Should i do this?

Blackstar

Blackstar

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Right, well right now I have a 1.1 ford fiesta. It cost me £300 and is in really good condition for an 11 year old car, insurance £475.20 for a year. (Taking into account that i've only had my licence for 5 months and bring 18.) Bought out of my own pocket not by my parents and care for it the best I can with my car noobness.
Now here is the dilema, my mum and dad both have cars. Mum has a Honda CRV and dad has a Volvo. The Honda is a company car and will be going back soon, so parentals have started looking for yet another car to replace that.
Before they got the Honda mum drove a R-reg 1.8 16v Vauxhall Vectra arctic, which was pretty nice, i know not the best of cars but it did the job. So that has been living in our garage for a while. (Still in working order though the battery is hooked up to a thing that keeps it working and it get a regular check over.)
My younger sister is 17 in April and wants to learn how to drive, so my parents have offered me this deal...
Give my little sister my fiesta and they will sell me the Vectra (which is worth about £800-£900) for £500, which I can pay for in installments over 3 months. They will MOT the car but I have to tax it. I'm allowed to take out the stereo that I (*cough* DRZ) put into it.
I've looked into insuring the Vectra and it is a lot cheaper than I thought it'd be £635.35 TPTF with my mum as a named driver me as the main driver.
My question is, do I go for it? I'm very very tempted as it is a much better car than the one I have now, much more reliable and able to handle long distances.
 
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First check bell.co.uk for insurance add both parents as named drivers to reduce the cost.

Sounds like a good deal and a nice step up from a fiesta. All depends how much you can afford.
 
Sounds good, if something goes wrong, and you claim they sold you a duff car, then you'll have more chances of them paying for it than if you bought privately :p
 
It's had a new clutch and gearbox, had a word with them just now and they said they will get a new timing belt put on before i get it.
 
Sounds like a nice upgrade to me and you/your family know the car and its history which is a bonus.

I guess you won't be thrashing it about like you're Colin Mcrae so handling/performance isn't an issue, especially if you're used to a 1.1 Fiesta. Vectras are fundamentally reliable, solid cars and relatively cheap to fix if anything goes wrong.

Go for it :).
 
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It's had a new clutch and gearbox, had a word with them just now and they said they will get a new timing belt put on before i get it.
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in that case go for it.
Vectra's can be total money pits...clutch and front suspension components being the main culprits.
it sounds like it's already been as future proofed as possible.
 
I used to like Vectras till my mate bought one. They are one of THE most unreliable cars ive ever worked on. They handle to the point, dangerous and are generally poor cars. But for £500 its a step up from your car :)
 
Nowt wrong with both those cars, the festa with it's Kent engine, still used in the KA, the veccy isn't anything special, but get;s the job done.

Make sure it drives ok, with no untoward knocking (bushes), then it should be fine, plus there's something about woman driving bigger cars, because usually they drive smaller cars, because they can't "drive" anything bigger.

There's a mum that picks up her kids from school down the road in a E39 M5,, "hello" :p
 
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if you know that the vectra is in good nick then go for it.... my dads had aa vectra for about 10 years now and its been great!... honestly prob the best car weve had.. well its my mums now.. he just got a new beemer!

go for the vectra mate....
 
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