How do I open my bonnet?

[Nimzicki]

In my defence I do get things like brake pads done often and have fairly decent tyres on it and I don't drive like a lunatic and spend most of my driving time in 5th doing 70 on motorways.

Then why in God's name do you own a Corsa?

 

[I_M_Weasel]

I mostly wanted something cheap to insure when i bought it and was only driving 10 mile a day, my situations changed though and I do more long distance driving. I don't really want to buy a decent car when I'm just going to put loads of miles on it. As I've alluded to I don't know a great deal about cars and don't really have the confidence to buy a more motorway orientated banger, I would be quite easy to rip off with a car.

 

[[TW]Fox]

I don't really want to buy a decent car when I'm just going to put loads of miles on it

But surely the more often you drive the more value you get out of a decent car?

 

[I_M_Weasel]

I agree that I would get more value but the amount of miles I'm putting on a car just makes its cash value plummet. If I bought a new car, in 3 years it would be a 3 year old car with a 100k on it. Would you buy that for a decent price?

When the time comes I'll be here asking for the advice of people who know better than me and I won't go to carcraft.

 

[[TW]Fox]

So you buy a 3 year old car from a decent manufacturer with 60k miles on it for a good price and you keep it until you are so utterly sick of it/it falls apart/whatever and then sell it for a grand.

Serves me well. My mileage is about to increase quite a bit - do I care about putting miles on my car? Hell no, it was built for it and it makes doing long trips loads better.

 

[I_M_Weasel]

I'll probably keep it until it needs another big repair then get rid, at that time I'll ask for advice on what car i should buy and for how much.

Got the bonnet open by the way, so I've got 2 headlamps again, thanks to everyone who offered me advice on how to do so.