Suggest automatics please?

Mars A7X

Hey there,

I am looking for my first car and have a budget around 10k.

Any suggestions for a automatic around 10 years old or newer that I should be looking for?

colm_mcm

How big/small a car do you need?

Shefwedfan

What sort of distance are you planning on?

Ubbquittious

BMW 1 series.

aFlabbyPanda

Something with a DSG maybe? audi a3/a4, skoda octavia, passat/golf?

Mars A7X

Shefwedfan wrote: »

What sort of distance are you planning on?

Around 20k km a year or so.

Mars A7X

colm_mcm wrote: »

How big/small a car do you need?

Small as it would be a first car and use to driving hatchbacks.

Heres Johnny

You'll get a newer than 10 year old car in automatic for 10k. The most expensive are Merc BMW and Audi and you could even go as far as a 2011 5 series, e class or a6 for 10k.

Smaller cars like you're looking for I'd say look in the 2014 bracket

I'd suggest an Audi a3 saloon or hatch, I think the saloon is a stunner. Or maybe a golf.

bazz26

Small automatic cars are still rare here and tend to command decent money. Most of them are either those terrible automated manuals like Toyota's multi mode or CVT. Due to their scarcity here there are also of used Japanese imports which can be hard or more expensive to insure.

Atlantic Dawn

Lexus CT200h

Shefwedfan

Mars A7X wrote: »

Around 20k km a year or so.

Not total, are you doing constant long distances or loads of short distances?

PukkaStukka

A few have recommended cars here with DSG gearboxes. Some of those were problematic. Did they ever get on top of the reliability?

User1998

PukkaStukka wrote: »

A few have recommended cars here with DSG gearboxes. Some of those were problematic. Did they ever get on top of the reliability?

I don’t think DSG was ever unreliable. It was just people who never done the essential gearbox oil change that gave them a bad rep. A lot of people didn’t even know it had oil.

Mars A7X

Shefwedfan wrote: »

Not total, are you doing constant long distances or loads of short distances?

Around 450km a week.

User1998

I think what he is asking is, does your 450km a week include like 4 or 5 100km motorway commutes, or is it more like 50 10km commutes around town.. Basically does your yearly mileage consist of several short journeys? Or a long motorway commute just a few times a week? Or a mixture of both

Shefwedfan

User1998 wrote: »

I think what he is asking is, does your 450km a week include like 4 or 5 100km motorway commutes, or is it more like 50 10km commutes around town.. Basically does your yearly mileage consist of several short journeys? Or a long motorway commute just a few times a week? Or a mixture of both

Exactly, then hybrid, diesel etc would be a better choice

No point buying a hybrid if you spend each day doing long motorway drives as diesel is best....if your unsure of car then pick the best fuel and then find the car.....

James Bond Junior

We had a 116d replaced by a 420d. Wife misses the 116d and would have it over the 4. My mother had a auto 116d too and upgraded to a new one this year, she is very happy with it. All autos.

In fact this is my mother's old car.

http://www.m6motors.ie/vehicles/bmw/1 series/galway/2394852

colm_mcm

http://www.m6motors.ie/vehicles/bmw/1series/galway/2394852

colm_mcm

How are these with the timing chain issue?

James Bond Junior

colm_mcm wrote: »

How are these with the timing chain issue?

We had two 1ers at the same time, a 131 X3, an 08 320d and a 2012 X1 all with 2.0l engines in the past decade and now the 4 and none gave any issues. All maintained by BMW according to their service schedules. The 320d is still around Limerick with close to 200k miles and is still on the original chain.

CoBo55

User1998 wrote: »

I don’t think DSG was ever unreliable. It was just people who never done the essential gearbox oil change that gave them a bad rep. A lot of people didn’t even know it had oil.

It's only the 6 speed that needed the oil change, the 7 speed uses dry clutches and a small amount of oil for the control unit and solenoids, they were recalled to change this oil to mineral oil as synthetic oil was used originally.