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Dec 23, 2013 18:54:40 GMT
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What about getting rid of the Celica and the van ? Replace them with one dual purpose vehicle - say crew cab pick-up that will still carry bikes. Another option would be a tow-a-van type trailer for the bikes and a bigger car to tow. BTW I've got 5 vehicles in the drive of my ordinary semi ! (Smart, Fabia, Mahindra, Sprite and Expert plus two trailer) so know what you means about lack of space  Paul H |
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LowStandards
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Club Retro Rides Member 231
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Dec 23, 2013 19:05:11 GMT
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String - long
Keep the celica, you appear to just nip to shops and as such 30mpg seems just dandy to me over running a wanky diesel just for tax
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Dec 23, 2013 19:14:42 GMT
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What about getting rid of the Celica and the van ? Replace them with one dual purpose vehicle - say crew cab pick-up that will still carry bikes. Another option would be a tow-a-van type trailer for the bikes and a bigger car to tow. BTW I've got 5 vehicles in the drive of my ordinary semi ! (Smart, Fabia, Mahindra, Sprite and Expert plus two trailer) so know what you means about lack of space Paul H If I did that, I would still end up having the one vehicle being jammed in all the time, and the nightmare game of musical vans whenever I want to use it Quote "Keep the celica, you appear to just nip to shops and as such 30mpg seems just dandy to me over running a wanky diesel just for tax" I might end up doing that, it seems very difficult to sell. |
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Back on topic a bit, anyone got any suggestions?
I am thinking pre 2001, so I can get the cheaper tax with 1549cc or less.
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Something in a free, b £20, c £30 band 2001-2010
If I get something like this, I can half my insurance, half my road tax, and cut my fuel bill, leaving me with 50% motoring costs.
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-Toyota Starlet P8 (6 to 6,5l/100km)
-Toyota Starlet P9 (5,5 to 6l/100km)
-Micra K10 (5,5-6l/100km) - Problem: Rust/Overhheating
-Micra K11 (5l/100km) - Problem: Rust
-Renault 5 1.1 (5-5,5l/100km) - Problem: no catalyser, not japanese so needs at least a bit of overhaul but basicly very solid and reliable
-any Daihatsu 3 cyl. (5l/100km) - Problem: Rust depending on age
I wouldn't go for a diesel. If it breaks, you'll have to spend a lot money to fix. The cheapest ones are also not cheap without sense. If you can get a rustfree Micra or Daihatsu, I would go for that. Otherwise Toyota or Nr.5. It's easier to get one of them in a usable condition.
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£690 !!!!!!!!!! That'd cost you 5-6000€ here ! & it's immaculate, unlike the stuff here always driven maily by old , blind people who go along with bits being ripped off & dropping by the roadside.  They are worth buying in UK just to bring here for breaking. A decent encine they ask 2-3k for !1 this is a local dealer. linkI'd personally buy one for nipping about here but won't pay these ridiculous prices. |
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Todos con Lorca
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MK2VR6
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Mk2 Golf GTi 90 Spec
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I asked a similar thing ages back and the verdict was Peugeot 106 dizzle. I can see your logic about a Peugeot 206 1.4hdi too, especially with £30 rfl. Personally speaking though, I couldn't bring myself to go French, and bought a cheap A4 Avant tdi, which runs on fumes and is so big you could travel around with your bath in the back. 6 months later it's still ridiculously practical. This shape:  |
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Indie
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Dec 26, 2013 17:44:14 GMT
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(in my old life) I had a similar problem, too mechanically sympathetic to use the (now ex-wife's) nearly new car just to run into town for
whatever, too much of a fag to use my blocked in 'classic' - so got myself a £50 ground anchor, £500 Honda Dylan 125 scooter (no street cred at all) and buzzed about on that.
It had a big top box, hooks for shopping bags, did 90mpg and (once) on a downhill stretch with me (ridiculously) crouched down 72 mph.
I had a big bike in the blocked in garage as well as an expensive push bike but for sheer convenience used that scooter until (and this is the one caveat) I got rear ended by a blind man in an enormous Landcruiser - he broke 2 of my ribs, 3 fingers and I was concussed....
Or as has been suggested, an electric bike - even the cheap lead acid battery ones will do 10 miles at 15mph and the uprated 'off road' ones are good for 25mph. No tax/insurance/MOT and a full charge is about 5p.
If you can wangle one on the bike to work scheme (I know you work from home, but you could try) you pay for it out of your wages (pre-tax) on the drip.
Oh and Merry Christmas.
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Dec 26, 2013 23:55:22 GMT
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Merry Christmas Indie, I got a mountain bike on the ride to work scheme, bending the rules as its impossible to ride to work, but they like as many people as possible to take up the offer.
Just put 250 miles on the Celica this weekend visiting family. I will miss it when its gone (if it ever goes as it never sells). The best outcome of all would be for work to pick up then I could just keep it.
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Merry Christmas Indie, I got a mountain bike on the ride to work scheme, bending the rules as its impossible to ride to work, but they like as many people as possible to take up the offer. I live one mile from our work base and take a company vehicle home yet have been told I can still get a bike on that scheme if I wanted one!! |
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sparkyt
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Dec 28, 2013 10:57:17 GMT
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My beater is a Ren Clio 1.2 uses hardly £20 to and from work, 1/4 of the golf . Cost me just 200 to buy .
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