What do we do about new car?

[Deleted User]

Trade it in and get a cheaper car. Sounds like you're somewhat struggling money wise and have little savings. You should be driving a Dacia, not a Tiguan.

Ian1961

Did the local garage not explain the fault after saying it needed to go to a main dealers?

[Deleted User]

Where are you with this now?

cymruchris

Dot2dot2 said:

- Go for a Volvo we’ve found with 600 miles on the clock and £5K off the price. This would increase our monthly payments. The plus here would be if we could keep it going for longer - say 10 years instead of 4 or 5. Do Volvos still go on forever?

No - they are not what they used to be many years ago. Now full of electronics that can and do go wrong like any other recent car. Expensive to repair when it happens, and just as likely. I'd rather keep what I had that I knew the history of. You know it's been looked after, you know it's not been clocked, you know it's not been in an accident and bodged up, you know it's not been hammered up and down the M1 every day. If there's a current fault - see how it can be rectified, and how the dealer handles it - but I'd rather keep what I know than inherit someone else's problem at this moment in time.

iwb100

cymruchris said:

Dot2dot2 said:

- Go for a Volvo we’ve found with 600 miles on the clock and £5K off the price. This would increase our monthly payments. The plus here would be if we could keep it going for longer - say 10 years instead of 4 or 5. Do Volvos still go on forever?

No - they are not what they used to be many years ago. Now full of electronics that can and do go wrong like any other recent car. Expensive to repair when it happens, and just as likely. I'd rather keep what I had that I knew the history of. You know it's been looked after, you know it's not been clocked, you know it's not been in an accident and bodged up, you know it's not been hammered up and down the M1 every day. If there's a current fault - see how it can be rectified, and how the dealer handles it - but I'd rather keep what I know than inherit someone else's problem at this moment in time.

A Volvo that has 600 miles on it will hardly have been mistreated without it being very very obvious.

They have a VW already which is marginally lower reliability than a volvo. Yet their VW has an issue now…

If it was me I’d swap for something cheaper and new. But a 600 mile Volvo with 5K off is a very decent deal if someone wants a Volvo…