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*********Motors Chat - Round 9 *********
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They'll get some shock when they need to come up with another deposit when they go to finance again. This is the bit that most people aren't grasping.
I don't particularly like the system. I think I'd go hp whenever I buy a new car sure far higher repayments but pay off the yoke after 3 years ta fcuk and move on this thing off carrying debt that most will never clear. I'd like a new car in early 2017 but it's very hard to get it too make sense financially I mean no matter what way you look at it a new car is expensive and will loose a decent amount of money in the first few years. But buying a 2-3 year old car is just not the same to me anyway.
Oh in other news I got short listed for a job I really want going to meet them in the next few weeks
I know I could get a higher salary with other companies but I would prefer this job can't be all about money and I'm young so all the salaries being offered seem like big money to me with no outgoings. 0 -
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Duke O Smiley wrote: »You would be surprised. My sister had a brand new Astra in college from my folks gratis but it was when things were much better.
Often do think I should have bought something nice and modern myself
I know of plenty of them stories would be class to get a brand new car for free. I suppose it wasn't that out of the ordinary during the boom I remember a main dealer genuinely complaining about selling to many cars in the fact he couldn't keep them in stock and demo stuff and cars in the showroom were being sold as quick as they were putting them in.
The good times
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So after some "enthusiastic" driving, I may or may not have glazed over the front pads a bit
fair whack of smoke and heavy smell. Seem to be okay now after regular driving, will take it handy for the next while and see what the craic is. 0 -
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My newest car has been 9 years old at the time of purchase. :P
A man with sense newest I've had was 8 at the time. It had no engine and all.
What a load of bollox that article... On top of college fees and other expenses how on earth will they afford this?
Unless mammy and daddy are paying for it....
Dream of a Merc or BMW? For a few months in college I drove an E39 and a C200.... My own cars. Not even 10% of that €5k budget to buy. Stick that up your smoke pipe :rolleyes:0 -
I know of plenty of them stories would be class to get a brand new car for free. I suppose it wasn't that out of the ordinary during the boom I remember a main dealer genuinely complaining about selling to many cars in the fact he couldn't keep them in stock and demo stuff and cars in the showroom were being sold as quick as they were putting them in.
The good times
I bought a car for 300 to see me through the first 3 years of college. Anyone telling someone to get a car loan out when starting college is a twit. Money better spent socialising and trying new things. Unless your a petrol head or whatever but that not what the article was on about! Even if they had the cash I'd be saying stick that in the bank for havin the craic and buy yourself an aul bangernomic. 0 -
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Even today, with a nice IT admin position where I would often go to different sites and conferences I drive a maggoty €295 car with an XUD under the bonnet. Broke a valve last Monday so swapped the engine for one I found in a skip. Seriously. The engine under the bonnet was in a skip
I would like to have a W211 E220CDI but I'd say the XUD is a lot quicker, a lot more fun and far cheaper to run, hard not to notice that 0 -
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fancy pigeon wrote: »Even today, with a nice IT admin position where I would often go to different sites and conferences I drive a maggoty €295 car with an XUD under the bonnet. Broke a valve last Monday so swapped the engine for one I found in a skip. Seriously. The engine under the bonnet was in a skip
I would like to have a W211 E220CDI but I'd say the XUD is a lot quicker, a lot more fun and far cheaper to run, hard not to notice that
Hahaha that's brilliant, I attend conferences etc and it is funny to park in the centre of the sea of silver a4's, 520d's and insignias.
I get some looks getting out of a now slammed e36 at them things
Or scraping over a ramp in front of them is always funny 0 -
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Ah classics, I had a mark 1 and a polo, both reliable as hell except for once I let oil go low I the mark 1 and going around the old red cow it stalled itself, some safety feature, I was crapping myself trying to get it off the junction pushing it during rush hr!!!!
My golf would do 103mph on the motorway everyday and it would never do 1 more
One day it did and when I switched it off it wouldn't start until we towed it
I am sure it had nothing to do with it but it was a funny coincidence.
It achieved 104mph that day 0 -
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My golf would do 103mph on the motorway everyday and it would never do 1 more
One day it did and when I switched it off it wouldn't start until we towed it
I am sure it had nothing to do with it but it was a funny coincidence.
It achieved 104mph that day
That sounds about right, it's like the car felt it was important to punish you for pushing your luck!!!
I'll never forget that morn on red cow so long as I live!!! Which didn't feel like much longer at the time!!0 -
I drove a 1985 Suzuki GP100 during college, and bloody glad of it I was. It was two-stroke, reliable as the day is long on a rebuild-a-year (the two-stroke service), ran on barman's farts and did 50mph flat-out to the goat's ear. Nowadays I could fill the yard with new cars but for some reason I have no more interest than the man in the moon. What am I going to replace the General and the cool little Xsara with without spending about €60,000 like some sort of lunatic?? 0
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I drove a 1985 Suzuki GP100 during college, and bloody glad of it I was. It was two-stroke, reliable as the day is long on a rebuild-a-year (the two-stroke service), ran on barman's farts and did 50mph flat-out to the goat's ear. Nowadays I could fill the yard with new cars but for some reason I have no more interest than the man in the moon. What am I going to replace the General and the cool little Xsara with without spending about €60,000 like some sort of lunatic??
These look great for half less than that... http://www.4starclassics.com/jaguar-xjs-v12-convertible-for-sale-2/ youve the weather for them down there too
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I drove a 1985 Suzuki GP100 during college, and bloody glad of it I was. It was two-stroke, reliable as the day is long on a rebuild-a-year (the two-stroke service), ran on barman's farts and did 50mph flat-out to the goat's ear. Nowadays I could fill the yard with new cars but for some reason I have no more interest than the man in the moon. What am I going to replace the General and the cool little Xsara with without spending about €60,000 like some sort of lunatic??
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Interslice wrote: »These look great for half less than that... http://www.4starclassics.com/jaguar-xjs-v12-convertible-for-sale-2/ youve the weather for them down there too
Ah yes, it's a proper XJS too - the 6l V12!0 -
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