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Honestly, the timing of these things!! I bought a P-Reg Rover 416, for the g/f, off ebay the other day and am collecting it this afternoon.

Can't imagine they're all like that though - probably exceptionally unlucky. Parker give it a 4/5 reliability rating with just a watch-point on head gaskets. Spose if it's serviced regularly and not screwed all the time should be OK.

Bigus

Well, headgaskets was his biggest issue, the others were flat battery, and banged body work.

And I'd bet this was bought from a small local dealer for the "peace of mind" aspect, as opposed to buying privately.

Peter

-- "The truth is working in television is not very glamorous at all. I just go home on my own at night and sit alone and eat crisps."

Top tips:

#1) Try not to reverse into a school wall #2) Don't buy a rotorvator and allow this to cause you to reverse the car into things. #3) Don't let the local kids pebbledash it #4) If it's been clocked and bits start breaking, fix them properly rather than have a mate mess about with it.

To put this another way, I think the car in question would have been no different if it had been a Mercedes or Lexus, except it would probably have gone a bit further before they clocked it for Mr Muggins to buy as a low-miler with nothing at all wrong with the head, sir, heavens no. Give you loads of miles will that sir...

I've never bought privately, and probably never will.

Dealer-warranties have saved me a fortune over the years ! If something expensive dies, or is already dead, on your privately-bought car, then you're stuffed.

I've never bought from a dealer, fears of expensive servicing to to make sure that the warrenty remains valid puts the fear in me.

I've always bought privatly, at a price of at least a 3rd of what a dealer would charge if I could find one selling what I wanted, done minor routine servicing myself, and used local independant garages I've built a rapport with to do bigger jobs/specialist service stuff that might need a lift, or specialist tool.

exactly the same here.

Granted I reckon Nom likes to spend money rather than time on cars, which I suppose is valid to, and the cars I bought have been pretty much old but fun bangers.

Huh ?

As long as the work is done by a proper garage, it's valid. Doesn't have to be a franchised-dealer.

My second 405 came from the local Peugeot franchise. My local garage did all the warranty repairs and servicing with no problems at all. The warranty people just paid him the book-time of labour rate, just the same as they would the main dealer.

It's actually to their advantage to do this, is his £30/hour labour rate will be a BUNCH less than the Pug dealer :)

In any case, unless you somehow get a used-car-warranty lasting more than one year, you're not gonna need a service within the warranty period.

My other cars just came with the 3-months warranty from the independent dealer - took them back after a week with a list of faults, and they sorted them all out.

I use my local indy garage for all my work too - I wouldn't touch a franchise-dealer with yours !

£70 a hour inc VAT Labour at Arundale in Brid, so Scarborough is probly the same :) Glad I don't have to pay it :)

The silver 405 with the idling issue was comedy up Staxton hill :) "Fuck no, a bus, oh good lord keep going....."

I love my franchise dealer ;)

Yeah :D

All credit to them though - they replaced *all* the hoses in the engine bay to sort that out (they were all blocked/leaking/shagged). Unless they got lucky at the scrappers, it must have cost a few bob. And it was spot on after that, for the three years I had it.

From memory, they also replaced a gear linkage, bought four centre-caps for the alloys from the local Pug dealer, fixed the none-closing-leccy-sunroof, sorted one of the front foglights, replaced the working-REALLY-slowly motor in the passenger leccy window....er, I think that was it ?