<£5k Car

Michael Myers · 11 Aug 2022 at 15:00

in your defence i have also been looking for weeks, but i cant bring myself to spend 5k on a pile of garbage that is everything on the market at the moment. times have changed and i don't like it :cry:

ShiWarrior · 11 Aug 2022 at 15:54

Amraam said:
Sorry folks, I must be causing some confusion. I meant that if I get boring car that I settle for, then it'll be a cheap run about for 6 months. However if I find something I'd like to keep longer, like a year or two, it'd need to be fun OR comfy, not necessarily both. Obviously a type R is only one of those haha.

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in this market currently i wouldn't bother, get something cheap like the Focus, you said something for 6 months ?
it will last you a lot longer than 6 months, and under 5K

Amraam · 11 Aug 2022 at 19:18

ShiWarrior said:
in this market currently i wouldn't bother, get something cheap like the Focus, you said something for 6 months ?
it will last you a lot longer than 6 months, and under 5K

It's crap, you're right, but I seriously have doubts the market will get better any time soon, if ever. Tin foil hats at the ready, but this great reset is coming soon I fear. This level of inflation isn't going to disappear any time soon.

Well under £5k for 6 months (then ideally an EV on PCP etc. later), or up to £15k if keeping for a few years, i.e. something newer and nicer that I will actually want to be in.

413x · 12 Aug 2022 at 14:33

Surely there's loads of cars under this price point?

Granted this was before things went crazy. But we have a Peugeot 207 automatic that was 3.5k its been great.

I've only had one car more than 5k in my life.

I must be very different to you guys. I can see loads of cars that are OK under 5k.

413x · 12 Aug 2022 at 14:41

Liquid_Entity said:
And then people wonder why they blow £6 to £10k on a brand new lease car. Much less hassle but preferable than throwing £6k to £10k down on a heap.

I just don't buy this.
I've never had a car in all the cars I've had that's cost anywhere near the amount a pcp car costs.

Im guessing people are more and more accepting of PCP so people's standards have increased?

My s2000 was 20 years old when it got written off. This is no exaggeration. It never had a single issue in 7-8 years I had it. And I used to rag that thing. Miss it really. Best and most reliable car I ever owned.
That cost me 8k. I put 60k miles on it and got back 8kish from insurance.

I did have some hassle with my celica. But again. Probably only 1k of bills in years I owned it. Much less than pcp.

pugheaven · 12 Aug 2022 at 15:29

413x said:
Surely there's loads of cars under this price point?

Granted this was before things went crazy. But we have a Peugeot 207 automatic that was 3.5k its been great.

I've only had one car more than 5k in my life.

I must be very different to you guys. I can see loads of cars that are OK under 5k.

Yep I'm with you I could find LOAD OF SUPERB sub £5k cars that will last years... don't know what peoples excpectations are nowadays... bit of snobbery maybe? Who knows, but the newest car I own is 12 years old... SRT8 (12), 350Z (15), Xedos9 (22) and the Camper (15), none of which have given major headaches...

Dyson · 12 Aug 2022 at 16:06

pugheaven said:
none of which have given major headaches...

You're a brave brave man saying that lol

Quick, touch wood

ShiWarrior · 12 Aug 2022 at 16:23

don't know your postcode
but

under 5K

(non turbo model)

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NVP · 12 Aug 2022 at 16:27

I swear this has to be the most annoying thread I've ever seen in motors.

Armageus · 12 Aug 2022 at 16:34

ShiWarrior said:
don't know your postcode
but

under 5K

(non turbo model)

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First one would be a no "Air con needs a regas" - yeah whatever

and too many air fresheners pictured.

Other two look ok though

ShiWarrior · 12 Aug 2022 at 16:36

yeah the bottom one peaked my interest really as the best of those 3

Amraam · 12 Aug 2022 at 17:21

Le Clandestin Brun said:
I swear this has to be the most annoying thread I've ever seen in motors.

So leave then? Sorry for being such a bore or burden.

Amraam · 12 Aug 2022 at 18:32

pugheaven said:
Yep I'm with you I could find LOAD OF SUPERB sub £5k cars that will last years... don't know what peoples excpectations are nowadays... bit of snobbery maybe? Who knows, but the newest car I own is 12 years old... SRT8 (12), 350Z (15), Xedos9 (22) and the Camper (15), none of which have given major headaches...

"Superb" cars under 5k? I don't want to know what you consider clean and remotely nice to be in, if you think I'm snobbish. Have you actually spent the time and effort I have looking at cars and worked out what the market is like? 5k gets you very little compared to 18 months ago. Every car I have gone to visit is nothing like the advert. The pictures are always carefully taken. Cars with 100k miles in this range are cars that previous owners have treated as runabout since day one. They're disgusting rust buckets most of the time.

Everything under that price range is horrible. I want a car I actually enjoy being in.

NVP · 12 Aug 2022 at 20:41

Amraam said:
So leave then? Sorry for being such a bore or burden.

If you hadn't noticed I'd left quite a while back after providing probably the most viable number of suggestions to you than anyone else in this thread, but your terribly indecisive nature and inexplicable willingness to dismiss anything without reason caused me to vacate quite some time ago - I thought I'd just pop in to see how it was going, caught up on the thread and found you in exactly the same place you were when you started dismissing things willy nilly for no reason again.

Making this the most annoying thread in motors there has been for quite some time.

Thanks for reading, I'm leaving again but will check back soon. Enjoy missing out on some real bargains.

Amraam · 12 Aug 2022 at 20:57

Le Clandestin Brun said:
If you hadn't noticed I'd left quite a while back after providing probably the most viable number of suggestions to you than anyone else in this thread, but your terribly indecisive nature and inexplicable willingness to dismiss anything without reason caused me to vacate quite some time ago - I thought I'd just pop in to see how it was going, caught up on the thread and found you in exactly the same place you were when you started dismissing things willy nilly for no reason again.

Making this the most annoying thread in motors there has been for quite some time.

Thanks for reading, I'm leaving again but will check back soon. Enjoy missing out on some real bargains.

I don't understand your personal disappointment? I came here for help and ideas, I have taken it on board and visited dozens of cars, many of them being ones that I have looked at. Perhaps if you'd take on board the feedback I have given following visiting these cars just like I have taken on board suggestions you have kindly spent time giving me, you'd realise that, yes, I am struggling to make a decision,but also all the cars I'm looking at are utter crap in the flesh compared to the adverts.

I can't believe as a 35 year old man I'm about to write this but that kind of hurts my feelings quite a bit. You have no idea how stressful I've found this - perhaps I need to grow up and just buy something? Or perhaps there's a reason I've spent almost my budget on therapy dealing with these struggles and emotions I don't understand? . Does it matter that you or others would happily go out and 'just get something already'? No. Because to me, this is something I'm struggling to make a decision on. Hence the reason for the thread.

I do have an indecisive nature. I don't know where this came from, but I am a terribly anxious person with mental health issues that causes me to have fears with commitments and decision making. I'm so terribly sorry that this has caused you to get frustrated aty apparent disregard or lack appreciation of your support...

Pick a message where I have dismissed something willy nilly with no reason? I guarantee you the reason is not simply 'I'm too picky'.

I thank you for your time spent helping he but let's leave our 'relationship' there. You didn't have to go out of your way to make me feel like a useless child. You could have jusg bowed out after realising you'd done all you could, again for which I thank you,but here we are.