Car Scrappage Scheme

Smart_But_Casual

bhavinshah wrote: »

The majority of people do not care where a car is built - if they can get £2000 of a brand new one in exchange for a car worth a few hundred, they're going to take up the offer regardless of where the car may be built.

If they were given the choice of £2k off a car built overseas or £3k off a car built in the UK which one do you think they would have taken?

If you'd bothered to read the thread you'd see that I've bought an overseas made car but if the deal had been to by a slightly higer priced UK built car but with a bigger scrappage allowance I would have bought UK.

Hence HMG missing a trick.

jb66

Smart_But_Casual wrote: »

If they were given the choice of £2k off a car built overseas or £3k off a car built in the UK which one do you think they would have taken?

If you'd bothered to read the thread you'd see that I've bought an overseas made car but if the deal had been to by a slightly higer priced UK built car but with a bigger scrappage allowance I would have bought UK.

Hence HMG missing a trick.

That would probably be against EU law and/or a competition law

CFC

Smart_But_Casual wrote: »

If they were given the choice of £2k off a car built overseas or £3k off a car built in the UK which one do you think they would have taken?

If you'd bothered to read the thread you'd see that I've bought an overseas made car but if the deal had been to by a slightly higer priced UK built car but with a bigger scrappage allowance I would have bought UK.

Hence HMG missing a trick.

Same here. I would prefer to buy British made in this terrible redundancies situation - but the economics said I had to buy an Indian made Korean or the new Micra which I do not rate compared to the old one. I am not prepared to penalise myself to buy British made.

superhans

Try these online brokers to go armed with a better price when you go to do the deal.

uknewcars.com
motorlogix.com
drivethedeal.com
carfile.net

I found this on drivethedeal's website,
Scrappage scheme

Rakesh.Chauhan_2

I worked out that buying a new car means that you need to spend on car services of around £200 per 10,000 miles but mandatory service every year. Its really no point because if you buy the Hyundai which has a 5 year warranty, you need to spend 5 x services ( just so you dont invalidate the warranty ). Also the 5 year warranty is broken down into this:


5 yeas is for electrical programs ( i.e. sensers ).
2 years is for wear n tear ( which includes exhast but not wheels ).

My conclusion is if you buy a brand new car, it will cost you more in the long term.

You're better off part exchanging your car ( or selling it ) before buying a SECOND hand car.

buglawton

Actually, you are allowed to use any VAT registered garage to service it so maybe the servicing costs are similar to a used car plus of course, you are expecting very few repair/MOT failure costs.

The reasons that put me off new cars are:

- Depreciation is still very high

- The design of the bottom budget cars does not suite my 6' height (on the i10 my shoulders easily bump on the door pillars, my old one litre Micra by comparison is very spacious and has decent legroom).

- No sunroofs avail on new car designs. In Britain with it's intermediate temperatures a sunroof with it's great draft-drawing ability on tilt, is a pretty good substitute for complicated aircon that is hard to shoehorn into small cars, uses fuel, causes the engine to drag/surge as the aircon thermostat cuts in and out. If aircon breaks down on a small car over 4 years old, you will be hard pushed to justify the £600 cost of fixing it.

CFC

Rakesh.Chauhan wrote: »

I worked out that buying a new car means that you need to spend on car services of around £200 per 10,000 miles but mandatory service every year. Its really no point because if you buy the Hyundai which has a 5 year warranty, you need to spend 5 x services ( just so you dont invalidate the warranty ). Also the 5 year warranty is broken down into this:


5 yeas is for electrical programs ( i.e. sensers ).
2 years is for wear n tear ( which includes exhast but not wheels ).

My conclusion is if you buy a brand new car, it will cost you more in the long term.

You're better off part exchanging your car ( or selling it ) before buying a SECOND hand car.

That does not reflect what Hyundai say on their own website.


http://www.hyundai.co.uk/owners/5YearWarranty/limitedCoverage/

Any car with a service interval of 12 months should be serviced every 12 months! You can service at an independent providing they use genuine or equivalent parts, and stamp the maintainance record.

Having said that, selling your own car and buying a second hand car will make sense for some people rather than using the scrappage scheme. Everyone has different needs.

Buglatow, what you posted is interesting. My 6 foot 4 inch husband was ok in the i10 and really comfortable in the Aygo, but he can't even get behind the wheel of my much loved old micra, he has refused to contort himself in order to do so, which is fair enough. We went for the i10 because he preferred it, I would have been happier to see him in the Aygo as I felt it would be safer for him with more space around his knees, but he didn't like it much and hated the boot.

superhans

I was offered the first 3 years Toyota main dealer servicing for £350 instead of the standard £433.09, and this was without asking for a reduced price, but you do have to pay up front (servicing is tied to that dealer though), the service department did mention that if there were any ECU upgrades available you would only get these at a main dealer,

I am going to oder my car on the last day of the month and I am sure I will be able to reduce the service cost further.

Derek_Duval

Rakesh.Chauhan wrote: »

I worked out that buying a new car means that you need to spend on car services of around £200 per 10,000 miles but mandatory service every year. Its really no point because if you buy the Hyundai which has a 5 year warranty, you need to spend 5 x services ( just so you dont invalidate the warranty ).

1) It's 10,000 for the first year, 12,500 thereafter.
2) You have to have 4 services not 5. The service is at the end of each year, at the end of year 5 the warranty would be expired.
3) You have to have some sort of servicing each year anyway, so even if you're not spending £200 a year you'd be spending something, if you bother to do any servicing. Even DIY sevicing costs me about £50 a year.
4) I'm happy to pay for servicing anyway. A MOT each year doesn't mean you're car will be roadworthy. If you were to have an accident due to mechanical failure, with no service history you're more likely to be in trouble.

So an extra £600 over 5 years. To me it's well worth it to know my family's driving something safe, I've no more DIY hassle, & if anything was to go wrong, it would be paid for. Every car I've had, no matter how reliable has cost over £600 over 5 years for just repairs.

Smart_But_Casual

Why do people try so hard to justify why they're not taking part in the scheme?

Of all the reasons I've read being 6ft is definitely the oddest.

I'm 6ft and I've bought a Ibiza SC and I fit fine!