Any good ideas for a car?
Posted: 22 Feb 2020, 21:36
Hi chaps.
It's general chit-chat here, so forgive me for this, but I need a fresh car, and what do I have to lose by asking the forumites for advice?
I currently have a Mk5 Golf GT TDI, 04 reg, 114,000 miles, (I've put 80,000 on it and Dad had it from new, then sold it to me) and it's well past it's best now. I'd probably get about £500 in trade-in. (no way am I messing about with a private sale with a load of tyre kickers). The bodywork is becoming very shabby, very fast. It needs a cam belt, probably a clutch shortly, and it's on it's original exhaust!
So I'd have to spend waaay more than it's worth just getting it through another year.
I have a budget of between £5 and 6K for a replacement car. It would have to be a bank loan/tick as I've just shelled out 6 grand cash on a lovely little low mileage Skoda Fabia for my partner. (she loves it).
I have a 60 mile round-trip commute 5 days a week for work, (Busy A roads and dual carriageway) and odd little journeys on a weekend. The occasional trip to Old Warden, Barkston, Ponty and so on. It's normally only me in the car (and some models lol) but I'm (imagine her voice here) 'Not allowed a 2 seater as I sometimes have to pick up/drop off the kids'... so re-visiting my twenties and the brilliant little MX5 I had in the 90's when Blair had dark hair and life was one long party is sadly, a no go.
Soooo. I'm thinking Petrol. Hatchback. Focus, Civic, Auris, etc. That sort of thing. Boringly practical, and sound, sensible motoring, early middle age chariot, But.... I feel I'm going to be literally bored to death. You know what I mean?
I'd love a useable classic, something that would be interesting, and put some smiles in my driving, even a really old thing like an Austin 7, Morris 8 etc, but it would not be as reliable as I need, not safe, and 300 miles a week in every type of UK weather would most certainly kill it (and me) in short order.
Any ideas? reccomendations? I swear to god I'd rather spend 6K on just about anything other than a bloody car, but this has to be done.
Sigh.
Stew.
It's general chit-chat here, so forgive me for this, but I need a fresh car, and what do I have to lose by asking the forumites for advice?
I currently have a Mk5 Golf GT TDI, 04 reg, 114,000 miles, (I've put 80,000 on it and Dad had it from new, then sold it to me) and it's well past it's best now. I'd probably get about £500 in trade-in. (no way am I messing about with a private sale with a load of tyre kickers). The bodywork is becoming very shabby, very fast. It needs a cam belt, probably a clutch shortly, and it's on it's original exhaust!
So I'd have to spend waaay more than it's worth just getting it through another year.
I have a budget of between £5 and 6K for a replacement car. It would have to be a bank loan/tick as I've just shelled out 6 grand cash on a lovely little low mileage Skoda Fabia for my partner. (she loves it).
I have a 60 mile round-trip commute 5 days a week for work, (Busy A roads and dual carriageway) and odd little journeys on a weekend. The occasional trip to Old Warden, Barkston, Ponty and so on. It's normally only me in the car (and some models lol) but I'm (imagine her voice here) 'Not allowed a 2 seater as I sometimes have to pick up/drop off the kids'... so re-visiting my twenties and the brilliant little MX5 I had in the 90's when Blair had dark hair and life was one long party is sadly, a no go.
Soooo. I'm thinking Petrol. Hatchback. Focus, Civic, Auris, etc. That sort of thing. Boringly practical, and sound, sensible motoring, early middle age chariot, But.... I feel I'm going to be literally bored to death. You know what I mean?
I'd love a useable classic, something that would be interesting, and put some smiles in my driving, even a really old thing like an Austin 7, Morris 8 etc, but it would not be as reliable as I need, not safe, and 300 miles a week in every type of UK weather would most certainly kill it (and me) in short order.
Any ideas? reccomendations? I swear to god I'd rather spend 6K on just about anything other than a bloody car, but this has to be done.
Sigh.
Stew.