Wanted - cheap, simple diesel estate

Farzackerly

Carina E TD estate. They just go on forever - ask the minicab drivers.

Flying-High_2

trets77 wrote: »

Citroen ZX . engines will go forever .and do 56mph to the Gallon

Yup... or the Xsara equally as Indestructible.

CRH71

Hammyman wrote: »

Please don't. Economy is horrific, they suffer a fault with a metal fuel pipe that goes over the tank rotting and they eat through front wishbone arm bushes like you wouldn't believe. Wife had one. It was an endless money swallower. Went like stink, really comfy and looked nice parked on the drive but thats all there was in its favour.

You must have been really unlucky with yours then.

I'm on my second E34 - this one with (now) 239,000 + on the clock.

Brilliant cars, superb mile-munchers, reasonably economy on a decent run (but don't ask around town...) very, very reliable and relatively cheap to maintain and service.

Front wishbone bushes? About every 60-70,000 miles if you use reasonable quality components (use OEM-spec Lemhforder) - they're not that expensive, even if done at a garage (just had a quote of £230 for both sides on mine, inc. labour and VAT).

Wifey wants me to look for a "newer" car, purely because mine on paper is so old. I'm actually looking for a decent E34 525tds Touring......

forgotmyname

MK2 mondeo 1.8 diesel estate, Find a nice one 1/3rd of your budget. Parts are sooo cheap...