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Economical, reliable car sub €900

  • 04-06-2018 9:44pm
    #1
    j_mo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 239 ✭✭


    Hiya,

    Just wondering what options are available for a decent, reliable car for driving on West of Ireland roads and covering about 300 miles per week. Thanks.


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  • #2
    Cee-Jay-Cee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,235 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    With your budget and mileage I would stick to petrol and Japanese cars (Nissan, Honda, Toyota, Mazda, Mitsubishi, Suzuki, Subaru etc)

    Something like below would be ideal, very reliable, fairly basic (so less to go wrong) and plenty of room in them too.

    https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/mitsubishi-lanser-1-6-estate/18539731

    Nissan Almera would be another option, plenty of them to chose from within your budget and theyre good and reliable cars, if a little bland/boring.


  • #3
    Esel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,091 ✭✭✭✭Esel
    Not Your Ornery Onager


    Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »
    Nissan Almera would be another option, plenty of them to chose from within your budget and theyre good and reliable cars, if a little bland/boring.

    Almera and gearbox issues ring a bell? I've seen it mentioned a few times here.

    Not your ornery onager



  • #4
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,520 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    Esel wrote: »
    Almera and gearbox issues ring a bell? I've seen it mentioned a few times here.

    If the gearbox doesn’t get you, the timing chain will. Or you may just lose the will to live.


  • #5
    extra-ordinary_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,998 ✭✭✭extra-ordinary_


    Go for a PD 1.9 VAG engined car - lots available.


  • #6
    j_mo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 239 ✭✭j_mo


    extra-ordinary_ wrote:
    Go for a PD 1.9 VAG engined car - lots available.


    Sorry but I'm not very car-literate :) what type or make?


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  • #7
    j_mo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 239 ✭✭j_mo


    Cee-Jay-Cee wrote:
    With your budget and mileage I would stick to petrol and Japanese cars (Nissan, Honda, Toyota, Mazda, Mitsubishi, Suzuki, Subaru etc)

    Cee-Jay-Cee wrote:
    With your budget and mileage I would stick to petrol and Japanese cars (Nissan, Honda, Toyota, Mazda, Mitsubishi, Suzuki, Subaru etc)

    I was under the (wrong) impression that diesel would have been the way to go?


  • #8
    JohnBoy26
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,532 ✭✭✭JohnBoy26


    colm_mcm wrote: »
    If the gearbox doesn’t get you, the timing chain will. Or you may just lose the will to live.

    Dreadful yokes. For €900 euro i'd be aiming for a 2002-2007 corolla. Good earlier examples can be got with the op's budget.


  • #9
    JohnBoy26
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,532 ✭✭✭JohnBoy26


    j_mo wrote: »
    I was under the (wrong) impression that diesel would have been the way to go?

    You could certainly go diesel but at 43 miles per day it's not essential. At your budget a good petrol car will be much easier to find.


  • #10
    Kenny Logins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,060 ✭✭✭Kenny Logins


    https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/2003-audi-a4-avant-1-9-tdi/18974332

    If you can get insurance on a 15+ car...


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