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advice on first car

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  • #2
    JohnBoy26
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,532 ✭✭✭JohnBoy26


    positivenote wrote: »
    Hi al,
    hoping to view this tomorrow... any opinions /advice etc... Looking at it for a friend whose buying there first car

    http://www.carzone.ie/search/Opel/Corsa/CLUB-1.0/31413586057061180/advert?channel=CARS

    cheers
    My advice is don't bother going. Them Corsas are pure rubbish.


  • #3
    EazyD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,207 ✭✭✭EazyD


    4450 is seriously high for a 1l corsa of that age and mileage, for that money there are far better options, yaris would be first to mind, far more reliable than any corsa and you'd have cash to spare


  • #4
    bazz26
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,360 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    Look for a Fiesta instead or drop back a year and get a Yaris.


  • #5
    RidleyRider
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,783 ✭✭✭RidleyRider


    Don't throw your good money away on a corsa :eek: Try get a Fiesta of the same era.


  • #6
    Kesha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30 ✭Kesha


    In this class it is either Honda Jazz, Toyota Yaris, Skoda Fabia or Seat Ibiza or Hyundai Getz.
    Not sure about the right year for a Fiesta. But the new ones are supposed to be good too.
    Corsa would be third before the last on my list.


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  • #7
    RidleyRider
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,783 ✭✭✭RidleyRider


    http://cars.donedeal.ie/find/cars/for-sale/Leinster/?filter%28make%29=Ford&filter%28max_engine%29=Max+Litres&filter%28max_mileage%29=Max+KM&filter%28max_price%29=5000&filter%28max_year%29=Max+Year&filter%28min_engine%29=Min+Litres&filter%28min_mileage%29=Min+KM&filter%28min_price%29=3000&filter%28min_year%29=Min+Year&filter%28model%29=Fiesta&source=all

    Fiesta land :D


  • #8
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    JohnBoy26 wrote: »
    My advice is don't bother going. Them Corsas are pure rubbish.
    RidleyRider wrote: »
    Don't throw your good money away on a corsa :eek:
    I don't doubt your expertise on Corsas but do you have personal experience or sources for your trash talk? That would help validate your opinion.


  • #9
    positivenote
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,337 ✭✭✭positivenote


    the fiestas are to big (1.25l) for the insurances costs thats why was looking at a 1L


  • #10
    Kesha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30 ✭Kesha


    this car here would cost about 1/3 of acquisition cost, insurance and repairs of the Corsa:
    Yaris 1L 2000 64miles


  • #11
    positivenote
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,337 ✭✭✭positivenote


    Thanks for the feedback guys, been put offthe corsa but have come across this Polo. It seems to have a good detailed history aswell. Opinions?
    http://www.carzone.ie/search/Volkswagen/Polo/NCT-04%231/34413632876983040/advert?channel=CARS

    cheers

    orry that link doesnt work for some reason? But its a polo 2004, 51k miles, Full history, 3month warrenty €4650 asking price


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  • #12
    Kesha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30 ✭Kesha


    Polos are just as bad. Apparently Polo and both Skoda Fabia and Seat Ibiza are the same car but the latter two are reputedly more reliable.


  • #13
    RidleyRider
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,783 ✭✭✭RidleyRider


    biko wrote: »
    I don't doubt your expertise on Corsas but do you have personal experience or sources for your trash talk? That would help validate your opinion.

    Why yes, yes I do my good man. The father owned 2 in my life time and both were ****e, my girlfriends father was the same story and ended up buying a fiesta. My ex girlfriend drives one thats slowly falling to bits.

    They take care of there cars re- keeping the appearance respectable, servicing etc.. they're just god awful cars.


  • #14
    J Bourke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 105 ✭✭J Bourke


    Me and my gf have both owned corsas, mine a late b model and hers a c model, both with the 12v 3cylinder. Brilliant on fuel but DANGEROUSLY slow, pulling out of junctions, overtaking, general acceleration.. forget it.

    IMO go for the yaris, never see them on the back of a recovery truck and rarely see them in breakers yards(where i am anyway) because they almost never break down. :)


  • #15
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,985 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    biko wrote: »
    I don't doubt your expertise on Corsas but do you have personal experience or sources for your trash talk? That would help validate your opinion.

    I may pitch in with my hatred for corsas as I've had one... From another thread
    J Bourke wrote: »
    IMO go for the yaris, never see them on the back of a recovery truck and rarely see them in breakers yards(where i am anyway) because they almost never break down. :)

    I will just contradict everything in that last part of the post by saying I've seen a few on the back of recovery trucks, plenty in scrap yards and my gf's one has broken down, along wit a few others I can think of.

    But all in all a far superior car in every way than the corsa


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