Which car?

CKhalvashi

mcjordi wrote: »

Neither tbh.
id keep the polo unless its going wrong a lot.

Turbo problems (£2k fix) is the reason it's going, and IMO it's the best option.

It steers, but having driven it quite a bit for the last few weeks, the power steering is getting a bit temperamental, the heating/radio/half the electrics don't work and the abovementioned problem make it a car I wouldn't want to own!

bodgerx wrote: »

Buy a Mazda MX-5 instead

That was one I'd never thought about actually, very good car for the money!

Someone else in the office paid £3k for a Merc CL600 last Feb; 30k miles on it (taking the total to 246k) and she's had no problems!

A new engine is £12k, so I think that'll be chucked rather than repaired if it does go :eek:

CK

CKhalvashi

steve-L wrote: »

As an only car do you really want a cabriolet?

OH used to use an SC430 as an only car, covering about 40k a year, for about 6 years, and it worked amazingly. This is with 2 kids (who are too big for something like that now). My S-Max usually only had 2 seats up most the time, as it was used as a van, so it was important to have a 2nd usable car.

My 2nd car is strange, but I paid £800 for it on eBay about 5 years ago. No boot, 2 seats, noisy and uncomfortable, but it's an amazing amount of fun, free to tax, £140 to insure for the year and returns over 80mpg! Seen here outside a property that we bought to renovate and BTL, as I wanted to give the impression someone was in with toold in there.

CK

happybiker

Steer clear of petrol driven older cars. With the phasing in of E10 petrol through the UK in 2013, anything over about 5 years old could become a very expensive liability

worried_jim

happybiker wrote: »

Steer clear of petrol driven older cars. With the phasing in of E10 petrol through the UK in 2013, anything over about 5 years old could become a very expensive liability

Please explain further. My car is 15 years old- how will it effect me?

happybiker

worried_jim wrote: »

Please explain further. My car is 15 years old- how will it effect me?

It will effect everyone who can't afford a new car soon. E10 is being introduced through 2013 and the government have given the go ahead to introduce E15.

Read this for starters
http://www.groups.tr-register.co.uk/wessex/ethanol-update.html

Just google 'E10 petrol in the UK' for further reading. Plenty of information out there, but not many people seem aware of it.