How do I go about buying a new car??

TomokoAdhami

I am not in favour of getting a car loan from a bank. If you have savings then you should consider recently owned vehicles at auctions. Or police seized cars etc. In my opinion, these come at less price especially if you find a good one then it would be a great deal. However, proper inspection is always required to buy such vehicles at auction. My uncle works as a car dealer and always get much profit from buying and selling vehicles from dealers-only auctions. But you don't have access there then try public auctions.

alembicbassman

If you want a Nissan try to find it on sale at a non Nissan dealer. I bought my Nissan from a Kia dealer and the same spec and age vehicle at the Nissan dealer was £700 more. I have just looked at a pre reg 19 plate Corsa at a Nissan main dealer that is £800 cheaper than the pre reg 68 plate Corsas at my local Vauxhall dealer.

If the car is over 3 years old check the MOT history on the Gov.uk site.

https://www.gov.uk/check-mot-history

You can also see when the road tax was cancelled, this is an indication of how long a dealer has had a car.

https://vehicleenquiry.service.gov.uk/

mambo69

if i had 10k and wanted an SUV i would buy a Suzuki Vitara, had 1 for 3 years and all it cost me apart from normal costs was 4 tyres.

2016 20k miles will be around 9k, you can get a 2018 for just under 11k

Clive_Woody

Rusty_bongo wrote: »

My car has just been condemned by the garage so we need to buy a new one.

Not that I am trying to stop you buying a new car as you sound very financially savy, but what was wrong with your current car that the garage "condemned" it?

Would a repair be viable (or a second opinion) - potentially you might be able to get more use out of your current car and avoid splashing out on a new one, by paying for it to be fixed.