Choice between bmw 320 and saab 9-3 2.0t

I do realise i could have just been lucky with the 316, the thing is usually when people have a good experience with one product and a bad experience with another thy tend to buy another one that they had a good experience with. I know i am probably wrong in thinking like that but its just how i do.

Well an e36 looks a lot beter than a lot of cars, an e46 is way out of my price range and a good e30 is also out of my price range and not as modern.

I really appreciate your post Kei thats extremy helpful and just what i wanted, there is nothing better than a persons personla experience, ogten people just comment having never owned or driven the car and jus going by what they feel is the right thing to say.

I was looking at this SAAB, it looks great for what its going for now, i know it was a catd but that brings the price down, what do people think of this car then?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170556010827&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT
 
Why on earth would you buy that car?

Get a clean 900 like that one i posted in the other thread if you have a few hundred quid to spend.
 
timmothy said:
As i feel it is better to buy a newer model.
Am i wrong in thinking that?
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Yes you are better to buy the top of the last model than the bottom of the next.

Fortunately Saabs attract the type of owner that keeps a car for years and probably isnt an idiot, so it is still possible to buy old ones that havent been abused.
 
DiamondMark said:
Yes you are better to buy the top of the last model than the bottom of the next.

Fortunately Saabs attract the type of owner that keeps a car for years and probably isnt an idiot, so it is still possible to buy old ones that havent been abused.
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Yes that is why i am swaying over to the SAAB route and not the BMW.

I just feel that the 900 seem to go for the same price as the 93 and be in the same condition roughly.

What is wrong with the one i linked to? It has low mileage, only 2 owners from new.

Also i am currently watching this one, its higher mileage but the seller has 514 feedback at 100% so i feel he will be the most honest, also i prefer the 2 doors and the colour, plus it has the suspension kit.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200535783235&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT
 
Dont want to sound like an arse but just because someone has sold 500 things on ebay it dont make it a good car.

The other one was cat d you said, plenty about, dont buy a smashed repaired one.
 
I sold my Saab 9-3t for £425 a couple of months ago - incredibly reliable most of the time, I did the following work - here's the cost, parts only, I did the work myself.

Clutch - £426
Exhaust - Rear and mid sections - £195
Services - £30 a time.

Thats just a couple of bits. Do you still want a car that 'looks good at college'?
 
[TW]Fox;17682552 said:
It's an insurance writeoff as a result of an accident that was severe enough to destroy the front suspension that he's then fixed himself?
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Tell him Fox im going to have a drink soon so wont be able to type properly :)
 
-westy- said:
I sold my Saab 9-3t for £425 a couple of months ago - incredibly reliable most of the time, I did the following work - here's the cost, parts only, I did the work myself.

Clutch - £426
Exhaust - Rear and mid sections - £195
Services - £30 a time.

Thats just a couple of bits. Do you still want a car that 'looks good at college'?
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That seems a lot, over what time period was that? Also that seems a really cheap price to sell the car for, they seem to go for a lot higher now.
And yes i go to college and would like a car that is not an embarrasment lol.
 
Everyone at college drives a sub £1k small hatchback that's rubbish - just deal with it. No one will think your car is wikkid if it's sat on the drive not running!

Mark - What happened to the 8pm rule, or is that only Mon-Fri :p
 
Peerzy said:
Everyone at college drives a sub £1k small hatchback that's rubbish - just deal with it. No one will think your car is wikkid if it's sat on the drive not running!

Mark - What happened to the 8pm rule, or is that only Mon-Fri :p
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Its saturday, we always end up with one of my wifes mates over on saturday and they all married ****ers, so i need to fortify myself.

Im not allowed to have my mates over because they all swear to much and frighten children :)
 
Buy a nice SAAB from a nice old man who's always had SAABs since he can remember but he's to old to dive now (or something along those lines, try looking in your local paper). Spend £500-700 on it, drive it like an idiot and make the most of the heated seats through the winter.

When you get a bill bigger that £200 bin it, you'll only be regret it when you get another bill for £300 a week later if you don't.

What's the most it could cost you, £500-700, the same price most of us on here spend on a full set of tyres every year. As long as you're happy with that and you follow the above then you'll be fine, it's not as of it's a £1000 Porsche.

People say "cheap cars go wrong all the time...", yes and you bin them when they do. Most people of here, rightly so because they own some nice kit, don't understand this. "Having" to fix a car because it's worth money is a totally different game.
 
timmothy said:
That seems a lot, over what time period was that? Also that seems a really cheap price to sell the car for, they seem to go for a lot higher now.
And yes i go to college and would like a car that is not an embarrasment lol.
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That was over 18 months or so - another one to add - rear engine mount, another £60. Saab aren't cheap to fix, but if you get one thats been looked after, it'll be fine.
 
Spamalot said:
People say "cheap cars go wrong all the time...", yes and you bin them when they do. Most people of here, rightly so because they own some nice kit, don't understand this.
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We dont understand this because its a stupid theory. The problem is where do you draw the line? Once you start running a car it becomes more than just its purchase price.

So you buy a 500 quid car. Then you pay for an MOT and it needs £200 to get through. You are not going to bin it for the sake of 200 quid so you spend the money. Then it needs a couple of tyres at £100. Then something breaks but its only £150 and wont need doing again. Then something else goes but its only £90 and could happen on any car so you do that.

Then a £400 part goes. Do you chuck it away? It's only worth £500 right? Correct but hang on a sec since buying it you've already thrown £540 at it, so its a bit of a waste not to fix it, right?

Where is the line? It's all very well pretending you'll just bin it when it drops a bill but how many people can draw the line in practice?
 
DiamondMark said:
Its saturday, we always end up with one of my wifes mates over on saturday and they all married ****ers, so i need to fortify myself.

Im not allowed to have my mates over because they all swear to much and frighten children :)
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Get a taxi down to good old Woking and come out swearing and scaring children in town one Saturday :p

Don't, it's a hole.

To add a bit of on topic to this post, cheap Saab or the best condition cheap car you can find. Friend of mine still has an M reg Micra she got first year of college, she's now 22 and it's been fine for her. Reliable and has heating, no one laughs as it always gets us home after a night out. All she did was filter for less than £600 and found the best condition car she could.
 
[TW]Fox;17682615 said:
We dont understand this because its a stupid theory. The problem is where do you draw the line? Once you start running a car it becomes more than just its purchase price.

So you buy a 500 quid car. Then you pay for an MOT and it needs £200 to get through. You are not going to bin it for the sake of 200 quid so you spend the money. Then it needs a couple of tyres at £100. Then something breaks but its only £150 and wont need doing again. Then something else goes but its only £90 and could happen on any car so you do that.

Then a £400 part goes. Do you chuck it away? It's only worth £500 right? Correct but hang on a sec since buying it you've already thrown £540 at it, so its a bit of a waste not to fix it, right?

Where is the line? It's all very well pretending you'll just bin it when it drops a bill but how many people can draw the line in practice?
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Plus the next **** box you buy inevitably needs 200 quid spending so might as well spend it on the banger you have already.

Want to know what i think? Probably not but here it is, if you are skint, get the bus cos cars cost money.
 
You still haven't answered my earlier question - What are you like mechanically?

And while I'm asking questions, are you not considering anything "Normal" for your budget at all?

This debate is a tough one and I'm really not sure what side to take. I've had absoultely nothing but old, cheap cars in my life, but buying a £700 Turbocharged Saab just seems like a little bit of a bad idea, espcailly when it seems that you haven't taken into consideration that it might (and probably will) go horribly wrong at some point.

Maybe I'm getting old :o.

[TW]Fox;17682643 said:
Cheap cars bleed money. It never seems like much because the bills are in isolation quite small.

Add them up.
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Ahh, but this is the point. The bills are small in isolation

If you're "poor" £100 here and £50 there doesn't seem much compared with Getting a few grand together to buy a half decent second hand car in the first place.
 
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