New (used) Car Purchase - Worth a Warranty?

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Scrutinize

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Well with a new baby due in June (2nd child), it was time to purchase a car for the wife. Oh the pain of car shopping for women....ultimately, it needed to be small, easy to park but big enough for a pram, a baby seat for our 2 year old and child seat for the new baby.

Faced with a fear of months and months of car shopping and travelling miles and miles to see probable junk, I spent a few evenings on auto trader and narrowed acceptable car choice down to a focus, astra, C3 or fiesta in the budget.

So what did we end up with....

A Citroen C3 1.6 Sensodrive Exclusive in Silver. Its actually a really nicely specced car assuming the French in it allows all its functions to work. It is a local car from a private seller, has full main dealer service history + all the receipts, purchase receipts etc etc and as a bonus it was supplied by the main local Citroen dealer to the current owner last year so it had had a year of warranty to fix the French. Its got 48k miles on the clock and its almost women proof with parking sensors.

The body work is in great condition with only 2 small shopping trolley dings on the drivers side and a ding on the rear bumper bump strip. I never understand people who manage to ding their bumper when they have parking sensors lol.I have done an HPI etc and all clear.

My big question is, should I bother with an aftermarket warranty on it and if so which one? I know your big question will be how much so I will tell you.
 
No, i can't imagine anything is going to be mighty expensive to fix on a 1.6 Citroen C3. Pocket the cash and use it for when she does inevitably prang it :p
 
Could always price up from Warranty Direct online, then knock around 25%-30% off the price and that's what you'd end up paying.

You can judge it from there.
 
Gaygle said:
No, i can't imagine anything is going to be mighty expensive to fix on a 1.6 Citroen C3. Pocket the cash and use it for when she does inevitably prang it :p
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:p:p:p
It is a Citroen, Of course it will go wrong & when it does the Main Dealer will just Laugh in your face.
Get a Bullet proof warranty.
 
[TW]Fox;16063114 said:
Is this the one with that weird complicated clutchless manual gearbox?
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Yea, pretty easy to drive though and the paddles are a novelty but much needed when it inevitably wont kick down. I often wonder if the paddles were an after thought when they realised how slow the auto mode is to select a useful gear.
 
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