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To buy or not to buy

  • 13-04-2013 5:42pm
    #1
    Mountaingrey
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 13 ✭


    First time car buyer. Saw a few today and unsure what to do. Any advice appreciated.

    Car 1 : Volkswagon Polo 04 1.2 car in good shape 90, 000 miles 4000e one year warranty and nct and will get it ready for nct for the following year

    Car 2 : Renault Clio 06 1.4 Also in good shape 38, 000 miles nct also to next year and one year warranty


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  • #2
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,520 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    I'd have the Clio.

    Assume its the model that just ran out (05 to 13) as opposed to the Clio campus (1998 shape)


  • #3
    Alanstrainor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,157 ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    That 1.2 in the Polo was never great.


  • #4
    Mountaingrey
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 13 ✭Mountaingrey


    Yeah it's the newer model


  • #5
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,520 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    How much is the Clio. Any link to the ad?


  • #6
    Mountaingrey
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 13 ✭Mountaingrey


    Oh sorry thought I post the price Clio is 4500. No ad online unfortunately it's a small little garage that mostly does service and repairs but sells on the side


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  • #7
    Bpmull
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,042 ✭✭✭Bpmull


    My driving instructors car was a 2006 Clio. I thought It was a decent car back 2 years ago when I was learning to drive. The only thing I hate was the 1.0 litre engine it was a joke. But I'd imagine a 1.4 is nippy enough. As for reliability there's over 250k km on his and last time I heard he never spent a penny on it only routine servicing and bear in mind that car doesn't exactly have an easy life. So they seem to be a reliable car which renaults generally are its one or 2 models that seem to cause people to say all renaults are useless there not. I'd have no issue buying a 1.4 Clio I'd say it would be a nice car op and should serve you well.


  • #8
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,520 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    Bp, the basic engine in the Clio is 1.2 :) must have been something wrong with the one you drove if it felt slow for a 1.0


  • #9
    Bpmull
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,042 ✭✭✭Bpmull


    colm_mcm wrote: »
    Bp, the basic engine in the Clio is 1.2 :) must have been something wrong with the one you drove if it felt slow for a 1.0

    Maybe it was a 1.2 I thought he said it was 1.0 litre but it was a while ago. It felt really sluggish to me to drive but then I'm used to diesel and was driving a 1.5 dci megane at the time which was so much quicker and it was the first and only petrol i have driven on the road. In saying all that I was only learning to drive so I wouldn't of exactly been driving it on either. Still I'd imagine the 1.4 that the op is looking at is a nice car. I'd prefer it to a polo anyway.


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