Second hand car breakdowns

session savage

Hi every one.
I am working on a project and really need some help. I need statistics on one topic. I need to know what percentage of second hand cars suffer a mechanical failure within 6 months.
Could I ask you folks to please answer the poll thanks.
Sincere thanks everyone
Regards

Sobanek

Nope.

ba_barabus

Hardly a uni project given the time of year. Whose it for?

Sobanek

Could be a repeat

arleitiss

ba_barabus wrote: »

Hardly a uni project given the time of year. Whose it for?

He could be doing MSc in some kind of Statistics, as far as I know dissertation is to be written up to August?

SeanW

M.Sc. projects run through the summer to the next academic year.

In answer to the O.P:

No. My current car is a 2nd hand car I've had since 2009, only suffered its first unexpected mechanical failure last month.

CiniO

session savage wrote: »

Hi every one.
I am working on a project and really need some help. I need statistics on one topic. I need to know what percentage of second hand cars suffer a mechanical failure within 6 months.
Could I ask you folks to please answer the poll thanks.
Sincere thanks everyone
Regards

What do you exactly mean by breakdown / mechanical failure?

There is a difference between being stock in the middle of nowhere as car fails to run for some reason, to f.e. having a ball-joint to fix as it got bit loose and makes very subtle knocking sound on bigger bumps.

If it's the first one, then answer for me is NO.
If it's the second one then answer is YES.

colm_mcm

Out of the last 8 cars I've had, this hasn't happened.

Bpmull

Yes the focus has broke down twice I have it just over 3 months no other second hand car we ever bought broke down and that was a fair few. Anyway There's always one.

session savage

I basically mean any mechanical failure whether that be breakdown or a shock going.
Thanks everyone this is really helping.

CiniO wrote: »

What do you exactly mean by breakdown / mechanical failure?

There is a difference between being stock in the middle of nowhere as car fails to run for some reason, to f.e. having a ball-joint to fix as it got bit loose and makes very subtle knocking sound on bigger bumps.

If it's the first one, then answer for me is NO.
If it's the second one then answer is YES.

session savage

Shameless bump sorry.

Grimreaper666

Renault should win this one hands down.............

djimi

My last 5 cars have all been second hand; four had no issues, one had the clutch slave cylinder go in the first week and hasnt given any trouble since.

Del2005

No 2nd hand car I've bought has broken down within 6 months. But I know of plenty of brand new cars breaking down within 6 months.

This isn't really a good place to find an average failure rate as most posters here have an above average knowledge of cars so are less likely to buy unreliable cars.

anthony4335

I have had 4 different cars in the last 2 years, and only one developed a problem outside of wear and tear, with the alternator. One was trouble free for 3 years and another had no break downs but some niggly little things went wrong.

rocky

Do you work for Renault OP? Buy a 132, or you have a 120% change to break down in the first 6 months!!

session savage

Del2005 wrote: »

No 2nd hand car I've bought has broken down within 6 months. But I know of plenty of brand new cars breaking down within 6 months.

This isn't really a good place to find an average failure rate as most posters here have an above average knowledge of cars so are less likely to buy unreliable cars.

Thanks for that. Its actually the reason I came here. I need to be able to say the statistics are taken from a group of people where knowledge (or lack of) was not a contributory factor to the mechanical failure.

The response is great everyone.
Thanks so much.
Regards

session savage

rocky wrote: »

Do you work for Renault OP? Buy a 132, or you have a 120% change to break down in the first 6 months!!

ha ha no I don't work for anyone related to cars.
This is a project which will be an important part of an application process for a course.

ba_barabus

Grimreaper666 wrote: »

Renault should win this one hands down.............

More likely VW

ba_barabus

session savage wrote: »

This is a project which will be an important part of an application process for a course.

Just out of interest what course?