Used Car prices and depreciation

EssexExile

facade wrote: »

Does this not underline my point about the MK1 of anything being the best?

I think it's more a case of the end of a run of anything is better than the beginning of a run. A late MK1 would be better than an early MK2. I would hope that an early Mk2 would be better than an early MK1, they must've learned something during that first run.

Arklight

Nebulous2 wrote: »

I had an Almera mark II as a company car. It got to 100k and the gearbox went catastrophically. It started whining one day, I called the fleet manager who said keep driving it it will be fine, two days later it went bang. Company scrapped it as they couldn't source a gearbox and fit it for less than the car was worth.



The Focus they replaced it with was a much better car.

You probably changed the oil in it. That was where you were going wrong. An Almera's oil needs to bed in over 3 - 5 years.