An exercise in curiosity

awec

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Bigus

What you have is ideal in all respects unless you have a big loan on it, you were too clever by far buying it.

Voodoomelon

awec wrote: »

I've been considering changing car for a while. My motivation has been to possibly reduce the amount I'm paying out each month on the motor without actually driving a worse car. I'd like some input and some thoughts!

I don't think there's anything you can do to achieve a lower monthly cost; this is rarely achievable inside this price bracket.

You could certainly drive a nicer car for the same money by coming down the years and getting a higher end marque, but your payments would remain the same and you'd have higher servicing/maintenance costs.

Aside from getting an older version of what you already have, I don't see you saving a lot of money, even with a petrol.

Supergurrier

Focus RS is clearly the only option here (Cya at next meet)

GE90

If your only doing ~ 10km a day in you 1.6 TDCI its only a matter of time before you develop expensive dpf problems.

I can't see you being able to change to anything unless you ditch the motor tax criteria of not much over €200/annum and get a car of the 2005/2006 vintage for €8000 that's a bit better than a Focus.

awec

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Tbh for the tiny mileage you do the likes of this mightn't be too bad but the 1.6TCDi focus would be superior in many ways....

http://www.carzone.ie/search/BMW/3-Series/316I-ONE/31713559270692500/advert?channel=CARS



More to tax, a year older, higher mileage.

If you sold you're own privately and haggled hard you could change for not too much cash.

Chuck Stone

Cool little car imo (they feel quite big inside and very solid)



2008
1.5
49 MPG
petrol
a/c
cruise control
low tax
€6500

http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/cars/4177157

fasttalkerchat

You will never save money by selling a good car and buying a used one.

Mycroft H

awec wrote: »

Hm, ok.

Sounds like I'll stay with what I have. No point in change for the sake of it.

Hang onto it.

To keep on top of the DPF issue, take it up the motorway once a week in 4th for a while, just so the exhaust gets hot enough to regen the DPF. Think of it as an excuse for a drive.

They're a reliable solid car apart from that.

BX 19

BX 19 wrote: »

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They're a reliable solid car apart from that.

Plenty of them give lots of serious trouble even when serviced to schedule using correct oil etc though. A lad I know will do all he can to avoid taking one (anything with that engine) as a trade in unless he can really cover himself or get rid of it trade.

Stheno

RoverJames wrote: »

Plenty of them give lots of serious trouble even when serviced to schedule using correct oil etc though. A lad I know will do all he can to avoid taking one (anything with that engine) as a trade in unless he can really cover himself or get rid of it trade.

I'd a friend whose two year old focus went on fire.

I'm wary of them since, no idea why it happened

@ awec, you could sell it and pick up something in bangernomics and bank about 5k over three years.

Mycroft H

RoverJames wrote: »

Plenty of them give lots of serious trouble even when serviced to schedule using correct oil etc though. A lad I know will do all he can to avoid taking one (anything with that engine) as a trade in unless he can really cover himself or get rid of it trade.

I'd say that's more the Irish mentality to looking after cars rather then the car itself. They don't tolerate abuse very well.

They're a solid design used in tons of cars. Peugeot/Citroen/Volvo/Ford etc.

deandean

Keep the car. Buy a bicycle for the commute.

awec

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