New Peugeot advert. What the mileages really mean...

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jase1 wrote: »

Aye.

When you can get a 2 1/2 year old Cee'd from Trade Sales for £5500, which still has over four years of warranty left, it makes a compelling case for itself.

They still don't beat the 1990s Jap cars that would just keep hauling themselves along pretty much indefinitely until the rust took hold at about 15. And still with reliability that would make some new car owners jealous. 265,000 miles on my petrol Primera when I got rid, with no timing chain replacement, no engine rebuild of any kind, no work done on the gearbox and no sign of impending doom. Just tatty.

I took mine for a very fancy £500 underseal as soon as it rolled off the boat from Japan. It includes silliness like spraying the insides of the box sections and whatnot. I figure if the guy can keep old Land Rovers and 70s British cars from rusting then he's onto something

So far it seems to be paying off. The car is now older than some newly qualified drivers and just sailed through it's MOT with no faults or advisories.

Last year it just needed two new suspension bushes (hit a pothole at motorway speeds), and a couple of cable ties on the (aftermarket, designed for a different car) braided brake hoses to stop them hitting the wider wheels I'd recently fitted.

The year before that, just two advisories, slightly rusted brake discs after sitting on the deck of a boat for 3 months, fixed by driving the car around for a bit, and a CV joint gaiter that cost me a tenner.

I guess my point is that the rust issue can be fixed and other than that they're still well worth considering.