I wanna a car...

ToAoB

My car's cambelt snapped and awaiting verdict on Friday if it's worth spending the money to repair the engine!!

So IF I decide to buy another one (2nd hand) where the best place to go? There's the Internet, car supermarket, or retailers, etc?

I'm pretty flexible on the make of car

Any recommendations?

Nile

Hello ToAoB

I'll move your thread over to the 'Motoring & Public Transport' board, where it should get more views and responses.

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brummybloke

so many questions would need answering on this

how many people would be travelling in the car?
how many miles do you go each year?
how much have you to spend?
how much insurance can you afford?
how tall are you?
how 'large' are you?

you need to answer these sort of things before anyone can give you a realistic suggestion on what sort of car you should get

i eould then consider where to get the car from once you have decided on the make and model of car.

ToAoB

brummybloke wrote:

so many questions would need answering on this

how many people would be travelling in the car? 2 (+1 to come soon!)
how many miles do you go each year? 15k miles
how much have you to spend? depends - can always go for monthly repayments?
how much insurance can you afford? around the Vectra range or similar
how tall are you? 6 ft tall - Vectra B is too short!
how 'large' are you? NOT large - just medium

you need to answer these sort of things before anyone can give you a realistic suggestion on what sort of car you should get

i eould then consider where to get the car from once you have decided on the make and model of car.

uuhh ok! see above answers

Thanks

rdwarr

Given the above, I'd buy a Focus from CarGiant.

xycom1

Yup, a car supermarket place sounds the best place to go - don't have any advice on a specific car but Astra/Focus/Vectra/Mondeo might be a good bet - the larger cars suffer quite badly from depreciation so a used one might be a good buy.

If you go to one of those places and think about taking finance, compare the rates/costs to alternative loans first!

webmasterpolo

Get a 3/4 year old saloon, they will have depreciated loads. I'd advise looking for Japanese something like an accord/avensis as they are reliable. You may like to go for a ford as it's cheap to repair, but it is less reliable so you may need to repair it more often, it's up to you.

I would look on autotrader.co.uk to get an idea of the type of thing you can afford, then look at every place you can to find waht you want, car supermarkets would be a good place but often the choice is limited to a lot of the same type of car (the ones I've been too anyway).

-Web