Re: Second car 1000 quid maximum

The message from snipped-for-privacy@spam.vlaad.co.uk (Paul Cummins) contains these words:

21 Savanna. 7 seats, turbo diesel - great car.

The message from "JackH" contains these words:

You'll hate it. Corsas are vile.

This is number 4, 2 were TDs, 1 was a non turbo.

-- JackH

Citroen ZX 1.9D??

The message from "JackH" contains these words:

You poor bloke! I had loads of 'em as company cars and hated the bloody things. Harsh, noisy, heavy, slow (even the 1.4 16 valve), cramped, full of irritating design faults.

YMMV, obviously.

-- JackH

In message , Guy King writes

I've had them as [dis]courtesy cars. Don't like 'em, although the little

3-cylinder donk is lovely. The last one I had, had to do a hard (not emergency, but not far off) braking manoeuvre on the dual carriageway, and it got into a very strange corkscrewing motion which felt as if it was about to spin. Not nice. Maybe that was a bad 'un, but it was nearly new.

My sister bought one this year, kept it for about 3 months and chopped it in for a Clio. She hated it. Told her so.

The message from Steve Walker contains these words:

I bet you hated having to do that - but felt duty bound?

Go to

to see what you can get for your money. You should be able to get something around 8 years old with a mileage under

100k. The main thing with cars in this price bracket is how well they've been cared for and driven. You must also get a long MOT.

I've an M Reg Renault 19 Diesel in Hull that I will be putting up for sale in a few weeks for half your budget. There are similar vehicles at similar prices in the Autotrader, but if you're interested, mail me at temp @ 78b . com

Why don't you just use the Puma? You bought it to drive right? It'll depreciate anyway.

In message , Guy King writes

Naturally :0)

She had a 1.6 206 XSi, which she loved, but couldn't really afford the fuel and insurance bills for, so she swapped it for a 1.2 Corsa. Which she hated. In the meantime, she got promoted and moved from a central Manchester postcode to a rural Derbyshire postcode, and promptly changed it for a 1.6 Clio RSi.

Yeah, and if regularly serviced and nicely driven there's no reason why it shouldn't go to a very high mileage without major problems, particularly if a lot of the driving is motorway mileage (which if the OP is 'racking up the miles' then it probably will be). Pumas are reasonably economical, and don't have any major things that go wrong to my knowledge, so that's what I'd do. I don't see the logic in buying a nice car that you enjoy driving, and then buying another car that's cheap and much less enjoyable to drive, to do 90% of your driving in. Doesn't make sense to me (not a dig at SteveH btw!!!).

Peter

And this is why my second car is a 3.0 RWD straight six :D

(Still, I do regret not having more mileage allowance on my Beetle. Maybe I'll upgrade. First problem in months, I got a water leak - turns out that a grommet was missing on the sill. Fixed in a morning with no hassle and no mess/broken things on the car).

Richard

Heh.

I learned that one with the Primera experience.

Now I just do the 'cheap and enjoyable to drive' thing.

Pete, I see your point, and after re-reading my post I would agree with you. Thinking about the reasons why I want a second car, it is less about mileage but more to do with body/paint condition with the crap being deposited on it at work. Maybe I'm being a bit paranoid about rusting.

I suppose the best thing to do , would to be to buy an older second Puma:)

In that case why not buy/make a plastic cover for it whilst you're at work?

krystnors