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1 year old Audi Q5 being charged £11k for wear and tear :-(
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Ray_Singh-Blue wrote: »Not that it helps much, but you could buy 15 of my car for £11K. It's no Audi but it gets me there and never catches fire.
Given the type and age of cars I see on the roads, not a lot of people are happy driving a car worth less than £750.0 -
Given the type and age of cars I see on the roads, not a lot of people are happy driving a car worth less than £750.
Agree, maybe you could divide people driving a car worth less than £750 into two groups. Those who are happy to, and those who aren't. Maybe it depends where their happiness flows from.
Some people may value driving so much, or be so wealthy, that owning an expensive car may be an entirely rational choice which helps them to feel happier. And fair play. But with sympathies to the OP, this is a money saving site- and owning an asset which can suddenly depreciate by £11K on the way home from the shops is entirely optional.
My moment of clarity came after tracking annual spending for a year and realising that my expensive car was costing me more per year than our family holidays. I love holidays and I hate driving. This was madness and way out of line with my priorities in life. So I went back to the drawing board. And that's how I ended up happy driving a banger.
It is strangely liberating by the way. I tend not to lock it, I just leave the keys in the glove compartment. Can park it anywhere. Third party insurance is £140 per year. If it breaks down, no biggy, pick up another one at the drop of a hat.
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Ray_Singh-Blue wrote: »Agree, maybe you could divide people driving a car worth less than £750 into two groups. Those who are happy to, and those who aren't. Maybe it depends where their happiness flows from.
Some people may value driving so much, or be so wealthy, that owning an expensive car may be an entirely rational choice which helps them to feel happier.
Most people, the vast majority, buy new cars to show wealth and give a false impression of social class. Always striving to be just like everyone else, but one tiny step better.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
A guy I work with, he's after a BMW 3 series, he talks about it, how it makes financial sense (really?), basically making up a lot of BS to convince himself to buy it, but one day (during lunch) when talking about it AGAIN, he says "I'll be nice to be driving something different to the rest of the rable out there" and straight away almost all my colleagues got up and walked back to their desks 5 minutes early. He probably thought "they're all jealous", but in fact it's nothing to do with the car, it's his attitude.“I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an a** of yourself.”
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Given the type and age of cars I see on the roads, not a lot of people are happy driving a car worth less than £750.
To an extent.
Yes there are a lot of people that want to portray a certain image, and use a their choice of vehicle to achieve this. But personally I would prefer people to consider me financially poor rather than have that image, though I am certainly in the minority.
I think there are a couple of reasons that there are less older cars on the road. Firstly people do not maintain them properly, so eventually the engine goes pop. Secondly people need the security of a reliable car for commuting etc, and think that having a newer car is the only way to get this.0 -
Strider590 wrote: »Most people, the vast majority, buy new cars to show wealth and give a false impression of social class. Always striving to be just like everyone else, but one tiny step better.
Trouble is today, whenever you see someone driving a new expensive car, you just think
"PCP" rather than "He is wealthier/has a better job than me
Fine if you don't mind people thinking you can only afford a new car on PCP...........I want to go back to The Olden Days, when every single thing that I can think of was better.....
(except air quality and Medical Science
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Yawwwwn. Fish with those chips?Strider590 wrote: »Most people, the vast majority, buy new cars to show wealth and give a false impression of social class. Always striving to be just like everyone else, but one tiny step better.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
A guy I work with, he's after a BMW 3 series, he talks about it, how it makes financial sense (really?), basically making up a lot of BS to convince himself to buy it, but one day (during lunch) when talking about it AGAIN, he says "I'll be nice to be driving something different to the rest of the rable out there" and straight away almost all my colleagues got up and walked back to their desks 5 minutes early. He probably thought "they're all jealous", but in fact it's nothing to do with the car, it's his attitude.0 -
Whenever I see someone driving in an expensive car I don't actually give it a second thought, unlike some here.Trouble is today, whenever you see someone driving a new expensive car, you just think
"PCP" rather than "He is wealthier/has a better job than me
Fine if you don't mind people thinking you can only afford a new car on PCP...........0 -
Ray_Singh-Blue wrote: »My moment of clarity came after tracking annual spending for a year and realising that my expensive car was costing me more per year than our family holidays. I love holidays and I hate driving. This was madness and way out of line with my priorities in life. So I went back to the drawing board. And that's how I ended up happy driving a banger.
I'm going to print that and put it on our kitchen notice board
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Whenever I see someone driving in an expensive car I don't actually give it a second thought, unlike some here.
Neither do I, however the vast majority drive in a way that forces people to take notice and comment.... Which is where all the stereotypes come from. From their perspective of course, their driving is perfect and everyone is just jealous.“I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an a** of yourself.”
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I would start by asking Audi for a written response/report, with copies of these photos you mention, confirming what they believe the original fault was, and what they believe was subsequent damage, and which of these they consider to be wear and tear and why.
Then you know what they are claiming and can argue/dispute their claims if necessary, you can even get 3rd party support to challenge, but first you need something definite/confirmed by Audi.0
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