Car Recommendations

[slick]

Any will be greatly appreciated as i'm sick of looking, the wife wrote my car off yesterday when she pulled out in front of a van, luckily she's ok but the car now resembles a boomerang, now i need one asap, I'm due a courtesy car which hasn't fcuking shown up yet but could do with something more permanent to save all the messing about.

I don't want nothing to big and nothing to dinky either, preferably diesel, about 5 yrs old and costing between £3-4k, the car thats been wrote off is a peugeot 206 which served its purpose but was a bit on the small side, any ideas appreciated.

[TheLayKing]

Ok slick my man, you need to give us more of a clue.. BUT....

If you enter what you want on this site Used Cars | Supermarkets in Cardiff, Doncaster, Northampton & Swindon | The Car Shop it will throw up a list to give you an idea.
You can throw in your price and what not.. i just wacked in £2-£5k and large family and it gave loads of ideas. Hell you might even buy one.

Hope it helps mate.

Forgot to say.. If you also click on the piccy you can also get (more pics) also detailed stuff about the car. MPG, tax band ect.

[Pete89]

skoda octavia is apparently the best car out these days

[Gavster]

look on Parker's Guide Slick, it has a questionnaire to find you the ideal car based upon your needs and tastes. But personally, I'd stay away from Peugeot if you want reliability.

http://www.parkers.co.uk/choose/wizard.aspx

[slick]

Cheers Gav i'll have a bash at that now, I'm starting to narrow down my fields and will report back in a wee while.

[Pete89]

How about a russian tank? only $60k

[slick]

The way the misses drives that not be a bad idea Pete, thats a bit steep though , do they do inflatable one's?

I've narrowed the field down a bit and now have a shortlist of Astra cdti, Peugeot 307 hdi, Ford Focus tdci or Renault Megan 1.5 DCI in that order.
Anybody have any of those vehicles?

[slick]

At least now I have an idea of what I'm looking for, next step is do I get a newer car with High miles or an older one with less, decisions decisons.

I've still got the battered peugeot outside by the way , I had a full tank of diesel in it and told a relative he could siphon it out if he wanted, after lots of fcuking about it wouldn't work so he lifted the backseat , drilled some rivets out and took out the fuel sender, then siphoned it out.
Then at long last today the courtesy car turned up with a driver who wanted to drive my car back ffs, I didn't expect that as usually they come with a loader and cart it away.

i just acted daft which wasn't hard as my car started then cut out after he reversed it onto the drive and said it must be out of fuel and then he produced one of those 5 litre cans from the back of the courtesy car which he said he brought in readiness for such occassions.
anyhow to cut a long story short that didn't work either as i think the relative in question butchered my fuel sender stuffing the cunt back in when it was pitch black working under the illumination of a wee little blue light at the bottom of my cigarette lighter.
I just made out the impact has probably damaged the fuel lines which he couldn't comprehend as i had drove it 10 miles the day before back from where the wife had crashed it.
i just said thinking back it did 'cough and splutter a bit' .

I don't know why i do these things, i should have just left the fcuker how it was but I think i have some sort of 'tight' family trait where i don't like seeing things go to waste when somebody i know can use it, the car now would have been gone and the wheels in progress of getting my insurance payout towards a new one, instead its still stuck on the fcuking drive while they come back on Monday and pick it up with a loader, a simple job has now turned into a two man job as I won't be here to help push it out.
I'm my own worst enemy at times.

[ONEDUNME]

I'm not a big car fan. A to B jobbie, that's my outlook. Don think I've ever cleaned one more than half a dozen times and I probably drive through a car wash about six times a year, so u can see tha my opinion is probably worth fuck all.

My current car is a Peugeot 307 sport and my last one was a diesel focus which is similar to what ur after. I have to say it was fucking brilliant to be hones, despite the fact that I was told that the fuel pumps were renown for packing up and it was only a matter of time. mine was sound.

One major, major fucking irritation is the changing of the headlight bulbs. I'm not kidding, if I was given twenty minutes in a room with a baseball bat and the man who came up with the idea of making those headlights, his head would resemble a pumpkin full of tomato purée. Cunt. AND, I've heard that the later ones are even worse. I've even heard a mechanic say that they would take the fucking radiator out rather than piss about trying to get in to change a bulb.

Anyway, long story short, I'm a focus fan. Boring but reliable I'd say.

[slick]

i've noticed that with modern cars , you need fingers like knitting needles to change headlight bulbs as things are getting so compact. My 206 is pretty similar to a 307 so i know what to expect.

I'm actually straying towards an Astra as it gets pretty good reviews and I've never owned a Vauxhall before, I like the Focus yadda yadda yadda.... I don't know which way to turn to be honest , I might do a head count on my car bookmarks i have as I've been saving them for the last 30 hrs or so and go for the car i have the most bookmarks on, things were a lot easier years ago when we only had half a dozen cars to chose from.
The Honda Civic has now reared its ugly head too which has put me in a bit of a quandry.

[slick]

I'm switching off now as I've had enough, bargain here though for the big car lovers, fcuk know's what the insurance would be like....

2008 NISSAN NAVARA AVENTURA-DC-DCI
its not right is it, see this is what happens when you spend fcuking hrs scanning ads, you begin to pick up all the nooks and crannies.

heres another one, I'll have six of them plse..

2007 NISSAN QASHQAI 1.5 DCi Tekna 5dr Diesel Hatchback

you'd think a site like Autotrader or even the police would jump on them.

[Gavster]

Japanese cars are great for reliability. Ford and Vauxhall should be cheaper parts and servicing. Again, Slick, the Parker's Guide has reviews for each of those cars, star ratings for reliability, running costs and general customer feedback and more. Worth a look!

Those relatively new cars with high milelage will be ex company cars that have been to the moon and back and have only had cheap servicing.

[slick]

Cheers again Gav, I'm swaying towards the lower mileage bracket (cracking goal from Maxi Rodriguez there, the Hammers could get a right stuffing here), I'm just getting a list together now and hopefully will do some viewing over the next few days, just a pity were into the dark nights as I like viewing cars in daylight.
Anyhow I'm getting there slowly, very slowly in fact as theres that many to choose from.

[slick]

well I had to go into Emergency mode this weekend as I got a call on Friday afternoon saying my car was officially a write off and they were coming for the courtesy car on Monday, that left me in the lurch as I need transport to get to work so I've spent the whole weekend looking at cars, not even had time to shite tell the truth.

In the end I bought a Megan as i got a good deal on it, ugly fcuker i know but its only £30 a year road tax and does around 60miles to the gallon around town, was a toss up in the end between that and an Astra, but the fella who was selling the Megan seemed a good bloke with none of this showroom speel shite that most come out with, he knew about cars and went out of his way to help me, car came with a full manufacturers service history and 3 month warranty and about 1.5k less than i could find elsewhere, drives like new too.
Touch wood I hope I just haven't put the mockers on it.

The thought of being without a car when you've come to depend on one for so long is frightning, it was more stressfull and time consuming buying another than it was buying a house, its a great relief now not having to trawl through thousands of cars and arranging to view the few that catch your eye, It never used to be like this when all you had was a copy of the latest autotrader, the Internet has made the job of picking a car a hundred times worse as theres that many to go at.

[Swooperman]

A megane?? Didnt you see the news tonight Slick ??