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Yes, and SEAT and Skoda.
Liverpool-Lad said:Thats what Im thinking...mmm
WJA96 said:Briskoda is your best bet. Red cars are not sought-after second hand so bargain hard. Black and Silver are the preferred colours with yellow being a distinct no-no at resale time. A remap at 55,000 miles is likely to be at £300-£500 to have it done and then quite expensive when the clutch, turbo and head-gasket all need replacing. Jabba and Celtic Tuning won't remap cars with over 70,000 miles on the clock at all. This is because a 10,000 mile car still has 90,000 unmapped miles of life in it's major components but only 50,000 miles life left in the turbo, head gasket and clutch after it's been remapped. A 50,000 mile car potentially only has 10,000 miles left. People tend to blame the tuner when expensive parts go pop soon after an upgrade so you can't really blame the tuners for being reluctant to do higher-mileage vehicles.
Liverpool-Lad said:Penny pinching fools.
Firestar_3x said:Can't belive how cheap those VRS's are going for, very temping if i was after a car of that size.
WJA96 said:I doubt it - they probably thought they would last longer - but the problem is that all they can do is test over big mileages rather than long timeframes
[TW]Fox said:Is this yet more evidence to suggest it is time, not mileage, which is a cars worst enemy? I'm still of the school of thought that would rather have a 100k 02 plate than a 50k W plate for the same money..
[TW]Fox said:I wonder why some people think you should buy a car purely based on size.
You know, if you buy an Octavia 5 door hatchback there is no law which requires you to have children and a dog. The doors are quite capable of remaining closed.
Why not simply set down what you want from a car - say, performance, handling, value, whatever, and then buy whichever one best fits that rather than restricting yourself to a certain size of a car only?
I'm sure Liverpool-Lad doesnt need the practicality of a 5 door hatch. But he isnt exactly paying more for that practicality, is he? It comes free, if you like, due to the curious way in which the used car market operates.
[TW]Fox said:I wonder why some people think you should buy a car purely based on size.
Because size more often than not, means compromise?[TW]Fox said:I wonder why some people think you should buy a car purely based on size.
[TW]Fox said:I wonder why some people think you should buy a car purely based on size.
willd58 said:Because size more often than not, means compromise?
[TW]Fox said:Correct - buy small, lose power, buy big, lose... teenager with baseball cap image?
[TW]Fox said:Correct - buy small, lose power, buy big, lose... teenager with baseball cap image?
willd58 said:Only fun barges i can think of are the seriously quick ones, like M5's, anything less, and id rather be a passenger than have to suffer the chore of driving.
Ah you got me!!!![TW]Fox said:There speaks somebody who has clearly never driven anything bigger than a Fiesta thats half decent, driving is most certainly not a chore in the right car
WJA96 said:As I understand it the timing belt is not the cam belt, but I'm willing to be corrected.
Yup, I think the water pump is made from plastic so thats prone to going
tblocksom's car is an excellent example of this - If he bought his car 3 years ago with 35,000 miles on the clock with 128,000 now showing he must be doing almost 30,000 miles per year. Those are almost certainly going to be long milemunching journeys and the car will be under relatively little stress where the engine gets to warm up fully before he uses the performance and probably he cools it down properly after using it too
[TW]Fox said:Correct - buy small, lose power, buy big, lose... teenager with baseball cap image?