Best petrol car on the road?

turbinejunkie

Hey all.

I will be buying a car during the summer, nothing too fancy, maybe a Corolla hatchback or VW Golf. Any suggestions on the best petrol cars on the road, easy on petrol and the likes. I am a student so need to keep the cost down.

Thanks in advance guys

colm_mcm

Disappointing thread the title promised so much



How much are you spending?

turbinejunkie

2500-3500

For Forks Sake

Best petrol car on the road?

turbinejunkie wrote: »

maybe a Corolla hatchback or VW Golf

Aw

Celly Smunt

swap out the old seats for some shiny leather ones,go on you know you want to.Go on sure,go on.

dh0011

avensis

Scortho

pmcmahon wrote: »

swap out the old seats for some shiny leather ones,go on you know you want to.Go on sure,go on.

What idiot gets a 166 paddy spec?
Even in Ireland I'd have thought that car would have been immune from it.
They are a gorgeous car, especially with tan leather

Celly Smunt

Scortho wrote: »

What idiot gets a 166 paddy spec?
Even in Ireland I'd have thought that car would have been immune from it.
They are a gorgeous car, especially with tan leather

Paddy spec is right,but you could easily spruce her up for 300 or so.Long NCT and the engine bay looks clean.

randy hickey

Here ya go;

http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/cars/4670895

Leaves you with a grand left over for coke and hookers - you ARE a student after all!

Celly Smunt

randy hickey wrote: »

Here ya go;

http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/cars/4670895

Leaves you with a grand left over for coke and hookers - you ARE a student after all!

Ex-taxi however

dh0011

i get worried when i see a new engine going into a car

dgt

dh0011 wrote: »

i get worried when i see a new engine going into a car

I don't..... :pac:

dh0011

I always wonder if the new one is giving trouble and now they are looking to offload the car

squod

http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/cars/4713891

ba_barabus

pmcmahon wrote: »

Paddy spec is right,but you could easily spruce her up for 300 or so.Long NCT and the engine bay looks clean.

Sadly the massive dent on the front wing doesn't

mickdw

I owned a 166 without leather many years ago. The leather is great but I have to say those cloth seats were fantastic too in terms of comfort etc.

smokeyjoe123

turbinejunkie wrote: »

Hey all.

I will be buying a car during the summer, nothing too fancy, maybe a Corolla hatchback or VW Golf. Any suggestions on the best petrol cars on the road, easy on petrol and the likes. I am a student so need to keep the cost down.

Thanks in advance guys

Just bought a 2003 1.4 Corolla hatchback myself last week. Have to say it's the best car I've owned to date. Mileage is good too, around 40mpg, so well over 700km from a full tank of petrol. Can't recommend them enough.

Scortho

pmcmahon wrote: »

Paddy spec is right,but you could easily spruce her up for 300 or so.Long NCT and the engine bay looks clean.

Might be an idea alright. Any alfa I see thats in good nick doesnt have the spec i want. Probably easier to change the spec than fixed a fecked car.

OP im the same age as you and ive drove a polo the last 3 years. Trust me you're only young once. Skip the polo stage and get something nice...

JohnBoy26

If by the best you mean the most reliable then a Corolla is going to be hard to beat.

debabyjesus

Buy an ep1 civic. put in petrol. drive.

JohnBoy26

debabyjesus wrote: »

Buy an ep1 civic. put in petrol. drive.

Electric power steering and gearbox issues are all too common in these. By Honda standards they were a poor effort.

Tea 1000

dgt wrote: »

I don't..... :pac:

I would, unless it was a brand new engine, which in fairness it never is. Service history on a used engine? Forget it! And it renders the history with the original engine null and void.

00833827

many of those era Avensis are on 2nd engine - mine is - and when searching for a replacement I found it difficult to get one (i could afford) - a fair few for sale with no engine

debabyjesus

JohnBoy26 wrote: »

Electric power steering and gearbox issues are all too common in these. By Honda standards they were a poor effort.

Nothing wrong with my eps and bearings never gave any trouble either, Honda fixed any bearing issues free of charge even well out of warranty. I presume you're saying the reliability of the ep's was a poor effort? Thats just silly really.

dh0011

i have never heard of an unreliable honda

JohnBoy26

debabyjesus wrote: »

Nothing wrong with my eps and bearings never gave any trouble either, Honda fixed any bearing issues free of charge even well out of warranty. I presume you're saying the reliability of the ep's was a poor effort? Thats just silly really.

There is nothing silly about it. The ep civics are not great by honda standards when it comes to reliability and they are no where near as good as their predecessor. The eps give it's fair share of problems in them and as for gearbox bearings it's becoming a bit of an issue in them and there is no way Honda will cover failed bearings nowadays and if they were in the past it just goes to show how problematic they were.

JohnBoy26

dh0011 wrote: »

i have never heard of an unreliable honda

There isn't many Hondas that give problems to be fair. however some models have given their fair share of problems over the last decade.

gowley

JohnBoy26 wrote: »

There isn't many Hondas that give problems to be fair. however some models have given their fair share of problems over the last decade.

is this not a contradiction johnboy if in your second statement you are also talking about hondas

166man

JohnBoy26 wrote: »

If by the best you mean the most reliable then a Corolla is going to be hard to beat.

Ah but they're just so boring though.... Live a little but a well maintained Alfa and you'll be grand. Once it has relatively recent enough timing belt change and solid suspension should be good for plenty of miles.

gowley

smokeyjoe123 wrote: »

Just bought a 2003 1.4 Corolla hatchback myself last week. Have to say it's the best car I've owned to date. Mileage is good too, around 40mpg, so well over 700km from a full tank of petrol. Can't recommend them enough.

to put this in perspective what other cars have you owned

debabyjesus

JohnBoy26 wrote: »

There is nothing silly about it. The ep civics are not great by honda standards when it comes to reliability and they are no where near as good as their predecessor. The eps give it's fair share of problems in them and as for gearbox bearings it's becoming a bit of an issue in them and there is no way Honda will cover failed bearings nowadays and if they were in the past it just goes to show how problematic they were.

Pretty sure they issued a service bulletin about it and extended the warranty on gearbox bearings to 7 years or 100,000 miles. To be fair the bearing issue is just an annoying noise and the car still drives fine.

As you probably know, Honda regularly top reliability surveys. Ep's are great cars, to say they have reliability issues is silly, imo.

JohnBoy26

debabyjesus wrote: »

Pretty sure they issued a service bulletin about it and extended the warranty on gearbox bearings to 7 years or 100,000 miles. To be fair the bearing issue is just an annoying noise and the car still drives fine.

As you probably know, Honda regularly top reliability surveys. Ep's are great cars, to say they have reliability issues is silly, imo.

Are you for real?:eek: You do know that the noise gets worse and worse until the bearing/bearings eventually fail which will in all probability ruin the gearbox. tbh i never heard of the extended warranty, Im not saying it wasn't there or anything though, I don't know, most are over the 7 years now anyway.

As for Honda regularly topping reliability surveys, I do know about that and I know in general that Honda do make some great cars, that's why i call these ep civics a poor effort on their behalf as they are not as reliable as the badge on the bonnet would lead you to believe. Honda certainly have made a more reliable car than these, even the Saloon and Coupe version that were out at the same time were more reliable than the ep hatchbacks.

colm_mcm

A few months back

JohnBoy26 wrote: »

The bearings go in the civic gearboxes. you could hardly define that as the gearbox falling out of them.

Even with gearbox issues a Civic is much better than a golf 1.4 or a megane imo.

JohnBoy26

colm_mcm wrote: »

A few months back

And your point is? I don't see what bringing up what I posted on here a few months back has anything to do with my above post.

The bearings go but if they are changed on time there will be no issue with regards to damaging the gearbox. There is a big difference between a gearbox falling out of a car compared to a gearbox with failed bearings or even a damaged gearbox.

The second thing I said in my post a couple of months back about the Civic being better than a 1.4 Golf/Megane is also true but that still doesn't make it the best car on the road does it?

JohnBoy26

gowley wrote: »

is this not a contradiction johnboy if in your second statement you are also talking about hondas

No it's not, my point was that most hondas are reliable but certain models haven't been up to their high standards. I said "some"Hondas, not all.

JohnBoy26

166man wrote: »

Ah but they're just so boring though.... Live a little but a well maintained Alfa and you'll be grand. Once it has relatively recent enough timing belt change and solid suspension should be good for plenty of miles.

I agree they are boring, it was if the op ment the best in terms of reliabilty is why I suggested a Corolla. I think I made that clear in my previous post.