Best place to buy a used car with confidence?

bery_451

What about ebay where you can see if the seller feedback is good or not?

forgotmyname

Feedback for buying lots of cheap items to build it up?

All cars can breakdown, Even brand new ones.

bery_451

forgotmyname wrote: »

Feedback for buying lots of cheap items to build it up?

All cars can breakdown, Even brand new ones.

I mean feedback built by car sales.


Yeah breakdowns im worried however everyone has to worry about the car history such as wriiten off, stolen, outstanding finance etc.?

forgotmyname

Feedback left by the buyers mates?

Spend half your budget and if anything goes really badly wrong then you have
enough left over to buy another one.

£2000 - £2500 is enough for a reliable car if you choose wisely. Direct from lease is a good one but check the service history and see whats been done and not done.

bery_451

forgotmyname wrote: »

Feedback left by the buyers mates?

Spend half your budget and if anything goes really badly wrong then you have
enough left over to buy another one.

£2000 - £2500 is enough for a reliable car if you choose wisely. Direct from lease is a good one but check the service history and see whats been done and not done.

what do you mean by lease? Finance?

forgotmyname

A company gets a brand new car on a lease plan with all the servicing included or terms that say the servicing must me done to schedule.

The company car driver wants a reliable car and gets the servicing done and gets everything fixed because he wont be paying for it.

Then the lease company sell it on at 3 or 5 years and you can get some great cars. My current car was 5 years old when i bought it. I paid just over £2000 and that was in 2009. Still going strong.

bery_451

forgotmyname wrote: »

A company gets a brand new car on a lease plan with all the servicing included or terms that say the servicing must me done to schedule.

The company car driver wants a reliable car and gets the servicing done and gets everything fixed because he wont be paying for it.

Then the lease company sell it on at 3 or 5 years and you can get some great cars. My current car was 5 years old when i bought it. I paid just over £2000 and that was in 2009. Still going strong.

Where do you buy cars like that?

Iceweasel

A company that leases large amounts of cars (Enterprise for example) offload them to a wide range of dealers for the particular brand.

So the short answer is they can turn up almost anywhere.

Enterprise register most of their vehicles in Yorkshire so the numbers are YL,YK,YM etc. etc.

I only found out last year why there are always so many Yorkshire cars for sale all over the country.

Last July they disposed of around 100 BMWs - some went as far afield as Corwall and Invernesshire.

I bought mine in London - 2 years old - 27K miles, and just over 50% of the price when new.

I would assume they do something similar for all the makes they lease out.

nobbysn*ts

bery_451 wrote: »

Where do you buy cars like that?

Car supermarkets are the best place. But as to lease cars being good, they can be complete wrecks. We had "lease" pool cars. Services were whenever they came back from site, so anytime, but always late. Oil was anything from a service station, when the light came on while cornering. Driven by everyone, over cart tracks and fields. Always loaded until the suspension was on the bump stops. Complete wrecks when they went back after three years. Enterprise are big ex-hire cars, and again, driven into the ground by everyone and anyone. Can still be a bargain, but don't put on the rose coloured glasses.

forgotmyname

From dealers that buy them from auctions. Unless you goto the auction yourself of course. But you may end up paying more than buying from a dealer.

Mine came from a small trader that advertised on ebay. Came with a printout of all the work done and it was several pages of A4 paper.

Clutch and flywheel done, Turbo done. Serviced well before the max limit.
Notes for small items like a replaced mirror glass and dash bulbs.
Shows the driver got everything done no matter how minor.