Cheapest option for a car for 3 months

AdrianC

tommyt41 said:
The majority of cars on facebook seemed to be sold with the covid extension, and I don't know much about cars so wouldn't know what to check other than tyres/brakes.

"Take it for a test, and if it passes without anything too scary, I'll pay the £50 test fee. If it needs minor stuff, we'll talk."

I may have found a cheap van though off a friend.

Eek. Price-for-price, vans are far worse condition than equivalent cars, simply because they work for a living. They can also be more expensive to insure for private use.

bengalknights

Thrifty hire do long term rentals

MinuteNoodles

Just MOT yours and fix it. You'll spend the same as getting a cheap banger off Facebook but you'll have a car with the thick end of a year's MOT to sell making it worth more when you do come to get rid of it.
Not wanting to MOT your car might end up costing you a whole lot more in lost opportunity than the money you think you're going to spend but don't actually know if you need to because you didn't MOT it. Quite a lot of things that people think are part of a MOT actually aren't even testable items so don't need fixing. For example the clutch could be starting to slip or you might not be able to get 5th gear but the clutch and the gearbox aren't part of the MOT test so as long as it can make it on and off the ramps under it's own steam it's good to go.

Mercdriver

fred246 said:

If there was a thread "I bought a car from a dealer 2 hours away and now it's broken down. What do I do?" AdrianC would be straight in with "what sort of a nutter buys a car from a dealer 2 hours away?"

what, like you searching for anything related to servicing by garages or dealers so you can do your usual speel about just doing everything with nothing but a youtube video for instruction?

Mercdriver

being prepared to hire a car for three months as against getting your car through the MOT sounds like a pretty poor use of resources...

RobM99

I'd suggest - take it for MOT to see exactly what needs doing then decide from there. As said, MOT is a safety check, so a non-functioning electric sun roof won't mean a fail; corroded brake pipes will, for example.

Herzlos

fred246 said:

If there was a thread "I bought a car from a dealer 2 hours away and now it's broken down. What do I do?" AdrianC would be straight in with "what sort of a nutter buys a car from a dealer 2 hours away?"

That'd be a valid argument if he wasn't just about to move closer to the dealer. So he's in a position of buy something local to him *now*, move away and then get something else, or get something local to where he's going to be.

The problem with the 2 hours away dealer is that the people posting always seem to think it's up to the dealer to come and collect it, rather than the distance itself being a problem.

I'd either fix the current car (which sounds like the cheapest option) or go buy a long term car from Chester where there's more choice.

tommyt41

RobM99 said:

I'd suggest - take it for MOT to see exactly what needs doing then decide from there. As said, MOT is a safety check, so a non-functioning electric sun roof won't mean a fail; corroded brake pipes will, for example.

I've gone with this option, booked in end of next week.

marlot

All the big car hire companies do long-term hire.  I used to hire for a month or so at a time.
eg. try https://www.sixt.co.uk/long-term-car-hire/ they say on their site from £99 a week.