

 

Why are you even here?

 

Maybe wash some of the sand out of your vagina and sign up at the Geriatric Honda owners club forum or the Rotary Club forum?

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retrogeezer Rank: Renault 16

retrogeezer

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My car history over the last 9 years:

 

1996 Mondeo Ghia purchased for £350 in 2007 - did 25,000 miles in it (now on 127,000) still running perfectly and here as it's such a great car (sorned for 3 years)

 

1987 Mazda 323 purchased for £275 in 2008 from Mbollox, run for a year, sold to Chris Binhoker who then ran it for at least another year and it was still on the road until about 6 months ago.

 

1988 Nissan Bluebird purchased for £350 also from bollox in July 09, ran that until April 13 and spent a whopping £20 on a rear exhaust box in those 4 years.

 

2001 Citroen Picasso purchased for £450 in April 14, have done over 10,000 miles in it (now on 140,000) and has gone straight through 2 MOT's. Had to fit a new radiator and a fuel pump in that time...things that can go on a 5 year old car. 

 

Get a train ticket to buy that Elantra for £250, run around in that until something you want pops up. 

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davidfowler2000 Rank: Citroen Ami

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Is it wrong I want this?

 

 

Billy, an older car would be dead within a couple of months, the commute is all 70 mph dual carriageway, diesel is creeping up in price now, and diesels require more servicing than petrols, I detest diesel vehicles with a passion, MPG difference is negligible at 70 mph, shite power band, drony, and I hate the stench. Im after the best I can afford, because I need the car to last a while. Diesel fuel quality is rapidly dropping too, ether content is increasing as well as bio mix, and it's fucking diesel engines up a treat. 

 

Get this into your skulls, pre accident I was in a decent car, so why the actual fuck should I have to drive a car that is worse than the one I had before? I know none of you would want that if it happened to you, and if you say you would, you are lying

 

Further to a cms206 post about the council estate doing silly miles at 28 years old. My 26 year old Volvo 740 did Gothenburg (Sweden) and back in 6 days to / from Glasgow and I would still trust it to do a long commute.

Also since when did diesels require more servicing than petrols? Do the oil and filter at the same intervals, air filter every so often and no spark plugs to worry about. For someone who is supposedly on his arse financially I can't understand why diesel is such a hateful sin of an option. MPG difference negligible at speed? My 2.0TDI Golf will do 756 miles on a single 55L tank sitting at an indictaed 70 - 75. That's my house (just outside Glasgow) to Basingstoke and back as far as Abington ON A SINGLE TANK!!! Fair enough it is a shameful modern but there we go.

Diesel fuel quality dropping? Not that I've noticed. The shit we had in our buses where I used to work before my current, new job was like putting maple syrup in the tank but that's 'cos it was Stagecoach's own blend of approx 30% bio fuel. The stuff out the pumps is much higher quality especially if you use proper fuel stations like Shell or BP. The cats piss you get from super markets will save you money per litre but end up costing more in servicing later on.

 

Pre accident you had a decent car. Gotcha. I do understand that you don't want to go to some shitbox if you've had something reasonably nice but ever heard the saying beggars can't be chosers*?

 

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and NO DIESEL due to moderns not being reliable in the slightest

 

The Golf, in 4 years of my ownership over 40K miles has never....NEVER...broke down or failed to proceed. Admittedly it ran out of electricity at one point but batteries do go bad y'know!

 

Being in this backwater that is Suffolk, cheap, decent cars are thin on the ground, the only decent places to buy cheap & tidy cars are large urban areas as has been said, but as there are none within 75 miles of this dump, it's slim pickings. Scrappage saw to a load of the cheap & cheerful traders, auction fees are driving up the price of main dealer part exes, so small traders pass on the price hikes to us, the punter. A £500 forecourt car will have cost the dealer £250-£300 at most, by the time you add on the overhead costs and profit margin.

 

And that Avensis with borked doors is only worth scrap money, £200 at most due to the cost of repairing it, so it's not such a bargain at over £500 is it? Damage like that you have to wonder at how the car has been driven, tiny miles, never warmed up etc. You have to learn to read between the lines, christ almighty I've worked in a retail environment now nigh on 25 years, and can spot seller spiel from 500 yards, as I have used it myself way too often. If a car is being sold by a trader with a short MOT, you know it isn't going to pass it's next one without work

 

That is why I'm being very picky, I know what I want, and won't settle for any old toss, and will not drive an older car, I work fucking hard, long hours, driving clapped out buses, so having to drive back and forth to work in an old heap is the last thing I want to do, it's taken years to build up again to a reasonable car, going from an L reg Uno, an R reg Fiesta, a P reg Clio, a T reg Skoda, then the Almera & Focus (X & Y). 

 

*see the statement this other asterisk is attached to.

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