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If you only had £3k to spend on a car...

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  • hethmar
    hethmar Posts: 10,678 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker Car Insurance Carver!
    Not the Civic! Im only 5ft 5" and I struggled on a test drive.
  • Inactive
    Inactive Posts: 14,509 Forumite
    hethmar wrote: »
    Not the Civic! Im only 5ft 5" and I struggled on a test drive.


    That would be the horrible newest model?
  • Quinny_2
    Quinny_2 Posts: 1,351 Forumite
    Peugeot 406 HDi/Ford Focus diesel/VW Passat diesel

    You should be able to get an 02/03 plate for that money.
    That's my mutt in the picture above.
  • masterlumps
    masterlumps Posts: 542 Forumite
    skoda octavia
  • masterlumps
    masterlumps Posts: 542 Forumite
    and definately take car if you buy a focus as there have been many posts on a parenting forum i use regularly about the seat belts being to short for putting rear facing baby seat in
  • albionsarah
    albionsarah Posts: 103 Forumite
    Oh my gosh, thank you to you all! Wasn't expecting so many replies, good idea to take the car seat to try too.

    Off to Autotrader to take a look at your suggestions now, some I've never even heard of!

    Thanks again xxx
  • misterspivvy
    misterspivvy Posts: 43 Forumite
    volvo 940 estate. and then go on holiday with the £2500 you'll have left, whilst gloating about how much money you aren't losing in depreciation. thirsty, but these old volvos just DON'T break.
  • hethmar
    hethmar Posts: 10,678 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker Car Insurance Carver!
    edited 5 September 2010 at 3:56PM
    I was thinking then about our old Volvo estate. It must have been about 12 years old when we bought it, kept it for 3 and then OH got a van and didnt need it. Left it on our land (we lived in the country then) for 2 years (used as an extra shed by OH!) and then I persuaded him to get shot. He charged the battery, got in the car, turned the key and PMSL it started immediately! First person who came bought it and we saw it a few years later still being driven around.
  • mollysmum
    mollysmum Posts: 19 Forumite
    stay clear of rovers had mine 6 days and head gasket gone today!!!
  • waynedance
    waynedance Posts: 673 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 500 Posts Combo Breaker
    mollysmum wrote: »
    stay clear of rovers had mine 6 days and head gasket gone today!!!

    diesel ok..
    Google gives you answers use it.........
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