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Anyone ever made the decision to go down to one car?

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My wife works approx 2 miles away from her work Mon-Fri, I work away for 1 month at a time and when I am home I am finding I am only really doing maybe 600 miles in the month I am home. We have a 3 year old girl who is starting school next Sep and she is currently in a nursery for 3 days a week. We are thinking about going down to 1 car and I can drop my girl off and the wife at work as well as pick them both up. My wife has a Mini Countryman and I have a Qashqai, I was thinking about getting rid of both and maybe just getting something like a BMW X3 or along those lines and just have the one car.
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  • Gloomendoom
    Gloomendoom Posts: 16,551 Forumite
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    Why the need to get rid of both and then buy another? If it's money you are trying to save, just keeping one of the ones you already have makes more sense.
  • Geodark
    Geodark Posts: 1,049 Forumite
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    yeah, I had an MGF and the family car - the MGF wasnt being used much so I sold it. Granted I did buy a motorbike with the money from the MGF - but thats a different story... :)
  • JustinR1979
    JustinR1979 Posts: 1,828 Forumite
    Second car could be something cheap and small, low/no road tax, and on multicar insurance may not cost much more.
    You may get sick of all the running around, bit of a tie?
  • Iceweasel
    Iceweasel Posts: 4,887 Forumite
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    Ant particular reason yuou need a 4x4?
  • getmore4less
    getmore4less Posts: 46,882 Forumite
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    How many days do you need the car when home.

    the odd taxi could supplement

    why no save money either keep one of what you have or get something sensible for your use cases.
  • michaels
    michaels Posts: 29,238 Forumite
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    WE got rid of car no 2 when for the second year running it had done less than 1000 miles at mot time and probably due to the lack of miles it kept developing faults.

    Now we miss it because car no 1 has become so unreliable and expensive to run :(

    DW does end up doing a fair bit of taxi-ing (takes me to the station on the way to dropping kids at school (well same trip more than on the way...) and picks me up in the evening but it saves station parking charges and she doesn't work so it gives her the chance to feel she has done something useful each day ;)
    I think....
  • Quiet_Spark
    Quiet_Spark Posts: 1,093 Forumite
    Iceweasel wrote: »
    Ant particular reason yuou need a 4x4?
    The OP said they were considering an X3, that's not a 4x4 by any stretch of the imagination ;)
    Understeer is when you hit a wall with the front of your car
    Oversteer is when you hit a wall with the back of your car
    Horsepower is how fast your car hits the wall
    Torque is how far your car sends the wall across the field once you've hit it
  • DoctorFoster
    DoctorFoster Posts: 407 Forumite
    Quiet_Spark wrote: »
    The OP said they were considering an X3, that's not a 4x4 by any stretch of the imagination ;)

    It isn't exactly a saloon either.
  • Iceweasel
    Iceweasel Posts: 4,887 Forumite
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    Quiet_Spark wrote: »
    The OP said they were considering an X3, that's not a 4x4 by any stretch of the imagination ;)

    For those of us who don't know what's in your imagination - what is it then? - and if it's not a 4x4 - what is?
  • Quiet_Spark
    Quiet_Spark Posts: 1,093 Forumite
    Iceweasel wrote: »
    For those of us who don't know what's in your imagination - what is it then? - and if it's not a 4x4 - what is?
    A 4x4 to me is not just something with 4 wheel drive. It is something that I can drive in almost any weather or across almost any terrain known to man, the X3 falls short on both those categories but it does look nice when dropping the kids/wife off or turning up to work in.
    Understeer is when you hit a wall with the front of your car
    Oversteer is when you hit a wall with the back of your car
    Horsepower is how fast your car hits the wall
    Torque is how far your car sends the wall across the field once you've hit it
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