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    #92
    David09
    Registered Users Posts: 541 ✭✭✭David09


    Stheno wrote: »
    It was one of the recommendations on page one.

    They are not bad little cars, tend to hold their value well too.


    Fiesta would be my default choice. I've had a few fords and I've never had or heard of any expensive issues. Parts and servicing are rock bottom cheap. I'd recommend one.


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    Crann na Beatha
    Registered Users Posts: 11,763 ✭✭✭✭Crann na Beatha


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    #94
    Stheno
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    Aquila wrote: »
    http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/cars/3601758
    What do ye reckon?

    Look for details of the service history and check that anything that needs doing has been done.

    Don't buy it without an NCT

    If you want to be more sure, have a mechanic you know check it for you.

    And if you do buy, remove those hideous seat covers, and the religious medals!


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    Crann na Beatha
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    Stheno
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    Aquila wrote: »
    lol ah i know,they are tacky arent they

    They are, but sometimes buying a car is like buying a house, just redocorate it in your head.

    Looks a nice enough car though, mileage if anything for an 8 (almost 9) year old diesel is a bit low, which would make me check the service history (when I drove a diesel I was doing 20 - 25k miles a year) but that's possibly me being old school.

    Did you drive it or even go and see it?


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    Crann na Beatha
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    Stheno
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    Aquila wrote: »
    Lads which is the better engine on the fiesta the diesel or petrol?

    The 1.25 petrol is considered to be a great engine, pretty much every small car thread you see on here recommends it.

    I don't know much about the diesel, but diesels do tend to need a little bit more looking after in terms of servicing, doing constant short runs and no long drives on them are not good for them.

    That's my experience from 10 years ago, I had a diesel as I did a min. of 600 miles a week over 100 miles a day.

    Depends on how you are going to use it. At the end of the day, the Fiesta is a good car. Should be reliable, economical, and easy to maintain, so check all of that.

    Have you seen a 1.25 petrol you like?


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    Leonard Hofstadter
    Registered Users Posts: 5,540 ✭✭✭Leonard Hofstadter


    Petrol without a doubt for the 'Feshty'. They're much more tolerant of not being maintained at the appropriate intervals (there is far less to go expensively wrong in the petrol models), and while Irish people are pretty bad for car maintenance in general, it goes totally out of proportion with a small car like a Fiesta - at this end people just tax them and fuel them and only spend money on their cars 'to get it through the NCT'.

    I wouldn't get my hopes up about finding any supermini with FSH in Ireland - whereas in every other normal country it's seen as a selling point that a car has service history and people pay more accordingly for it! In Ireland it's all about age and mileage.


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    166man
    Registered Users Posts: 6,575 ✭✭✭166man


    captainspeed wrote: »
    I wouldn't get my hopes up about finding any supermini with FSH in Ireland - whereas in every other normal country it's seen as a selling point that a car has service history and people pay more accordingly for it!

    If you're being serious that just isn't true. There are plenty of supermini's out there with FSH. It's a pretty ridiculous statement to say there aren't and the cars with FSH in Ireland do hold their value more! :P


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    MuppetCheck
    Registered Users Posts: 11,866 ✭✭✭✭MuppetCheck


    166man wrote: »
    If you're being serious that just isn't true. There are plenty of supermini's out there with FSH. It's a pretty ridiculous statement to say there aren't and the cars with FSH in Ireland do hold their value more! :P

    It's his usual sensationalism...


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    geneyuss
    Closed Accounts Posts: 270 ✭✭geneyuss


    MuppetCheck wrote: »
    It's his usual sensationalism...
    arguing with everyone again,,,,is nobody allowed an opinion around you ??


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    #103
    MuppetCheck
    Registered Users Posts: 11,866 ✭✭✭✭MuppetCheck


    geneyuss wrote: »
    arguing with everyone again,,,,is nobody allowed an opinion around you ??

    If they talk sense ill take it on board. And captainspeed more than often does but a bit of jotting in here seems to create debate and some craic for us all. You have spoken nonsense in another thread and I assume that's the source of that comment?


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    David09
    Registered Users Posts: 541 ✭✭✭David09


    Aquila wrote: »
    Lads which is the better engine on the fiesta the diesel or petrol?

    I wouldn't have much knowledge of the diesel except that it's sourced from peugeot and is the same engine as in the peugeot 207 hdi. Therefore any problems that affect the peugeot would carry over to the fiesta.
    Agree with what has been said about the petrol 1.25. A well proven engine with reasonable performance, smooth running and easy/cheap maintenance.


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