Dirt cheap student car

[[TW]Fox]

so you are saying that you look the same and have the same credibility when you are student in a car under a certain price range no matter what car it is?

wrong.

When were you last at Uni? Nobody gives a stuff what you drive.

Infact when I had the Mondeo everyone thought it was really expensive just becuase it had leather seats. This is becuase students dont give a stuff about cars, you wont get cred with cars, and most of the time you'll be out getting ****ed so you either wont have your car or if you do, the bigger and comfier it is the better ride home it makes

 

[Kitchster_uk]

Xsara? Should be able to get a reasonable one for the £500 budget, better than the equivilent 306. Looks are not good but as above, it's a student banger, who cares???

 

[Izi]

No, but a 106/ knackered 306 is hardly any better than a mondeo now is it?

yep, way better for any student.

 

[[TW]Fox]

yep, way better for any student.

You just keep repeating the same thing over and over again but ignoring any of the more complicated questions on your opinion.

Why? You seem to be under the misguided impression that when buying a car for less than 500 quid, image is everything.

How old are you by the way? You don't seem very in touch with students.

 

[Izi]

You just keep repeating the same thing over and over again but ignoring any of the more complicated questions on your opinion.

Why? You seem to be under the misguided impression that when buying a car for less than 500 quid, image is everything.

How old are you by the way? You don't seem very in touch with students.

you seem to do exactly the same and come in hard on anyone who doesnt agree with you, take a look in the mirror.

You know what the same about opinions right?

I am 24, i went to leeds uni.

 

[[TW]Fox]

you seem to do exactly the same and come in hard on anyone who doesnt agree with you

At least i justify my opinions. You just repeat them over and over and over again without bothering to explain.

Lets try again - why does image and how you look matter on a cheap couple of hundred quid banger?

None of them have any image, they are all **** cars. The only 'image' you'll get is that of somebody who is skint. Which as a student, is fine.

 

[Izi]

None of them have any image, they are all **** cars. The only 'image' you'll get is that of somebody who is skint. Which as a student, is fine.

Kind of answered your own question. They are all going to be **** cars, but in my PERSONAL OPINION i would get the one with out the **** sterotype.

If you want me to list a actual reasons over the mondeo for a student:

many 106s on autotrader have 55-80k miles where as mondeos have 80k+ in 500 range.
the MPG is better on the 106
smaller car for around city
cheaper to repair.
less to go wrong on them
cheaper to insure? not sure on this one but i would have assumed so.
cheaper to tax

i am not just saying a 106, look at clios or any small french hatch back. hands down winner for students.

 

[[TW]Fox]

Everyone I know with an old clio spends their entire life getting stuff repaired on it.

My Mondeo never once broke when I had it. Not once. It just worked, every single day. Turn key, drive off. Thats it. All I had to do is put petrol in it. How can buying a French hatchback that breaks all the time be a better choice?

Is there ANYONE here who has run a £500 French hatch for 2-3 years and not had to repair a single thing?

Your average student uses their car for a once in a blue moon drive home, for which a crap French hatchback sucks and wont fit ANY of their stuff in, and occasional trips to the supermarket. With such low mileage, fuel economy doesnt matter.

Heck when I'm at Uni even with my 3 litre BMW I put fuel in once a month at the most! And thats driving back and forth from home!

 

[Housey]

2CV or 50's Beetle, it's student law.

 

[jaykay]

Friend has a clio 95 reg, got it for £600 and has spent about £250 ish on repairs, so keep that in mind. French cars not the greatest. Tbh i would go for a mondeo.

 

[[TW]Fox]

Another thing, all my mates would dread MOT day. Their French crap would always have a list of fail points.

Whereas I didnt give a stuff - handed over my 25 quid once a year and it never even picked up an advisory.

 

[fendi]

Everyone I know with an old clio spends their entire life getting stuff repaired on it.

My Mondeo never once broke when I had it. Not once. It just worked, every single day. Turn key, drive off. Thats it. All I had to do is put petrol in it. How can buying a French hatchback that breaks all the time be a better choice?

Is there ANYONE here who has run a £500 French hatch for 2-3 years and not had to repair a single thing?

Your average student uses their car for a once in a blue moon drive home, for which a crap French hatchback sucks and wont fit ANY of their stuff in, and occasional trips to the supermarket. With such low mileage, fuel economy doesnt matter.

Heck when I'm at Uni even with my 3 litre BMW I put fuel in once a month at the most! And thats driving back and forth from home!

I have a 1998 clio in the family, had it since new, 49k miles, nothing needed doing to it. Runs like a dream to be honest. Then again, it isn't thrashed around. Very cheap to run and maintain.

 

[[TW]Fox]

And its worth less than £500 is it?

You must have some pretty bad dreams if your Clio runs like one

 

[fendi]

And its worth less than £500 is it?

You must have some pretty bad dreams if your Clio runs like one

actually autotrader had it valued at around 1k, apologies.

dreams by nothing falling off and breaking yet . cheap and reliable. i think for that price just go with whatever you can find. you aren't going to be keeping it that long anyway.. (i hope )

 

[aproctor]

2CV or 50's Beetle, it's student law.

Cool and i'm sure your being sarcastic, but getting one of these with no problems will cost much more than £500, especially the beetle.

Kind of answered your own question. They are all going to be **** cars, but in my PERSONAL OPINION i would get the one with out the **** sterotype.

If you want me to list a actual reasons over the mondeo for a student:

many 106s on autotrader have 55-80k miles where as mondeos have 80k+ in 500 range.
the MPG is better on the 106
smaller car for around city
cheaper to repair.
less to go wrong on them
cheaper to insure? not sure on this one but i would have assumed so.
cheaper to tax

i am not just saying a 106, look at clios or any small french hatch back. hands down winner for students.

Its been covered several times that it is better to have 100k motorway miles than 50/60k ragged ones i.e short journeys.
They are not much cheaper to repair at all, and if they are its a god send as you will be doing it often enough.
What mpg figures have you got and what mondeo engine are you talking about?
Less to go wrong...thank god, but seriously my '97 mondeo has everythign working bar a central locking solenoid, which is £15 and DIY.
Cheaper tax - yes but the idea with these cars is to buy one with it, and £40 will be saved in repairs by buying a mondeo or any non french banger to be honest.

Seriously every person who has driven this fabled 106 you harp on about says that they wouldn't do it again.

 

[jimblowscash]

Jim, it's £500. What else do you expect?


A good choice, but still evil and a worse car than a Mondeo.

ive got a guy at work running a 106 on SVO it costs him pence to run.... it doesnt break down.. because its simple ok so its french but its got to be a 100000 times better than a mondeo of similar value

 

[Lopéz]

I can't fathom why anyone would buy an early 106 out of choice, particularly a diesel. Apart from the performance variants, they are nasty basic city hatches that should be avoided by normal folk.

When I was a student I had several crap cars. Sierra, Sierra Estate, Golf Mk2, Nova. The Nova was awful, the Golf was a free gift, the ones I actually liked were the Sierras. I did not struggle to park them in crowded Swansea because I am heterosexual.

Also I was on a Motorsport Engineering course, and even then nobody gave a crap about image on daily runabouts.

 

[Howard]

ive got a guy at work running a 106 on SVO it costs him pence to run.... it doesnt break down.. because its simple ok so its french but its got to be a 100000 times better than a mondeo of similar value

WTF how? Define "better"? Because it's smaller and "trendier"? ********, it's a girl's car. Or something you learn to drive in

I did not struggle to park them in crowded Swansea because I am heterosexual.

Lmao

 

[Fuzz]

This will rage on forever until the OP tells us what car he ended up buying.


I'm sticking to my guns and saying get the 106..

This comes from someone in the motor trade that has seen a variety of both cars to form a more accurate opinion over someone who happened to buy one and not have it break down on them once in a few years...
It a no brainer when running costs are involved
106 is cheaper to run, cheaper to insure, as cheap to get parts for and is a dam site more reliable than a mondeo.
Generally it doesn't rot away in front of your eyes either.

 

[[TW]Fox]

This comes from someone in the motor trade

Oh great, I forgot being 'in the trade' makes someone a complete expert on all areas of it..

is a dam site more reliable than a mondeo.

You've got absolutely no idea, have you? Got any 250k 106's at your place or is just a horrible unreliable Mondeo thats made it to a quarter of a million miles and still hasnt been scrapped?