Warranty on used range rover?

motorguy

Strider590 wrote: »

Haha, you have no idea........ I wasn't lying when I said i'd be able to finance a £60'000 motor.

Yes, of course you can. Thats why you drive a Vectra 1.8.

You could really buy a new 5 series for cash, but with all your engineering experience you know that really your Vectra and a 5 series are really just the same car. If you squint. From a distance.

And of course at the petrol station you can push past all those Merc owners fumbling around trying to remember which credit card they havent maxed out yet to get them enough petrol in to get to the next petrol station and they can only look on in awe as you whip out your wallet stuffed with two tenners and stick £20 in cash in!

Living the dream man, living the dream!

:rotfl:

Strider590 wrote: »

Please note that your argument carries so little water, that you have resorted to personal attacks against myself in order to make your argument seem valid.

Your "argument" basically says that anyone who has finance on a car is a sheep with no mind of their own that simply must get a new car on their driveway every three years in order to keep up with the Jones.

THATS insulting.

So if you cant take insults, dont fire them out.

motorguy

uknick wrote: »

Mind you, when I do use the main dealer I do get a rather expensive car to blast around in for a couple of days

Back in 2004 i'd bought a 3 year old Alfa 156 2.5 v6 Veloce from a main Alfa dealer (yes, i know, somebody had to) and it was going in for a service at some point later. The service manager said he could service the car the same week or if i left it to the following week i could get a loan car "more in keeping with my expectations in life".

New Brera perhaps? A 159?

Nope, a Kermit the Frog green 1.2 Fiat Punto.... :eek:

Best i got from BMW was a 530d M Sport and a 320Cd M Sport Coupe.

With VW its normally a mk7 Golf.

motorguy

Strider590 wrote: »

Haha, you have no idea........ I wasn't lying when I said i'd be able to finance a £60'000 motor.

Out of curiosty then, where does your insecurity come from?

If you genuinely are cash rich and in a high flying job, but chose to drive a Vectra 1.8 petrol as some sort of "statement", why does it matter what other people do? why are you so bitterly against people who chose to use finance, to the point where you've convinced yourself that they ALL are one month away from being homeless and have maxed out all their credit cards? :eek:

If i see someone in a nice Rangie or Merc, i think "nice car", i dont think "he clearly cant possibly afford that and is killing himself to pay it off and hes just doing it because hes a sheep with no mind of his own"?

Lets be honest, you purposely came on to this thread just to make some feeble point that "if you cant afford to maintain it then you cant afford to buy it". I mean was that really necessary, given that the O/P was just asking about a warranty?

JustinR1979

One of my bosses must be worth hundreds of millions, and drives an old Toyota Previa I think it is.
Some people do just see cars as a means from A to B, and don't want to 'waste' money on anything but the bare minimum.
I see loads of people I know earn a lot less than me driving new cars, but people don't splash out 20-30k on cars so much now, just hire them. So I don't feel so bad in my old green Passat thinking of this:)

motorguy

JustinR1979 wrote: »

One of my bosses must be worth hundreds of millions, and drives an old Toyota Previa I think it is.
Some people do just see cars as a means from A to B, and don't want to 'waste' money on anything but the bare minimum.

No doubt. But does he go wrong looking down at everyone else who has cars on a bit of finance as being "sheep" who cant think for themselves and who *have* to drive a new car just to impress others?

I doubt it.

Genuinely - each to their own. I've been fortunate enough to have cars worth between £50 and £50,000 at different times in my life, and moreoften the ones i remember with the most fondness are the ones that didnt cost very much.

When i started the job i'm in i was doing 90 miles a day in a Fiat Marea 1.9JTD worth £300 and the only reason i stopped driving it was because the floorpan rotted through and my mechanic said it was that bad he could repair it.

Didnt once think though of others as being "sheep" or "mindless".

Happen to drive a newish Golf on finance now, because it suits my needs to do so.

Different people at different times and paths in their lives want / need different things. I dont think its right to judge those people though.

JustinR1979 wrote: »

I see loads of people I know earn a lot less than me driving new cars, but people don't splash out 20-30k on cars so much now, just hire them. So I don't feel so bad in my old green Passat thinking of this:)

Yup. PCP deals and lease deals are the way things are going and to many they make a lot of sense. Just like we have a mortgage / rent payment for our homes, a monthly payment for SKY, mobile phones, etc, etc, AND most people get paid monthly too, there is some sense in wrapping up your motoring needs into a monthly payment to.

Is it right or wrong? Well, for some people its the right thing, for others its quite alien an idea - moreoften the older generation.

My son just turned 20 and i've helped him over the last three years get into a car worth £12,000 through getting him the right car in the trade at the right price and trading up a few times, plus a bit of savings here and there.

He may well decide to drive on at that car, or he may well decide to sell it at its retail price and buy something newer at trade price.

Some time down the line he might sell it and use the £12K towards his own home. He might then drive a scrapper, or he might stick something on finance. Who knows?

I've tried to teach him to be open minded about his options and do whats best for him, not whats best in other peoples minds.

Strider590

motorguy wrote: »

why does it matter what other people do?

Because I can't stand fake people, people who claim to be superior to everyone else, by splashing out cash they don't have, for things they don't need, for no other reason than to look down upon other people.
Then ironically they give money to charity, but always in a way that brings them as much attention as possible, again "look at me, i'm better than all of you". Well done, you just gave £5 to charity, straight out of your £500 handbag!!

BUT realising they do this out of insecurity, I also feel sorry for them and I do try to go against my natural dislike for this pretentious behaviour, in order to point out that "hey, you don't need to do this".

Whether you believe it or not, we are all just cash cows for the super filthy rich, the debt system keeps us all under the thumb and this idea that social class can be bought on credit, it's been fed to us very carefully for MANY years through the media.

Now, as for myself, under traditional definitions of social class (professional,, income and home owner), i'd be squarely in the middle, BUT I believe in hard work, I believe that no man has the right to look down upon anyone else and I believe that you should judge a person on their achievements/talents, not on what they have.

I'm sure i'm not the only person who enters competitions to win big expensive cars, but I'd bet i'm one of few who would sell said car instantly and carry on driving about in the my current daily barge.

Now, you can pick into the above all you like, you can twist my words, you can even pick on my spelling and grammar. But it doesn't change anything.....

gilbert_and_sullivan

As this thread has morphed into a financial discussion i'll add my tuppenceworth.

I've seen good times and bad times personally as well as economically generally.
Trust me, for most people it's not wise to borrow money on a depreciating asset, not only is the item depreciating but you're paying interest on the price you paid, double whammy.
The most liberating day of your life is the one that you finish paying for your home, now that is one item it's worth paying interest on.

When your house is yours, and you owe not a bean to anyone, they, the world at large, your employer, nobody has you by the cobblers any more, it's an addictive feeling, not smug in any way but total freedom.

It doesn't matter any more what the govt of the day do, they can fleece you, con you, lie as they always do, sell the country like modern day Judas', raise interest rates to 15%, they can anything they like, whatever they do doesn't make a scrap of difference because you are paid up and living within your means, they can't touch you.

All the cars in the world are not worth delaying that house payday for.

JustinR1979

gilbert_and_sullivan wrote: »

it's not wise to borrow money on a depreciating asset, not only is the item depreciating but you're paying interest on the price you paid, double whammy.

I've always viewed it as a bonehead idea too.

darkmatter101

Nodding_Donkey wrote: »

You really do spout some rubbish don't you. For any car there will be a raft of independent specialists who usually have more knowledge and provide a far better value for money experience than a main stealer.

Yes, even your precious M3

If you had bothered to even read my post will see that I wrote that you could either take the M3 or the BMW dealer OR a specialist garage, by which a meant an independent specialist garage. Do do you suggest I can take it to any old local garage that does all types of common cars like Fords/Vauxhalls/Peugeots/rovers etc?

And FYI I use a specialist BMW garage that has a lot of knowledge on the M series

motorguy

Strider590 wrote: »

Whether you believe it or not, we are all just cash cows for the super filthy rich, the debt system keeps us all under the thumb and this idea that social class can be bought on credit, it's been fed to us very carefully for MANY years through the media.

Hey, we agree on something! :T

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