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That's just a joke! Can anyone beat that?! yes. used to work in a stealership as mentioned, and a diesel mondeo pollen filter was about £29+VAT. about half the time it wasn't actually changed, merely blown with some air and put back. |
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That's just a joke! Can anyone beat that?! yes. used to work in a stealership as mentioned, and a diesel mondeo pollen filter was about £29+VAT. about half the time it wasn't actually changed, merely blown with some air and put back. Well my friend just spunked £800 servicing his BMW Mini cooper S (and that was with no extra faults!! Peugeots and Citroens all suffer from having a FAP filter thing, it goes after three years and can cost around £1500 to replace (dealer only) just at around the time when the thought of a new car may be crossing the customers mind... suspicious or what |
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This space available to rent. Reach literally dozens of people. Cheap rates!
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had a go at my auntie...Colonelk
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Going back to an earlier point, what is it with the price of servicing on new cars? I had a lady at work saying about the service was due on her fairly new 206 Convertible thing and it was going to cost her something like £250, so I asked her what for, judging that it only had something like 15K on it. Apparently just changing the oil, air filters, pollen filters and some other minor things. How on earth do they justify that? I got all fluids changed including gearbox and diff, new fuel filter and the cambelt changing on my Mira for something like £150! And I even used the official parts and had it done by the proper dealer. Parts prices for new cars are ridiculous too, my dad damaged the outer shell of a door mirror on his 407 and the replacement item was £200 odd. I'd have just got another car for that. My parents 4x4 costs on average £800 for a main service. And they are CONSTANTLY on at me "wouldnt you like a nice car" "I have a nice car" "I mean, you know, a new car" "So I can pay £800 for a service? The cost of 2 years motoring for me?" |
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I recently talked to an old 'mate' and he was of the opinion that... new car good. old car bad new house good. old house bad etc... he's such an utter minge he called round to see if I wanted to go for a drink tonight. there must have been a crossed wire somewhere cos someone told him i'd gone to northallerton, I was upstairs all the time  ps. my brother just lashed the cash on a new mitsubishi colt, which i actually like the look of. there was a turbo one but it came with seriously barry 17" alloys. so i convinced him to get the 1.1 black hawk special edition minus the racing stripes down the centre of the car, as it was a whopping 6 grand cheaper. he likes to keep on top of the whole new car thing by trading in every 3 years. and the dealers are clambering over themselves for the sale so they gave him top dollar for his 'old' C2 ! |
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people's concept of money varies.
Some people pay £120 for a pair of jeans, some people balk at paying £12.
Some people are happy to pay £12K for a new car bacause they think they will have less bother with it than if they paid £1200 for one.
My sister in law has a new Mazda, we have a 15 year old one. She takes hers to the dealer, pays a fat wad for a service, gets a courtesy car, only has to talk to well spoken guys in smart suits and ties when she takes it in, all that. In theory she should only need to be takign it in once a year or so? Our Mazda has a spate of odd repairs recently with CV joint, back box, and now some suspension bush or two gone out... little annoyance, a few quid every couple of months fixing this or that, not big money but S/I/L cannot be arsed with that so is happy to pay the big numbers to keep out of having to do that. Doesn't like dealing with oily people, that sort of thing...
My mum, bless her, keeps havig a go at interfering about my old car tat. Doesn't bother SWMBO too much, so thats all that counts. I despair of the "experts" who tell me I'm doing wrong or "Cortinas are rubbish they all rot to bits, you paid too much for that, can't be worth more than £200, BTW can you weld up my Vectra for its next MOT, its not worth paying the garage to do it?"
TBH, I'd quite like a modern car. I cannot justify the cost of one. If I bought amodern car ti would have to be something "good" (BMW M5, Cadillac CTS-V, Skyline R34, Mazda RX8, Jag XJ-R, Chrysler 300C, Range Rover Sport etc.) I've driven some proper nice modern stuff and I could live with some of them for sure, but can I heck as like afford one of them, or at least stay married if I do LOL.
I couldn't be driving an Astra or Almera or whatever. That would be hades in a sack for me.
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had a go at my auntie...Robinxr4i
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I had a debate with a customer at work, I told him I generally paid about £500 for my cars and they usually lasted me about a year or so, before they usually get sent to the breakers (I usually crash, get bored or rag them to dead or a combination of all three!)
He told me that I was throwing away £500 every year and that I should buy a new car because it would be more reliable and I would look after it more.
What he didn’t understand is I hate depreciation, you buy a new car and you loose a third of value in the first year! Not to mention the fact I could not afford to buy a new car out right and then I would have to get finance, yeah right! Plus the rate at which I get bored with car it would cost me a fortune, plus you cant service a new car yourself without fear of messing up the service history. New cars are soulless (well until they get old and start falling to pieces ;D )
Basically even if I was rich (which I aint) buying a new car makes no sense to me. Let face it a £350 Sierra is not going to depreciate, plus if it goes wrong the parts are cheap and usually at the local breakers. And if the worst should happen and I crash it, I could break it for parts and get most of my money back!
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Sierra - here we go again! He has an illness, it's not his fault.
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I'm quite proud of the fact that every car I've owned has been priced between £0 and £700 - all the recent ones have been sub-£200. If one of them breaks down I can usually get much of the money back by flogging bits on eBay.
My friends and family are generally appreciative of cheap cars as long as they're running - my mum took my £140 P10 Primera on after her car went bust. It's only needed some light attention to the brakes and exhaust since.
It's funny getting lectures on cheap cars from people who've bought boring cars for way over the odds from dullard ex-fleet outlets like Arnold Clark, and pay probably twice what it's worth at the end of the day on finance.
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