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your only in crewe you say? brb motors ill be 20 minutes while i go and slap BoomAM for being such a tool.

Seriously man are you for real? This is either a clever wind up or you are seriously not on this planet.

You are making every situation you have told us seem way worse than it realy is.

If someone said to me what car would you get for problem free cheapish motoring i would sugest a civic diesel :D
 
I would just keep the civic. Just remember to take it to a indie garage, I have a subaru impreza and my service cost are over half of your's service only cost me £160 uprated clutch fitted £500.
faling that a focus.
 
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BoomAM said:
I would not be considering a new car on a whim to have a new car. Considering the amount of driving i do and how much i rely on a car, the upheavel wouldnt be something i'd take lightly..
But costs thus far does warrent looking into alternative options. Even if only as an idea. Hence the point in the thread, to get ideas.
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you came on here and asked for help

you have a problem to solve. That problem as you see it is that your car is too expensive to run and you need to find something cheaper.

problem is, its not the car thats expensive. We cant help you find something thats not going to throw up £1500 bills as long as you keep going to dealer and saying how much for X, and then immedately handing over thousands of pounds to them without querying it.

The problem you need to solve isnt the car, its you and your willingness to be bent over by the dealer.

If however you came on here and said you wanted a new car, just because you wanted one and wanted a change, none of this would have happend. You really seem to be unwilling to accept you've not got a good deal on the repairs for this car. You've convinced yourself that its normal and you've not been done.

But you have been, they saw you comming. And until you stop letting them bend you over, car ownership is going to be expensive for you, no matter what car it is. We wouldnt be doing you a favour if we just said "buy a focus" or whatever, without pointing out the real reason why you've paid so much.
 
MrLOL said:
If however you came on here and said you wanted a new car, just because you wanted one and wanted a change, none of this would have happend. You really seem to be unwilling to accept you've not got a good deal on the repairs for this car. You've convinced yourself that its normal and you've not been done.
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At no point have i been unwilling to admit, but as proved by the evidence ive provided on the clutch fault, sometimes the prices ARE that high.
And with the breaks, as ive pointed out, someone corrected me with the rear wheels, job done, estimation for all 4 revised.

We wouldnt be doing you a favour if we just said "buy a focus" or whatever, without pointing out the real reason why you've paid so much.
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Maybe, but the fact remains that a good 95% of the people who have contributed in this thread cannot claim to have been vaguely helpful at all. That most of them have just jumped on a bandwagon from the first few posts, and not read everything thats been put. That much is painfully obvious. And one you cannot deny.
Additionally, the question was asked twice, both in the OP, and now several months later, and both times it took quite a few posts to even get anywhere near something beyond an answer that wasnt a 'bandwagon' one.
Regardless, the en-mass asumptions made this thread all the more worse than what it should have been, clouding things further.
 
BoomAM said:
At no point have i been unwilling to admit, but as proved by the evidence ive provided on the clutch fault, sometimes the prices ARE that high.
And with the breaks, as ive pointed out, someone corrected me with the rear wheels, job done, estimation for all 4 revised.
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you see your being stubborn again. You have been and still are unwilling.

The correct response to that was "yes i know the dealers charge me twice as much for labour and i'll go to an independant in the future"

You do know that a garage labour rate will be something like £100 an hour whereas a good indy will often be more than half that right ?
 
MrLOL said:
you see your being stubborn again. You have been and still are unwilling.

The correct response to that was "yes i know the dealers charge me twice as much for labour and i'll go to an independant in the future"

You do know that a garage labour rate will be something like £100 an hour whereas a good indy will often be more than half that right ?
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Hows that being stubborn?
By admitting that the break prices were an asumption by them being the same price all round, but was then corrected by someone?
By proclaiming fact with prices for the clutch fault?
I think not somehow.

As for the indy garage, i already learned months ago that going direct to Honda was a pricy idea. And have admitted as such, hence why i am now booked in somewhere else to fix this clutch fault.
 
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BoomAM said:
Hows that being stubborn?
By admitting that the break prices were an asumption by them being the same price all round, but was then corrected by someone?
By proclaiming fact with prices for the clutch fault?
I think not somehow.
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It's Brakes man, brakes. :D
 
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