Recommend a car

sparkle_23

My boyfriend has started a new job and he has to travel an hour to work and from work each day, 5 days a week. He's 22 and on his 2nd provisional. He plans to take his test soon.

I was just wondering what would be a good reliable car for that amount of driving? And better value on insurance considering his age? This may seem like a silly question but, for example, is a 1.4 engine petrol the same as 1.4 diesel? Powerwise and with regard to insurance... His budget is about €4500 and that has to include insurance too!

So any recommendations?

YouTookMyName

1.4 diesels for that money are rare.

1.4 Corolla be your best bet.

David09

Take his budget, chop it in half and you would still get a decent car for it.

Sometimes older cars are more reliable than newer ones, especially certain brands and ones with dmf's, dpf, etc, etc...

Example, An older hdi diesel peugeot 406 would be a far superior car to a later peugeot 307 or 407 and wouldn't have all the inherent problems that go with them..

colm_mcm

An astra 1.7 diesel is worth a look

sparkle_23

Would a Fiesta or Focus be worth looking at?

Stevie Dakota

Given the limited means I would stay away from diesel altogether, there is potential for expensive bills on diesels of that age.

I would be looking at a 1.1-1.4 petrol and Japanese, e.g.

http://www.carzone.ie/search/Mazda/Mazda2/1.3-Low-/201132203863023/advert?channel=CARS

sparkle_23

Oh really? So it's best to stay away from older diesels?

YBTurbo

1.25 Fiesta... Save up, pass test and buy a Focus.

Tigger

*Sparkle* wrote: »

My boyfriend has started a new job and he has to travel an hour to work and from work each day, 5 days a week. He's 22 and on his 2nd provisional. He plans to take his test soon.

I was just wondering what would be a good reliable car for that amount of driving? And better value on insurance considering his age? This may seem like a silly question but, for example, is a 1.4 engine petrol the same as 1.4 diesel? Powerwise and with regard to insurance... His budget is about €4500 and that has to include insurance too!

So any recommendations?

no such thing as a secod provisional

did you know that 14% of motorcyclist fatalities in this country are caused but crashes involviong unaccompanied learners

tell him to do his test first

Graham_B18C

Tigger wrote: »

no such thing as a secod provisional

did you know that 14% of motorcyclist fatalities in this country are caused but crashes involviong unaccompanied learners

tell him to do his test first

Out of curiosity, what percentage of them are because of fully qualified drivers?

I was wondering when the high horses would ride into this thread. The girl asked about help choosing a car for her bf, not to be lectured

Tigger

LIGHTNING wrote: »

Thats a slightly OT statistic to throw up.

her boyfriend is planning on doing 10 hours a week unaccompanied on a learners lisence, its in the original post so its very on topic

Liver06

I would recommend any ford preferably a focus.if you go onto carzone or look about the net, u should defo pick 1 up easy enough for that cash.

Tigger

Graham_B18C wrote: »

Out of curiosity, what percentage of them are because of fully qualified drivers?

i don't know i'm sure loads are caused because of drugs and because of cows and some becasue of lads racing on public roads on their bikes

but 14% are by colisions with cars driver by learners that are illegally unnacompanied

I was wondering when the high horses would ride into this thread. The girl asked about help choosing a car for her bf, not to be lectured

helping someone chose a car to illegally drive for 10 hours a week is irrisponsaible tbh
i wasn't on a high horse nor am i part of a brigade

acually if she wanted the advise without opinion on his illegal plans she didn't need to include that information

but she did and she included the afterthought that he was planning to do his test soon as if that makes it ok

Zubeneschamali

Tigger wrote: »

tell him to do his test first

Yes, passing our half-arsed test will suddenly make him much less likely to kill a biker.

Tigger

Zubeneschamali wrote: »

Yes, passing our half-arsed test will suddenly make him much less likely to kill a biker.

its better that no test and away you go, but i agree that the test should be more comprehensisive

Tigger

LIGHTNING wrote: »

So what? He could be an outstanding driver or he could be a terrible one. Just because he is on a learners doestn mean he is a accident waiting to happen.

pointless even answering this tbh

sparkle_23

He's takes the train and then a bus to work at the moment. :rolleyes: He has his test booked for near the end of October. The idea is that he would have his own car by then so we're just looking now... And hopefully we will have found one by then!

He's on his 2nd learners permit then, he got his first back when it was called a provisional... I only said Provisional cause I thought people might point out about having learner's permit 6 months before taking a test. That doesn't apply to him.

colm_mcm

Tigger wrote: »

no such thing as a secod provisional

did you know that 14% of motorcyclist fatalities in this country are caused but crashes involviong unaccompanied learners

tell him to do his test first

Aren't 20% of irish licence holders on provisionals? What percentage of those accidents were the car drivers fault?