Used Cars with over 100K miles?

vansboy

Have you thought of an old shape Astra 1.6 petrol Club model? Cheap to fix, but reliable anyway, drives well and more room than Corsas or Fiestas.

Many of these will be well within your budget, have lower mileages and not lots of owners. A lot will have been first owned by people claiming their mobility allowance and on contract from Motability. You will find some really nice cars, but also some which may well have had some minor. but numerous body repairs in their early days.

Plenty on Autotrader.

VB

knightstyle

Toyota Corola, will go on and on and plenty of cheap ones around.
Autotrader, 1998 33k miles £1395 from dealer with warranty.

JustinR1979

I found the 110 Passat painfully slow - did come from an E36 M3, but it was hard work overtaking. Chipped it went like stink, was fun to drive.
The 130, as long as you've 1500 revs it'll get going well even in 6th.
Is a good car for a single car overtake.


Won't camo it, will go back to M power next year.
Of course I'll have to change my name to DarkMatter103 or something

Tigerprint

Avoid the Vauxhall Astra Mk 5 Autobox.

There is a long standing issue with these MK5 autobox"s. the problem is that the automatic transmission fluid is run around the radiator for cooling purposes instead of a seperate oil cooler.The seals that seperate the coolant from the auto fluid ,
are prone to failure,which results in the coolant getting into the Auto box, and contaminating the automatic transmission fluid, the results of which are varied ,but the bottom line is ,the box gradually shows faults and becomes non operative,as the fluid no longer works, with the coolant contaminating it.and results in the "destruction" of the autobox.

OddballJamie

Angry_Bear wrote: »

It's a 2009 Manual (so Insignia rather than Vectra).

Vauxhall didn't make a 1.9 cdti Insignia and 70MPG seems optimistic, my dad had a 2.0 cdti elite ecoflex for 18 months and didn't get much over 50MPG average on a run.

leeroy2009

my 07 2.2 petrol sri Vectra will do 47mpg at 70mph with cruise control on, in 6th gear on the motoway, but its a manual.

sh0597

I've driven the 1.9 diesel Vectra and it wasn't bad to drive, are the problems related to reliability?

harveybobbles

sh0597 wrote: »

I've driven the 1.9 diesel Vectra and it wasn't bad to drive, are the problems related to reliability?

The actual engine block is ok. It's everything thats bolted to it.

Angry_Bear

OddballJamie wrote: »

Vauxhall didn't make a 1.9 cdti Insignia and 70MPG seems optimistic, my dad had a 2.0 cdti elite ecoflex for 18 months and didn't get much over 50MPG average on a run.

70mpg is mainly motorway driving. He has had the average as high as about 76, but that's only when we've done a run to Scotland. Obviously this has a MASSIVE drop off on shorter/town runs.

It might be the 2.0 (it is the cdti elite), but I was pretty sure it was a 1.9. To be honest, I can't be assed to check

ETA: Did eventually check and you're right - it's the 2.0. His last car was a 1.9!

DKLS

I used an e class Merc Taxi in amsterdam last week and that had 532K on the clock, it rode very well from a passengers perspective.