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Biggest depreciation hit I've ever taken was on a Citroen XM. Over 7 years, I lost just under £4k on it.
Don't s'pose I could complain too much, though - it'd shed £21k from list in the four years before I bought it...
Ah, the XM.
What an oddball bit of French Engineering.
Only drive one once, was asked to move a bosses one back in the early 90's.
No problems thinks I,
Get in, start it, move it forward and hit the brakes and I was thrown forward and banged my head on the roof!
I had never driven a car with brakes like switch, not sure if they got more predictable when everything was at the correct height.
But I just started it and put in gear and went.0 -
Strider590 wrote: »Unfortunately in this country, the masses consider "banger" to mean anything more than 3 years old.
Not were I come from originally and my kids will be taught to look after a car properly. Very soon as it happens as my eldest just turned 17 recently.
It is a very common way for people to treat their cars in London though.
At least in my experience. I wonder if it stems for the fact that a breakdown results in either a phone call to somebody to pick them up rather than a 5mile walk in the rain with dodgy phone signal?
Seems like a possibility.0 -
The Stalker is slipping.
He waited 4minutes before replying to my comment
Don't tell me, it is either sarcastic in nature or attempting to be smart?0 -
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Strider590 wrote: »Yes/No
Problem is people don't look after them properly because they see them as being "an old shed" or at the least a throw away item.
Very true, although thats part of a good car hunt, I have a relative who treats cars as white goods, I don't think she has ever opened the bonnet in her life and once swapped cars at the dealership as hers needed new windscreen wipers! and the way the sales reps at work treat their cars :eek:
Then there are the people like the guy I bought my Merc from, a proper honest car nut with OCD, he had had it from new, kept it in a heated garage with two of his weekend cars
, and had 2 A4 files full of receipts and invoices, all the recalls done and the original bill of sale for 84k, I paid 8.5k. And I got a bowl of homemade soup and bread to nosh as we waited for the banks to do their thing.Biggest depreciation hit I've ever taken was on a Citroen XM. Over 7 years, I lost just under £4k on it.
Don't s'pose I could complain too much, though - it'd shed £21k from list in the four years before I bought it...
My old boss had an XM, comfiest seats I have ever sat in.0 -
Especially considering the XM didn't have the on-off brake valve of the DS/SM/GS/CX/BX...BykerSands wrote: »User error then?
Far more likely, with an XM, would be failing to find the parking brake.0 -
Especially considering the XM didn't have the on-off brake valve of the DS/SM/GS/CX/BX...
Far more likely, with an XM, would be failing to find the parking brake.
Right Bigjill by his own admission drove one once and obviously doesn't know much about them. So we shouldn't have a lengthy response from him.0 -
Deleted_User wrote: »*pulls choke*
I sold a old style Mini a couple of years ago and had to explain for 5 minutes about the mysterious choke knob.0 -
WellKnownSid wrote: »Today's cars look massively complicated compared to those of 25 years ago - but don't forget, 25 years ago we would have been saying the same thing!
I remember a Rover 214 had broken down in the street near me circa 1990 and watched the AA man scratching his head saying it had one of these new fangled fuel injection systems so he could only tow it in.
Had this forum been around at the time, we would have all been spouting on about how good our Webers, SUs and Zenith Strombergs were...
But, we no longer pour petrol into the cylinders via a bottle with a pin stuck in it, meaning engines don't scrape themselves to death by 50,000 miles and when the temperature drops below zero - the UK no longer wakes to the sound of whirr whirr whirr whirr whirr whirr whirr whirr whirr whirr whiiir waarrr waaaaarrr waaaaaaaaaaar *click* *DAMN IT*
Older cars didn't need to be driven in certain ways or conditions to protect egr valves and dpf's though. (Diesel's)
More and more petrol cars are being built with smaller engines with turbos etc to make up for lost power.
Longer service intervals are wrecking timing chain's and other components just so manufacturers can look more cost effective to the fleet markets.
Electronic hand brakes can be complicated and expensive to fix.
Stop/start technology batteries cost hundreds to replace.
It will be less cost effective to keep an older car on the road in the future when £1000 plus jobs need doing.
Time will tell!0 -
One minute this time.
Well done you just feel proud BykerSands.0
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