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General => General discussion => Topic started by: golf-sib on 09 June 2012, 17:23
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I know I should pm wolverine really but I thought I would ask instead.
Basically after a car around 650 as a run around as I'm sick to death with using trains, the service for the cost is just sh!te. I still have the Golf, but its not cost effective to run over the train. Yet my misses has a KA, and does similar milage to what I use to do in the Golf to and from work and it costs her £40 every two weeks! The golf would use slightly more in just a week. So what cars can you guys advise around the £650 mark as a general run around to and from work thats all. It has to be economical and I'm handy with a spanner.
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cant see how when you factor in purchase, insurance, tax and costs a second car would work out cheaper than just fueling the mk4
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What Chuff said
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cant see how when you factor in purchase, insurance, tax and costs a second car would work out cheaper than just fueling the mk4
+1
plus up keep of the car.
if you really dont want to go on the train...why not sell the mk4 and buy something more economical...
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mk4 is currently sorn and off road as I don't use it, even though I am still doing bits to it. I've been using trains the last 6months+. So technically this will become the new set of main wheels for a while. I have worked out insurance on a second ka (as an example) plus cost of car and fuel is still cheaper than my train ticket throughout the year :lipsrsealed: Plus no doubt they will increase train fares again, even though last year they promised the max increase on a seasonal ticket will not exceed 10%, yet mine went up 25% :shocked: go figure eh?
So there's method in my madness :wink:
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ah, NOW this becomes an viable option.
me, it would be a dog, cheap to insure and tax, oh and run
Say hello to the Skoda Felicia :smiley:
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even get a diesel in your budget
stick on a set of 14 inch golf Mk2 steels and away u go
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1999-SKODA-FELICIA-GLI-D-DIESEL-BLUE-HATCHBACK-/120928070378?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item1c27dfeaea#ht_500wt_1284
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even better one, more practical
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Skoda-Felicia-1-9D-GLi-estate-/320858118046?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item4ab4a2579e#ht_1064wt_1263
ANYTHING else is a waste, and diverts from your goal.
:smiley:
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even get a diesel in your budget
stick on a set of 14 inch golf Mk2 steels and away u go
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1999-SKODA-FELICIA-GLI-D-DIESEL-BLUE-HATCHBACK-/120928070378?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item1c27dfeaea#ht_500wt_1284
:wink:
mates dad has one for a daily hack. had it for about 5 years, the only thing hes done is break pads and a service once a year (even though it covers 20k a year :grin:)
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even get a diesel in your budget
stick on a set of 14 inch golf Mk2 steels and away u go
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1999-SKODA-FELICIA-GLI-D-DIESEL-BLUE-HATCHBACK-/120928070378?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item1c27dfeaea#ht_500wt_1284
:wink:
mates dad has one for a daily hack. had it for about 5 years, the only thing hes done is break pads and a service once a year (even though it covers 20k a year :grin:)
I'm actually liking that and only down the road from me!
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even get a diesel in your budget
stick on a set of 14 inch golf Mk2 steels and away u go
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1999-SKODA-FELICIA-GLI-D-DIESEL-BLUE-HATCHBACK-/120928070378?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item1c27dfeaea#ht_500wt_1284
:wink:
mates dad has one for a daily hack. had it for about 5 years, the only thing hes done is break pads and a service once a year (even though it covers 20k a year :grin:)
I'm actually liking that and only down the road from me!
thats why i posted that one :lipsrsealed:
for your needs its ideal and i doubt anything else will come closer.
vag running gear, and 4x100 if you do wanna rim it :laugh:
i had one, albeit petrol, ragged the crap out of it, just kept on going.
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here is said car
runnign mk2 golf steels, 185/60/14s made it handle better
(http://i427.photobucket.com/albums/pp359/chuffs69/DSCF3579.jpg)
didnt have to put fuel in it for months, and it produced vodka.
But it was my Loan car :grin: :laugh:
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Looking good chuff, just did a quote for myself, same to insure as the mk4 so not to bad. Also do SORN vehicles still need to be insured, the .Gov site makes no sense.
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if it is offroad, and untaxed then NO, no requirement apart from the fact it could get torched or nicked :lipsrsealed:
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Good luck changing the spark plugs when you service the fabia :grin:
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was just thinking isnt it a deisel... :grin:
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Good luck changing the spark plugs when you service the fabia :grin:
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I'd happily pay £600 for that of it all checks out!