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Farmers what your car ?

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  • #52
    restive
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,066 ✭✭✭restive


    06 Ford Focus 100K miles 1.8 Diesel.

    Paid €18,750 in 07, but mainly used for commuting to work and of course drawing a trailer to and from the co-op.


  • #53
    Juniorhurler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,363 ✭✭✭Juniorhurler


    jerdee wrote: »
    Had superb elegance leather heated seats 04 bought it three years old for 11500 off a lad in navan put 140k replaced flywheel twice but nothing else best car i ever had and lads around me with audi and bmw could not get over the room in it.

    Amazing peoples different experiences with similar cars. Had an identical 05 one of these and it broke my heart. C.V joints were replaced at almost every service interval and it gave cruel electrical problems which cost a fortune.

    We replaced it with an 08 Honda Accord. Great car and I have an 06 D-max crew cab for the car and a 5 mile commute to the day job. Ultra reliable so far.


  • #54
    hedgecutting eddie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 164 ✭✭hedgecutting eddie


    2006 toyota hilux 75k miles bought in 2009 with 44k miles for 16k lovely jeep every farmer shud have a crew cab


  • #55
    dasheriff
    Registered Users Posts: 245 ✭✭dasheriff


    05 landcruiser with 200k km cost me 9,500 2 years ago, and a 01 skoda fabia..


  • #56
    thenashlegend
    Closed Accounts Posts: 478 ✭✭thenashlegend


    I have a Honda Accord 2.2 diesel, I'm on and off the farm with college. But the father has a 1.3 Starlet and its pulled more meal than any of the "farmers" Lancruisers and Hilux's :D With 190k miles it doesnt owe us anything!:)


  • #57
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    thenashlegend wrote: »
    I have a Honda Accord 2.2 diesel
    How do find the accord? Supposed to be uber reliable. Pity the boot isn't that accessible.


  • #58
    butt1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86 ✭✭butt1


    i bought it in 1994,iam thinking of up grading,ive got a 1991 vw jetta diesel,50 miles to a gallon,311,000 miles on the clock,its paid for,if i got a good tradein ide consider it,but money is scarse so all i be spending is 2k


  • #59
    Timmaay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,394 ✭✭✭✭Timmaay


    Wow, the average mileage of all our cars must be well above the national average, with several of you over the 200kmiles! My car is hardly run in with 94,000 miles on it!


  • #60
    marknjb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 196 ✭✭marknjb


    03 passat 1.9 diesel 175000 miles on the clock . problem free touch wood


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  • #61
    JohnBoy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,342 ✭✭✭JohnBoy


    Those of you with the real high milers, what's your policy, do you buy new/nearly new and run for years and years, or are you changing relatively often and just buying highish miles to begin with.


    Me? I like to change relatively often, tend to buy stuff around 10 years old and 100k or so.


    A mate's parents are on their third car in thirty years (and they only have this one three or four years) they buy new, service well and change when the repairs get too big.

    Their last car was a two hundred and something thousand mile vento which was scrapped cos it needed a gearbox. The jeep is a 98 trooper with around a quarter of a million on the clock too. it's amazing what some mechanical sympathy and good servicing can get you.


  • #62
    snowman707
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,279 ✭✭✭snowman707


    JohnBoy wrote: »
    Those of you with the real high milers, what's your policy, do you buy new/nearly new and run for years and years, or are you changing relatively often and just buying highish miles to begin with.


    Me? I like to change relatively often, tend to buy stuff around 10 years old and 100k or so.


    A mate's parents are on their third car in thirty years (and they only have this one three or four years) they buy new, service well and change when the repairs get too big.

    Their last car was a two hundred and something thousand mile vento which was scrapped cos it needed a gearbox. The jeep is a 98 trooper with around a quarter of a million on the clock too. it's amazing what some mechanical sympathy and good servicing can get you.

    just looking back over years the we started with 1 car and 1 tractor.. to day the 'family' set up consists 3 tractors 2 jeeps 3 cars 2 vans

    we mostly buy fairly high mileage vehicles about 3 to 5 years old , we find motor vehicles depreciate most in the first 5 years

    we are strict about servicing and maintance, and they are not not spared especially the patrol , .. son has it gone with lambs this morning , I am taking cows to the factory to night and son is back in the driver's seat with more lambs to morrow morn ... it will clock over 500 miles in 36 hours with box.


  • #63
    PatQfarmer
    Registered Users Posts: 597 ✭✭✭PatQfarmer


    04 Merc C200k with tiptronic bought from new in the "good days";).
    Pity it's petrol, but does 30mpg and pulls a trailer really well.
    200kms on clock.
    Only bug-bear is tracking. It goes off regularly and can scrub off the tyres if I don't keep a good eye on it.
    Boot lined with plastic, so I throw everything into it. Takes 9x 25kg bags of nuts:D


  • #64
    keep going
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,551 ✭✭✭keep going


    bought a 99 grand vitara for1000yoyos in feb and got 300 for the old one that had "a bit of a tip"120k on the clock and going grand.great bus for the land but would not be able for a 5 cow box. herself has 307 which can take 7 seats


  • #65
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    doing a bit of a tot on the way home this evening with animals and two of us who are full time on the farm are doing 3500hrs (rough figures but 100k km and 1500hrs min on tractors) between us of driving time each year be that in the car,jeep or tractor just for the farm. Im spending 33.5hrs a week on average in the driving seat:eek:


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