Farmers car

yellow50HX

Folks looking at changing the car but need to get one suitable for my uses. It needs to able to take me to work as well as carry stuff around for the farm and do some towing too. Jeep or crew cab not really suitable as I don't do enough towing and it would be hard to justify the high fuel use.

Have had a VW caddy for the last few years and it's been great for what I use it for. Not great for towing but I only use a trailer on maybe once or twice a month and at that only with light loads. It's my main mode of transport as I also use it for going to work. OH has a car so we use that for going anywhere or where we need to bring other people.

I have had a few vans now but think it is time go go back to having a car for being able to take passengers as if I do I have to take her car or the parents. Thinking of getting an estate as I want something with plenty of room. I was thinking of getting something like a Rav4 but was suprised by how small the boot is. Also was driving my sister Cmax and though it was great but they have lip on the boot which a pain when trying to lifting things in and out. I used to have a x-trail which was great to drive but I wasn't too happy with the fly by wire trottle and I was very dissapointed with the mpg. Loads of room in it even if the back seats are up but I'm not going to fork out for tax over 2L.

Not a big fan of some of the makes around so going to stick to either ford toyota or VW. So I have been looking at focus mondeo passat and aventis estates. They seem to have plenty of room and comfort. One of my friends was over during Christmas and he has a galaxy and it's huge inside. So might look at one of those.

What do most people have or want to have?

blue5000

Santa fe might be an option? Avensis and land cruiser here.

Timmaay

Subaru forester.

yellow50HX

blue5000 wrote: »

Santa fe might be an option? Avensis and land cruiser here.

Yeah have used my uncles one a couple of times and grand for pottering around but I was very dissapointed with the power. Not sure I want an old one.

yellow50HX

Timmaay wrote: »

Subaru forester.

Yeah like them but the diesel version is high on the tax 2.2 I think.

Milked out

Had a passat here till it stopped at 250k miles good engine and mpg would an estate one suit? Old ai man had an octavia got it raised a bit and said it was a good job too

agriman27

Suzuki vitara see a few lads driving them

f140

hard to beat the Passat as the farmers car id say. depending what year your getting, get the highest hp 1.9tdi for that year. they would pull anything

ganmo

f140 wrote: »

hard to beat the Passat as the farmers car id say. depending what year your getting, get the highest hp 1.9tdi for that year. they would pull anything

ya that engine is a cracker! we've a 04 bora here with it

Mad4simmental

Iv a passat that gets put across fields, filled with meal, drags trailers and blocks gaps ha she's a real work horse that's very reliable and good on fuel. Hard to beat Vw if you want a car to substitute a jeep.

On the Santa Fe they **** engines after 100,000k and you'll find it hard to get a seckond hand one for less than €2000 in Ireland. Lovely looking jeep and nice to drive but a pile of scrap after that.

Tyson Lannister

Mad4simmental wrote: »

Iv a passat that gets put across fields, filled with meal, drags trailers and blocks gaps ha she's a real work horse that's very reliable and good on fuel. Hard to beat Vw if you want a car to substitute a jeep.

On the Santa Fe they **** engines after 100,000k and you'll find it hard to get a seckond hand one for less than €2000 in Ireland. Lovely looking jeep and nice to drive but a pile of scrap after that.

Funny how people have different views. A neighbour of mine scraps jeeps for a living and reckons the santa fe are the most trouble free jeep around and go forever

Mad4simmental

Tyson Lannister wrote: »

Funny how people have different views. A neighbour of mine scraps jeeps for a living and reckons the santa fe are the most trouble free jeep around and go forever

True. I youst to work for Hyundai and seen all the horrer story's but your right the next man might have grate luck with one.

Justjens

Timmaay wrote: »

Subaru forester.

yellow50HX wrote: »

Yeah like them but the diesel version is high on the tax 2.2 I think.

OP said something good on fuel, Forrester is addicted to the stuff. So too are any Hyunday, unless you are buying new.

Go German, with that 1.9tdi which will go forever and is economical.

trixi2011

One thing with the vw is the low alloy sump on my 2nd this year doesn't take much to burst them . Anyone else come across this problem ? Other than that great car

Mad4simmental

trixi2011 wrote: »

One thing with the vw is the low alloy sump on my 2nd this year doesn't take much to burst them . Anyone else come across this problem ? Other than that great car

Same here. Got a lad to weld checker plate on the new sump and she's took a belt or two so far torch wood she states like that.

Conor556

ganmo wrote: »

ya that engine is a cracker! we've a 04 bora here with it

04 toledo here with 1.9tdi engine aswell, never failed to pull anything and often use it for fencing and things, really happy with it, only problem is its lowered.
Cant blame the car for that tho!

rushvalley

trixi2011 wrote: »

One thing with the vw is the low alloy sump on my 2nd this year doesn't take much to burst them . Anyone else come across this problem ? Other than that great car

you can buy steel sump gaurds that you bolt on.

ganmo

Conor556 wrote: »

04 toledo here with 1.9tdi engine aswell, never failed to pull anything and often use it for fencing and things, really happy with it, only problem is its lowered.
Cant blame the car for that tho!

All de bags of meal in the boot

rangler1

yellow50HX wrote: »

Folks looking at changing the car but need to get one suitable for my uses. It needs to able to take me to work as well as carry stuff around for the farm and do some towing too. Jeep or crew cab not really suitable as I don't do enough towing and it would be hard to justify the high fuel use.

Have had a VW caddy for the last few years and it's been great for what I use it for. Not great for towing but I only use a trailer on maybe once or twice a month and at that only with light loads. It's my main mode of transport as I also use it for going to work. OH has a car so we use that for going anywhere or where we need to bring other people.

I have had a few vans now but think it is time go go back to having a car for being able to take passengers as if I do I have to take her car or the parents. Thinking of getting an estate as I want something with plenty of room. I was thinking of getting something like a Rav4 but was suprised by how small the boot is. Also was driving my sister Cmax and though it was great but they have lip on the boot which a pain when trying to lifting things in and out. I used to have a x-trail which was great to drive but I wasn't too happy with the fly by wire trottle and I was very dissapointed with the mpg. Loads of room in it even if the back seats are up but I'm not going to fork out for tax over 2L.

Not a big fan of some of the makes around so going to stick to either ford toyota or VW. So I have been looking at focus mondeo passat and aventis estates. They seem to have plenty of room and comfort. One of my friends was over during Christmas and he has a galaxy and it's huge inside. So might look at one of those.

What do most people have or want to have?

Bought a new Rav4 lately, really nice car, it's a Toyota so if it's as good as all the Toyotas, I won't complain, fuel consumption showing 6.5l/100km, so mightn't suit if you did a lot of driving, huge legroom in the back. I changed rom Peugeot 407 that was doing 55- 60 mpg so I notice the difference already. I get a fair bit of back trouble, the higher car and firmer seats is a gift now

yellow50HX

agriman27 wrote: »

Suzuki vitara see a few lads driving them

The older ones are great and I have looked at them but same as the rav4 boot is kinda small unless you get the grand and they like like hens teeth. The newer ones are not as good as the 4wd and low range is electric.

yellow50HX

Justjens wrote: »

OP said something good on fuel, Forrester is addicted to the stuff. So too are any Hyunday, unless you are buying new.

Go German, with that 1.9tdi which will go forever and is economical.

Yeah big fan of those VW tdi engines so that was why I thinking of the galaxy, would be looking for the 115 or 130 hp ones as the 90hp would be just a waste of time car too heavy for it.

yellow50HX

rangler1 wrote: »

Bought a new Rav4 lately, really nice car, it's a Toyota so if it's as good as all the Toyotas, I won't complain, fuel consumption showing 6.5l/100km, so mightn't suit if you did a lot of driving, huge legroom in the back. I changed rom Peugeot 407 that was doing 55- 60 mpg so I notice the difference already. I get a fair bit of back trouble, the higher car and firmer seats is a gift now

Had a couple of toyotas before getting vans and hard yo best them. Ol lad had 3 carainas that all clocked over the 200k mark and an aventis that hit 270k. The ones I have been looking are out of my budget or very high mileage or imports.

Farmer Pudsey

Avensis diesel. You will pickup pre 2007 up handy enough. Yes road tax is 700/year but they do 50/gallon on diesel are easy to maintain. There are a few station wagons hanging around as well.
http://cars.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/avensis-2003-d4d/8475309?offset=9

yellow50HX

Farmer Pudsey wrote: »

Avensis diesel. You will pickup pre 2007 up handy enough. Yes road tax is 700/year but they do 50/gallon on diesel are easy to maintain. There are a few station wagons hanging around as well.
http://cars.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/avensis-2003-d4d/8475309?offset=9

Yeah something like that is what I'm thinking too

Don't know where that thumbs down came from!

Fuxake

Hillman Hunter. Ultimate farmers car

whelan2

yellow50HX wrote: »

Had a couple of toyotas before getting vans and hard yo best them. Ol lad had 3 carainas that all clocked over the 200k mark and an aventis that hit 270k. The ones I have been looking are out of my budget or very high mileage or imports.

have a 96 corolla , automatic 120000 miles on it . bought it for 500 nearly 2 years ago, never a bother on it, great car

Farmer Pudsey

yellow50HX wrote: »

Yeah something like that is what I'm thinking too

Don't know where that thumbs down came from!

I think that car wuld be bough for a nice bit less than that mid teens should get a car of that age with that mileage. If you got 2-3 years out of it it would be ok.

C0N0R

trixi2011 wrote: »

One thing with the vw is the low alloy sump on my 2nd this year doesn't take much to burst them . Anyone else come across this problem ? Other than that great car

You must be a hard man on cars trix!! I've had a Leon a Passat and now a Golf and never bust the sump on any of them and I wouldn't be the kindest man on a car!

dh1985

C0N0R wrote: »

You must be a hard man on cars trix!! I've had a Leon a Passat and now a Golf and never bust the sump on any of them and I wouldn't be the kindest man on a car!

No its a common occurence among any of the VAG cars. The sump is low on them all

trixi2011

C0N0R wrote: »

You must be a hard man on cars trix!! I've had a Leon a Passat and now a Golf and never bust the sump on any of them and I wouldn't be the kindest man on a car!

Doesn't take much at all there as soft as ****e, lucky enough there cheap enough these days .

Conor556

C0N0R wrote: »

You must be a hard man on cars trix!! I've had a Leon a Passat and now a Golf and never bust the sump on any of them and I wouldn't be the kindest man on a car!

Friend of mine bust 2 sumps in 3 days in a leon, put in 4 or 5 altogether in the time he had it! Never used clutch either, cringe worthy stuff being in the car with him!

Reggie.

C0N0R wrote: »

You must be a hard man on cars trix!! I've had a Leon a Passat and now a Golf and never bust the sump on any of them and I wouldn't be the kindest man on a car!

Oh it's very easily done. Seen it many a time

Farmer Pudsey

C0N0R wrote: »

You must be a hard man on cars trix!! I've had a Leon a Passat and now a Golf and never bust the sump on any of them and I wouldn't be the kindest man on a car!

Young lad has a diesel IbizaI ans same thing happened. Sump is light aluminium was amazed when motor factors had it in stock and could not get it second hand off a car dismantler. Had to replace engine as it was siezed. He went into a pot hole.

simx

Farmer Pudsey wrote: »

Young lad has a diesel IbizaI ans same thing happened. Sump is light aluminium was amazed when motor factors had it in stock and could not get it second hand off a car dismantler. Had to replace engine as it was siezed. He went into a pot hole.

Must be 99 up is it? Tdi? Have an older shape tdi one here, same engine as a mk3 golf absolutely bulletproof and a steel sump

Farmer Pudsey

simx wrote: »

Must be 99 up is it? Tdi? Have an older shape tdi one here, same engine as a mk3 golf absolutely bulletproof and a steel sump

2005

simx

Farmer Pudsey wrote: »

2005

Is that a 1.4?

Farmer Pudsey

simx wrote: »

Is that a 1.4?

1.9 I think it is an ASY engine. Good engine except for sump issue.

simx

Farmer Pudsey wrote: »

1.9 I think it is an ASY engine. Good engine except for sump issue.

Yeah any tdi engine from around 98/99 up generally have the aluminium sump

grazeaway

Got ourselves a corolla diesel last year as the family car but I was thinking of getting something a bit bigger for myself like an estate too for having the dogs in and for getting stuff like meal bags or fencing or just taking stuff around. Using the car trailer can be a bit of a pain for getting smallish stuff.

meathstevie

Octavia Scout maybe, every bit as capable as Audi AWD and Subaru Forrester. Hens teeth in Ireland but if you don't mind a flight and a ferry crossing I reckon they can be got handy enough in the UK.

bogman_bass

The problem with Passats is that lads dont buy them to sit in the drive. They tend to have pretty high miles on them.

Octavia is the same car with a different badge and a lower price tag

Milked out

meathstevie wrote: »

Octavia Scout maybe, every bit as capable as Audi AWD and Subaru Forrester. Hens teeth in Ireland but if you don't mind a flight and a ferry crossing I reckon they can be got handy enough in the UK.

Vet has one, replaced a landcruiser when kids arrived

Suckler

Toyota Carina E - lean burn engine - maroon or dark grey colour. Steel wheels with 2 or 3 wheel covers missing. Non colour coded bumpers. I don't think you could qualify for any grants unless you had owned this car.

Muckit

Or pulled a cowbox with straw sticking out from under the back door, no mudguards and the bottom 3" eaten out the sides from sucky calves piss!!

You also at some stage must have ......

wore wellies that a 2 sizes too big for you. Slipped your feet into dunnes stores plastic bags before donning them.

Substituted baling twine for a belt.

Fingers like teeth of a pin harrow.

Smelt of silage. Cow sh*te ......or if you're rich, stale milk/parlour washings.

Muckit

If your a real bone fide farmer cream suede lace boots or the tan slipon 'dealer' boots with elastic on the side can be worn 'for good wear.' Ie funerals, sunday mass, GAA games, ag shows.

A bodywarmer is not only very comfy, but as with the aforementioned footwear, highly fashionable.

Nekarsulm

No need to deprive yourselves any longer......

http://cars.donedeal.ie/vintagecars-for-sale/1987-toyota-carina-2-diesel/8521827?offset=6



Ball hitch, and 328,000 miles.
Take your Santa Fe, and your X5, and stick them up your aras...:D

yellow50HX

Nekarsulm wrote: »

No need to deprive yourselves any longer......

http://cars.donedeal.ie/vintagecars-for-sale/1987-toyota-carina-2-diesel/8521827?offset=6

Parents had one for years, loved that car

Reggie.

yellow50HX wrote: »

Parents had one for years, loved that car

Well now you can have another one

whelan2

Reggie. wrote: »

Well now you can have another one

would it be worth 1000? my corolla is 1996 with 120000 miles on it, what would that be worth?

Reggie.

whelan2 wrote: »

would it be worth 1000? my corolla is 1996 with 120000 miles on it, what would that be worth?

To you priceless

If someone wants it bad enough who knows

trg

How about Ford Kuga? Seem to be a bigger more robust version of the Toyota Rav