How much did you spend on your car

mcjordi

none of mine have ever failed on the motorway.
only had "problems" with the mk3 1.6 astra.
once where it wouldnt go into 1/2 gear and once where the engine popped.. (both happened on a weekend) gear problem i sorted within an hour of being recovered home.
and it was scraped when the engine popped..and i bought another car.
I would personally only have a brand new car if i won the lotto.. i would buy a nearly new car if i had the money to buy outright..
Bangernomics has served me well the last 7 years..

mikey72

Our banger cost less than £500, it's had 60,000 on it in under 4 years, and does about 50 miles a day on the motoway.

Nothing apart from normal service items so far.
Even still on the exhaust it came with.

bclark

cyclonebri1 wrote: »

There's also a another major issue with a brand spanker other than immediate cash loss and that's relliability.

It's very often the 1st owner who has all the issues of faults, particularly electrical, and recalls by the manufacturer.

The 2nd owner has usually escaped these, plus the car will have done it's natural running in cycle and is likely to be at peak performance and economy.

I have had 3 brand new cars and owned them for a total of just over 10 years. Only one of them ever had an issue that needed repairing under warranty and that was a pipe breaking from the washer bottle.

I have owned a couple of second hand cars and had a lot more problems such as the front suspension struts needing replacing in a 4 year old Fiesta.

Brand new has always been a lot more reliable to me and I have the comfort of knowing the issues are covered and my expenses are largely fixed.

scheming_gypsy

bclark wrote: »

I have had 3 brand new cars and owned them for a total of just over 10 years.

I have owned a couple of second hand cars and had a lot more problems such as the front suspension struts needing replacing in a 4 year old Fiesta.

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So what you're saying is that if you get rid of your new car before it's 4 years old you won't have any issues.

rodenal

Changing the dampers on a fiesta is hardly a major nor majorly expensive job either - unless you were foolish enough to go to ford for the job.

Jeff_Bridges_hair

scheming_gypsy wrote: »

So what you're saying is that if you get rid of your new car before it's 4 years old you won't have any issues.

No - they were giving an example of where they have had more reliability out of newer cars then they did from a second hand car.

Ive noticed others showing they have had good reliability from their bangers so why cant someone show the opposite side of the coin?

scheming_gypsy

Jeff_Bridges_hair wrote: »

No - they were giving an example of where they have had more reliability out of newer cars then they did from a second hand car.

Ive noticed others showing they have had good reliability from their bangers so why cant someone show the opposite side of the coin?

you missed what i was saying.

They had 3 new cars for a total of 10 years / 3.3 years per car on average. The second hand car was 4 years old and had a problem. So the 'fail' point for a car is four years.
If they bought the Fiesta new and had it for four years the problem would still have occured. so it wasn't anything to do with it being second hand as it was still within a reasonable first owner, time frame.

bclark

scheming_gypsy wrote: »

So what you're saying is that if you get rid of your new car before it's 4 years old you won't have any issues.

No I am merely using it as example of my own personal experience which contradicted that of the post I was quoting.

There is no hard and fast rule here, I was merely adding some context and an alternative view from the 'new cars are bad, they lose half their value driving off the forecourt' we normally get.

Jeff_Bridges_hair

bclark wrote: »

No I am merely using it as example of my own personal experience which contradicted that of the post I was quoting.

There is no hard and fast rule here, I was merely adding some context and an alternative view from the 'new cars are bad, they lose half their value driving off the forecourt' we normally get.

Persackerly. Its seems from some people on this thread that buying second hands cars is where its all at. Which is completely wrong of course but some people fail to understand that not every buyer will be as up on cars as they are so they like to feel superior and point out that they can do it so everyone else should.

LandyAndy

We have two Mazdas bought new 2 years ago. One for about £20k (with £10k on 0%), one for £11k (£9k on finance). Both finance deals over 3 years. Our intention is to keep both cars for 7-8 years as they are very likely to meet our requirements for at least that period of time (one large estate, one small runabout). Given the long projected ownership period and our requirement for a reliable car for long journeys and MrsLA's work I believe buying new was a reasonable route to take.