5k Budget

batman88

Anyone recommend a decent car for motorway driving. Will be doing 400KM a week. Max tax would be 700 I would be looking for.

Was thing of Mondeo. What are these like reliability wise?

monsterdev

Go for a Vag based motor. Skoda and seat for cheap luxury driving ! Just make sure your timing belts are changed and you will never have bother

colm_mcm

I'd be looking at vag 1.9 TDIs too, or a Rover 75

ba_barabus

monsterdev wrote: »

Go for a Vag based motor. Skoda and seat for cheap luxury driving ! Just make sure your timing belts are changed and you will never have bother

I never had anything but bother with my 1.9 TDI 'VAG'

MuppetCheck

ba_barabus wrote: »

I never had anything but bother with my 1.9 TDI 'VAG'

But you'd kill anything to be fair:p

Also Seat and Skoda for luxury driving...lol...no they ain't. And I've covered over 200k in them.

I'd look at a petrol accord or mazda 6. Diesel VAG cars are always dear enough for a good one.

topcatcbr

batman88 wrote: »

Anyone recommend a decent car for motorway driving. Will be doing 400KM a week. Max tax would be 700 I would be looking for.

Was thing of Mondeo. What are these like reliability wise?

You would get a really nice petrol Mondeo for that money. I had one and liked it a lot. However it was very hard on fuel. Approx 30 mpg.

I now have a Skoda Octavia tdi. Nice car but not as comfy as the mondeo or nice to drive.

It depends on priority.

I am doing about 700k per week so the Octavia is a better choice ATM.

Tails142

In a similar situation to yourself op, I'm looking at mondeos, lancers, accords, passats, avensis...maybe a bmw 320

Very hard to separate them but I'm thinking a mondeo is the way to go. Trying to keep my eye out for a decent titanium spec one.

Bpmull

if I was buying a diesel car for 5k in the morning it would be a 1.9tdi vag. My parents octavia 05 new model has caused zero trouble and there is 200k km on it now. they have it 18 months. Flew through the nct passed first time. Im sure you'd easily get a new model octavia for under the 5k. Id possibly look at the 1.7cdti astra too.

alias no.9

http://tinyurl.com/q39hv6o

On your budget, I'd be all over this ^^^

JohnBoy26

Bpmull wrote: »

if I was buying a diesel car for 5k in the morning it would be a 1.9tdi vag. My parents octavia 05 new model has caused zero trouble and there is 200k km on it now. they have it 18 months. Flew through the nct passed first time. Im sure you'd easily get a new model octavia for under the 5k. Id possibly look at the 1.7cdti astra too.

+1 on the Octavia, brilliant cars in 1.9tdi form as far as reliability is concerned. imo the 1.7 cdti doesn't hold a candle to them.

batman88

Anyone have a link to the hairy vag?:pac: Not sure what car ye are on about. Thanks for the help so far:)

colm_mcm

Vag would be skoda/seat/vw/audi so you're talking Golf, Leon, Altea, Octavia. Toledo, Superb, A3, A4, Passat, Bora etc.

bazz26

VAG - Volkswagen Audi Group

bazz26

Might get this close to your budget:


http://www.driving.ie/used-cars/Honda/Civic/1.8I-SES/37313841928063360/

140bhp, good on fuel, roomy and very little goes wrong with them.

batman88

alias no.9 wrote: »

http://tinyurl.com/q39hv6o

On your budget, I'd be all over this ^^^

Tis a nice one!

colm_mcm

bazz26 wrote: »

Might get this close to your budget:


http://www.driving.ie/used-cars/Honda/Civic/1.8I-SES/37313841928063360/

140bhp, good on fuel, roomy and very little goes wrong with them.

I get 42mpg average on mine, which is decent for a 1.8 petrol driven not that slow.

batman88

What you guys think of this? Are Primeras any good? Probably battle him down to 3k

http://www.carzone.ie/search/Nissan/Primera/1.6-SX-4/36613746179380070/advert?channel=CARS

visual

batman88 wrote: »

What you guys think of this? Are Primeras any good? Probably battle him down to 3k

http://www.carzone.ie/search/Nissan/Primera/1.6-SX-4/36613746179380070/advert?channel=CARS

They aren't regarded as a good car
Ive very limited experience as only drove one for a week and it didn't inspire me in anyway to want one. Its for sale a long time and I guess seller would be delighted with 3k offer but I think there is better models out there like ford mondeo that could be bought for 3k

JohnBoy26

batman88 wrote: »

What you guys think of this? Are Primeras any good? Probably battle him down to 3k

http://www.carzone.ie/search/Nissan/Primera/1.6-SX-4/36613746179380070/advert?channel=CARS

No they are not very good cars at all. I'd be avoiding a primera tbh.

zweton

alias no.9 wrote: »

http://tinyurl.com/q39hv6o

On your budget, I'd be all over this ^^^

why so cheap!

seano12

Get something post 2008 for road tax purposes

Expect to pay 710 euro a year pre June 2008

JohnBoy26

seano12 wrote: »

Get something post 2008 for road tax purposes

Expect to pay 710 euro a year pre June 2008

You will pay thousands more for the privalage of saving a few hundred quid on tax though. For 5k I don't think you will get any decent 08+ car in a low tax bracket.

batman88

Dunno what to get, Mondeo Diseal seems the best value

Sobanek

Cant post links since Im on mobile but...

2004 BMW 520i
2005 Volvo S40 2.0D
2006 Ford Mondeo 2.0 TDCi
2005 Volkswagen Golf GTI

marzic

http://cars.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/mondeo/6141890

I've driven a few fords since 07 and I'd have to say i have found them all reliable. The diesels (07 focus 1.6 and 06 s-max 2.0) are lively and handle very well, and good on fuel. I've a 04 mondeo 1.8 petrol which is a nice cruiser but poor on gas and not great pick-up

Sobanek

marzic wrote: »

http://cars.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/mondeo/6141890

I've driven a few fords since 07 and I'd have to say i have found them all reliable. The diesels (07 focus 1.6 and 06 s-max 2.0) are lively and handle very well, and good on fuel. I've a 04 mondeo 1.8 petrol which is a nice cruiser but poor on gas and not great pick-up

I'd go for anything but the 1.6 PSA Diesel.

If the 1.6 HDI in my Sisters 308 HDI is anything to go by then best avoid it as it's rough and geared wrong. For instance, have to be in 3rd where you should be in 4th so it's under geared in 3rd and over geared in 4th and 5th isn't tall enough. I hate it.

I really don't like the PSA HDI, maybe the newer ones are smoother, maybe not. But my sisters is an 2008.

I don't like the power range either it's far too narrow a power band.

As always I highly recommend a prius, they are known to go for well over 300,000 miles with very little trouble, only 1 belt for the water pump in the MK II 2004-09. No belts in the MK III

My average is 60-64 mpg, it does drop a bit in winter. Not bad for a petrol automatic. Decent sized car.

5k should get you a MK II with about 90,000 odd miles.