What do ye think?????

oldhead

Hello all,

I need to buy a small car for work, im doing around 1200km a week. driving a landcruiser at the min but lets just say it a small bit heavy for running around in. use it for the farm. was looking at a ford focus van in a 1.6 or 1.8. in or around the 10k mark.has any readers any experience of these or would they recommend them. any other ideas greatly appreciated

Cheers

Stheno

oldhead wrote: »

Hello all,

I need to buy a small car for work, im doing around 1200km a week. driving a landcruiser at the min but lets just say it a small bit heavy for running around in. use it for the farm. was looking at a ford focus van in a 1.6 or 1.8. in or around the 10k mark.has any readers any experience of these or would they recommend them. any other ideas greatly appreciated

Cheers

have you seen any specific ones that you are thinking of buying?

If you have then throw up the links

colm_mcm

Bear in mind if you're going through tolls a car will be chaper, tax will also be cheaper on the car version.

JohnBoy26

oldhead wrote: »

Hello all,

I need to buy a small car for work, im doing around 1200km a week. driving a landcruiser at the min but lets just say it a small bit heavy for running around in. use it for the farm. was looking at a ford focus van in a 1.6 or 1.8. in or around the 10k mark.has any readers any experience of these or would they recommend them. any other ideas greatly appreciated

Cheers

A Kia Cee'd 1.6 diesel is what I would recommend. They are very reliable and cheap to run. A commercial version should be got well within your budget.

If your buying a focus go for the 1.8. The 1.6 diesel engine in them is a peugeot engine and is notorious for blowing turbos.

oldhead

colm_mcm wrote: »

Bear in mind if you're going through tolls a car will be chaper, tax will also be cheaper on the car version.

Cheers no i dont have any tolls to go through thank god, i wll be taxing it private anyway...

oldhead

Stheno wrote: »

have you seen any specific ones that you are thinking of buying?

If you have then throw up the links

No only began looking there this eve. thinking bout the 1.8

oldhead

JohnBoy26 wrote: »

A Kia Cee'd 1.6 diesel is what I would recommend. They are very reliable and cheap to run. A commercial version should be got well within your budget.

If your buying a focus go for the 1.8. The 1.6 diesel engine in them is a peugeot engine and is notorious for blowing turbos.

Cheers for that Johnboy, do you know what they are like on diesel, the 1.8 ones

colm_mcm

oldhead wrote: »

Cheers no i dont have any tolls to go through thank god, i wll be taxing it private anyway...

Taxing a van privately means cc rates though not emissions

JohnBoy26

oldhead wrote: »

Cheers for that Johnboy, do you know what they are like on diesel, the 1.8 ones

Tbh i don't know that as i have never owned one.

Bpmull

colm_mcm wrote: »

Taxing a van privately means cc rates though not emissions

Your right there as I tax my 2008 astra privately and it is based on the cc rate which is grand on a 1.3. Actually just out of curiosity are all cars on 2008 plates taxed by emissions or is it only ones which were registered after a certain date in 2008. Op as for the focus I heard of a few mechanics that the 1.8 was the better engine afaik it is 6 speed and the 1.6 is only 5 speed but maybe all the new model are 6 speed now.

colm_mcm

cars taxed after July 08 are all emissions. Before July they were all on cc but were moved onto emissions if the rate was lower

Bpmull

colm_mcm wrote: »

cars taxed after July 08 are all emissions. Before July they were all on cc but were moved onto emissions if the rate was lower

Thanks colm I could remember alright that the emission tax was not out January 2008. But I suppose if cars registered before July 2008 were moved to the emissions tax after if it was lower then when buying second hand it doesn't matter when a car was registered in 2008.

colm_mcm

Bpmull wrote: »

Thanks colm I could remember alright that the emission tax was not out January 2008. But I suppose if cars registered before July 2008 were moved to the emissions tax after if it was lower then when buying second hand it doesn't matter when a car was registered in 2008.

It matters if the rate went up

Bpmull

colm_mcm wrote: »

It matters if the rate went up

Surly the vast majority of cars cost of tax went down when the system changed but I know what you mean alright.

JohnBoy26

Bpmull wrote: »

Thanks colm I could remember alright that the emission tax was not out January 2008. But I suppose if cars registered before July 2008 were moved to the emissions tax after if it was lower then when buying second hand it doesn't matter when a car was registered in 2008.

I know two people with an 08 1.4 ford focus. One of them is on the cc based tax and the other on the emissions based tax. The person with the focus on the cc based tax is paying 385 per annum and the person with focus on the emissions based tax is paying 570 :eek:

JohnBoy26

Bpmull wrote: »

Surly the vast majority of cars cost of tax went down when the system changed but I know what you mean alright.

Most went up because most cars in the country at the time were petrol cars with high emissions.