20-10-2016, 07:48 PM
My answer to the question you pose, how to get a decent car at a sensible price, is to buy a late model car that I fancy, category D damaged , and repair it as cheaply as possible.
Now folks are frightened of repaired cars but there is damage and damage. Nowadays a car can be written off for the most minor, simple reasons.
Our current car is a 2011 Hyundai i10 that had done 7k miles in 2012 when we bought it, under 5 year warranty, hailstone damaged only. £3000. It had had a new windscreen and nothing else, the dents were superficial, no paint damage, so we ignore them.
We call her "Dimples", it goes faster, golf ball theory, has never gone wrong, £20 tax, £200 comp insurance for 2 drivers. Had 2 tyres, 2 oil changes, nothing else.
It will be used with minimal spent until it is scrap. Our last Hyundai, a Coupe, did 18 years, only stopped once when the £6.80 ignition coil went, had 1 new battery, 2 sets of tyres, a stainless exhaust and did 140k miles. That one cost £7000 when 8 months old, undamaged, been used to develop rear screen radio aerial system.
Now folks are frightened of repaired cars but there is damage and damage. Nowadays a car can be written off for the most minor, simple reasons.
Our current car is a 2011 Hyundai i10 that had done 7k miles in 2012 when we bought it, under 5 year warranty, hailstone damaged only. £3000. It had had a new windscreen and nothing else, the dents were superficial, no paint damage, so we ignore them.
We call her "Dimples", it goes faster, golf ball theory, has never gone wrong, £20 tax, £200 comp insurance for 2 drivers. Had 2 tyres, 2 oil changes, nothing else.
It will be used with minimal spent until it is scrap. Our last Hyundai, a Coupe, did 18 years, only stopped once when the £6.80 ignition coil went, had 1 new battery, 2 sets of tyres, a stainless exhaust and did 140k miles. That one cost £7000 when 8 months old, undamaged, been used to develop rear screen radio aerial system.
Boater Sam.
