Can I get anything worthwhile for under 1k?

GT3 said:
Insurance groups don't mean that much, I've been insured on one since I was 21 quite cheaply.
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It's £30 a month more, which is a fair bit. I can get insurance on the Golf and the Touran for £110 a month total but the Xsara is £83 on it's own.
 
If £30 a month is a 'fair bit' this only goes to continue to highlight how its time to ignore Golfs and buy something cheap and reliable. You'll probably spend more than that 30 quid fixing the Golf each month.

It would be nice if you could buy and run a 1.8T GTI. But you have a £1k budget and want something cheap, so it really isn't the right choice.
 
Fox is basically spot on here. I run a cheap old Peugeot 205 GTI. I run it with the full expectation that things will break, and that I'll need to regularly spend money on it or at least work on it. I didn't buy it to save money or give me faultless service, it would have been an unwise choice for that, I'd have bought a Mondeo or something.
 
Buy a cheap VAG car with a 1.8T, I dare you. It'll fall to bits in no time.

All the 1.8Ts are very similar. They're pretty reliable, but the cheaper you go, the more trouble you'll likely encounter with one as there's a hell of a lot to go wrong with them.
 
Mk4 Golfs for under a grand are cheap for the wrong reasons. People pay good money for them, your budget only allows the junk golfs nobody else will buy.
 
Like the 2.0. I had a mk4 Golf 2.0 GTI, bought around Christmas 2010 for £850. Sold it to someone at work and he is still using it and hasnt spent a penny on it. Must be over 140k miles now.
 
I actually wish I had. Regardless of if you are being sarcastic. It was a nice example but he sold it for £1350 now.
 
Look, you want a Golf.

Inside, you're trying to find a reason not to buy a Golf, but when sensible options are suggested you still want a Golf.











BUY A GOLF!!!!!
 
I like the look of Hedges' link.

It's been well looked after and considering all the work done and paid for, it will probably go for some time to come and you won't have to worry about the expensive stuff breaking - cambelt, clutch, flywheel, gearbox.

If you can, have a good look at the structure of the car, give it a drive and if there is no major structural rust, it will last for another couple of MoTs, at the very least.

Kind regards,

David
 
Rover 75 2.0 or 2.5?
Super super cheap as no one wants them. A lot of car for the money. One of my mates just bought one and it's superb for the money.
 
Rilot said:
Rover 75 2.0 or 2.5?
Super super cheap as no one wants them. A lot of car for the money. One of my mates just bought one and it's superb for the money.
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It is but it has plenty of bork potential.

He needs something either super reliable or superbasic so if it does break it costs 10p to fix.

A Rover 75 is neither. Neither is a Golf. A Nissan Primera however is super reliable, and a Mk2 Mondeo for half his budget is superbasic and leaves spare cash.

What the OP is really doing is looking at cars you look at with a £3k budget and no requirement for 'no running costs just for getting to and from work', but going right to the sediment at the bottom of the pond instead.
 
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