Car for around 4-5k

Thing is, if there's a risk of damage to it, then i'd just get something for a few hundred quid. I see where you're coming from in a way, but i'd loathe seeing even £5K's worth of car get dinked and knocked to hell.
 
Id get a 4x4. A Land Rover Discovery or something would be ideal, you can easily drive through all the potholes mud and stuff on site without getting it totally cacked up, and if it does then it just gives it "character", just jetwash it down and it will be fine. Should be pretty comfortable for driving distance in too.
 
If you must spend thet money I'd get a pick up. Personally I'd buy the cheapest thing with tax and an MOT. I understand Why you'd want another motor. Had to use mine for 2 weeks on site and it was filthy after.
 
Saytan said:
how many world-class, super-OCD "toothbrush on the wheelarches" details will £5k get you?
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More than enough to keep it mint.

I had to drive through a building site a couple of days last week when it was chucking it down. The car got covered in mud, the carpets were a state and within an hour on friday evening it was looking spotless again.

Got to go with the idea of a decent fitted bootliner (one of the rubber ones with a decent lip), some fitted car seat covers and some decent car cleaning kit.

In the interest of wanting to answer the OP though... Focus 1.6 or something else generic. Or maybe a mk1 Octavia 4x4 ;)
 
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I delivered to a building site this morning, dust everywhere, got to the site office & parked outside was a 59 plate e60 550i

Sure it was a bit grubby outside, immaculate inside. I asked who it belonged to and ended up chatting to the owner. He told me initially he was using his Mrs's 1 Series to goto & from work but was getting ****ed off with all of the damage she was inflicting on it in supermarket car parks & the like!

Hence him using the 550, when I asked him about keeping it clean, he replied thats what these foreign car washes are for! :D

Made me think of this thread with a smile.
 
regulus said:
The Octavia is pristine and I need another car to get to get around for my job. I work in the construction industry and do a lot site visits. I don't like rolling up in my Octavia as it gets dusty and all other associated risks with parking on a major construction site. I work self-employed so I don't always get a company car, depending on the contract off course. For the next 9 months, I'll be forced to use my own car, hence the want for a cheaper car that I won't cry my eyes out if something happened to it.
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So what if it gets dusty? With all due respect, it's not a Veyron.
I was the same with my Leon, but then I began to realise it was just a diesel hatch.

I used to get annoyed when my pristine Z3 was dusty or muddy due to the staff car park, but I haven't washed it in ages so I like to think of it as a protective coating :D
When you come to move it on, using it on building sites shouldn't affect its value.
Certainly not £5000 + insurance + repairs worth.
 
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I can see where you're coming from - although you could easily afford to sort out anything that might happen to your car, you just don't like seeing it being badly treated.
What I don't understand though is why you want to spend £5k. Just spend £500 on something with a year's MOT and run it into the ground.
Funny thing is, if you bought a £5k car, you'd probably still feel protective about it and get annoyed when it gets dents, scratches, dust etc, thereby totally defeating the point of getting it in the first place.
 
I was fussy about my last £1500 car, just because it was new to me, plus clean and tidy when I got it. Some of this reads like someone with a 1 bed flat in a dodgy area shouldn't keep it look after it just because it's not a 5 bedroom detached with a pool

Still, I think cars should be bought to be used. Give the Octavia a valet every so often plus a few mats, seat covers and a boot liner!
 
R420LA6X2/4MNA said:
£5k pays for an awful lot of paint correction, valets, scuff repairs etc etc etc

stop being so bloody daft!
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That's a good point. I reckon I could pretty much get my car back to the condition it was in when it rolled out of the factory for £1000 (aesthetically).

Use your Octavia or just buy a £1000 Nissan Primera and watch it run foreverrrr and cost nothingggg!
 
[TW]Fox;19970941 said:
I really do think some perspective is required. Nobody is belittling your car or saying it sucks or anything like that - but that doesn't mean we can't offer perspective.

It's an £11k Octavia. A very nice car but is it really of such a high value that you need to spend nearly half its value on something else to protect it? You are increasing your car values to £16,000 to avoid damage to an £11k car.
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To be fair fox you are just as bad.

Every time the condition of your car is brought up, you go on about how much you do to make it perfect. ANd lets not forget that crease thread that got everybody so involved.

And the criticism of how others "don't look after their cars" comes out when looking at adverts for second hand cars, bemoaning how tatty they are, and scoffing at how people let the wheels get kerbed etc..

Could you drive your 530 to a building site and have it bashed by rocks and dirt every day ?
 
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