It's a newish car so nothing can be wrong with it.

[Barry Cade]

Yesterday I had to go and refit the uncle in law's Aux belt to his Dci Espace. It had thrown itself off again and was soaked in oil. I've been telling him for the best part of 2 years to GET RID, but he just keeps throwing money at it. It cost him 2600 quid and hes spent more than that on it. He's finally listened and I got a call earlier from him, standing in the forecourt of the local CDW.

 

"Spotted something I like- 10 plate Astra...1.4, looks nice, seems a bit slow,but I can live with that. It is a bit tappety £2995, what do you think?"

 

 

 

NO. was the reply.

[Supernaut]

Drove a Citroen Cactus a couple of months back with the standard (small) wheels and loved it - sensible suspension travel and you could go down country lanes without being shaken to bits.

 

 

I'm so buying a Citroen Cactus in a few years. I love them in that dark grey they do with the funky small 4-spoke dark grey alloys. They look awesome.

 

These are the wheels I mean:

 

 

Also, it's bloody difficult to find photos of them on the small wheels. All the press shots are of the stupid over-sized bling wheels.

[sierraman]

A bit like this then?

 

 

He did get me to sign something to say it was spares & repairs only. Didn't bother me as I won it on an eBay auction and so auction rules applied anyway - i.e. none.

Yes, 'guaranteed finance' guaranteed to get hopeless crap in. There's no problem with a cheap car being sold as spares or repairs so long as you know what you're getting. The problem with a lot of those type of places are the people running them and the crap they stock.

[rantingYoof]

There's good new cars and shit new cars. Same as there's good bangers and shit ones. I can completely understand why people buy new ones as if they didn't I'd have no car. The guy who had my daily lost £18,000 in 8 years on it.

 

SnrYoof's Signum was pretty awe inspiring.

 

New it was around £26k. It was sold around a year later having lost around £12k or so, and then again to SnrYoof when it was three and a half years old for....£5.5k.

[scruff]

I must admit my fave threads on here are on the really old stuff but I do enjoy reading about more modern shite too, generally because it is so honest (aside from the ANCAS stuff).

 

Recently I found myself in dragon territory. My wife had a 2004 Panda 1.2 which I got from BCA at Peterborough for £1850 two years ago and we loved - a great little car and IMHO a real future classic... anyway with a child on the horizon to join us and two springer spaniels it was obvious we would need something bigger. My range Rover would have been alright if it wasn't so shit and a bit too juicy for the 380-mile round trip to see the future grandparents. So I opted to look for a estate, diesel, with tow bar - in short MASSIVELY BORING. 

 

Grand from a friend for the Panda, and £1550 on eBay for the Rangie gave me a budget, being a tad tight I decided to see if I could include taxing it and the insurance change if required too.

 

Everything VAG was overpriced and fucked. Loved the idea of a X type Jag but put off by tales of doom and shitness. Fords great but make me travel sick. Could have got a soft roader or something but you know what, I can't be bothered with any 4x4 nonsense any more. 

 

After many boring hours reading reviews and forums I settled on the idea of a Mazda 6, not without problems but to my eyes a nice looker and ticking all the boxes.

 

Autotrader revealed loads in budget; almost overwhelmed in fact

 

Went to look at a couple; both quite leggy and on typical "trade sales" type lots in the Peterborough area. First one was OK but base spec, no tow bar and a few hundred too dear. Second was a banger. My interweb research told me it was worth doing the "sniff test" on the engine oil, this one stank of diesel and when fired up it sounded like a Transit Di with a snapped crank, chuffed fumes out of the breather and smoked when you booted it. It was also totes tatty with not an unmarked panel on it and all this for £1995 reduced to £1750

 

Then found a corker, everything I wanted, one owner, main dealer history blah blah zzzzzzz anyway £1700 secured it and I am well impressed with it. The wife mainly drives it as the A35 is "my car" and likes it so that's good.

 

I am a bit worried something pricey is going to go pop one day but fuck it.

 

 

[Cavcraft]

Just to prove it's not been a waste of time buying a brand new car, I've done 800 miles in mine since I got it in November

[UltraWomble]

 

Ummm, nope I'll stick with my reliable* 10 year old Citroen thanks

[sierraman]

 

Ummm, nope I'll stick with my reliable* 10 year old Citroen thanks

Or buy a new unreliable one instead.

[SiC]

I must admit my fave threads on here are on the really old stuff but I do enjoy reading about more modern shite too, generally because it is so honest (aside from the ANCAS stuff).

 

Recently I found myself in dragon territory. My wife had a 2004 Panda 1.2 which I got from BCA at Peterborough for £1850 two years ago and we loved - a great little car and IMHO a real future classic... anyway with a child on the horizon to join us and two springer spaniels it was obvious we would need something bigger. My range Rover would have been alright if it wasn't so shit and a bit too juicy for the 380-mile round trip to see the future grandparents. So I opted to look for a estate, diesel, with tow bar - in short MASSIVELY BORING.

 

Grand from a friend for the Panda, and £1550 on eBay for the Rangie gave me a budget, being a tad tight I decided to see if I could include taxing it and the insurance change if required too.

 

Everything VAG was overpriced and fucked. Loved the idea of a X type Jag but put off by tales of doom and shitness. Fords great but make me travel sick. Could have got a soft roader or something but you know what, I can't be bothered with any 4x4 nonsense any more.

 

After many boring hours reading reviews and forums I settled on the idea of a Mazda 6, not without problems but to my eyes a nice looker and ticking all the boxes.

 

Autotrader revealed loads in budget; almost overwhelmed in fact

 

Went to look at a couple; both quite leggy and on typical "trade sales" type lots in the Peterborough area. First one was OK but base spec, no tow bar and a few hundred too dear. Second was a banger. My interweb research told me it was worth doing the "sniff test" on the engine oil, this one stank of diesel and when fired up it sounded like a Transit Di with a snapped crank, chuffed fumes out of the breather and smoked when you booted it. It was also totes tatty with not an unmarked panel on it and all this for £1995 reduced to £1750

 

Then found a corker, everything I wanted, one owner, main dealer history blah blah zzzzzzz anyway £1700 secured it and I am well impressed with it. The wife mainly drives it as the A35 is "my car" and likes it so that's good.

 

I am a bit worried something pricey is going to go pop one day but fuck it.

 

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Mazda 6 Diesel??

 

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo..........................................

[rantingYoof]

Aww...a '57 plate for £1,700 is pretty good going. Get a year's slogging out of it and it'll have earnt its money back.

[HH-R]

Weighing in an MG3 for 1500 or a 6 for 2000 sounds a decent deal, saves the hassle of trying to sell one.

[scaryoldcortina]

I asked about that offer recently while I was wasting time test driving the MG6. They said I could have £1500 off if I promised NOT to p/x the laguna.

[sierraman]

It's bluff isn't it on their part. I'd love an MG6 just out of shite value but for people spending that sort of money they'd not even consider tat like that. Don't they still have a worked over version of the K Series? Polish and shit springs to mind!

[HH-R]

It's bluff isn't it on their part. I'd love an MG6 just out of shite value but for people spending that sort of money they'd not even consider tat like that. Don't they still have a worked over version of the K Series? Polish and shit springs to mind!

Aye, the 1.8 K-Series became the N-Series under Nanjing automotive then became the TCI-Tech (a 1.8 turbo) after SAIC merged with absorbed them. HGF is supposedly fixed on these, but I don't think anyone has reached a high enough mileage in one to test the theory!

[scruff]

Mazda 6 Diesel??

 

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo..........................................

 

Meh.

 

 

In this price bracket with a modern dizzler they all seem to be a lottery. WCPGW....

If it was down to be she would be trundling round in an Amazon wagon but there we are.

[Guest Hooli]

 

Ummm, nope I'll stick with my reliable* 10 year old Citroen thanks

Actually tempting if they'd collect the fucked goona

[dean36014]

Just to prove it's not been a waste of time buying a brand new car, I've done 800 miles in mine since I got it in November

got my new truck in November, at end of shift this morning it just clocked over 65k miles, not kilometres, miles. I used to do 250 miles a week just going to work!