Affordable used all-wheel-drive 4-door saloon?
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talksthetorque said:
For 2k?
Cheap running costs?
Remember we're looking for the moon on a stick.
If I would stipulate manual gearbox only, even new and budget unlimited we would have a problem with finding many RWD 4-door saloons with a manual transmission and not German. Or even many AWD Cheap running costs?
Remember we're looking for the moon on a stick.
So I am being a bit tolerant, because I hate automatic cars. But I know I can't have everything. So I'm fine with an automatic AWD.
J4x4K said:
I understand my choices are limited. At least I didn't ask for RWD. 
Really, your criteria point to an A6 3.0 TDI Quattro. Not expensive (sub-£6000 here), reliable, and not actually expensive to run. Sure, a major Service is about £200-250, but it'll only ask for that at 15000 mile intervals.I'm slightly biased as I own one, but here's my list of repairs from 5 years of ownership,
Inlet manifolds replaced - £300.
Wheel bearing - £200.
Engine mounts - £220.
Like it or not Audi\VW are probably the biggest sellers of the kind of car you are looking for, and you've ruled them out, which means the biggest pool of cars to choose from, the most available spares (new and used), the most garages that have actually seen one before, etc.
J4x4K said:
So I am being a bit tolerant.
No you're trolling on a weird almost non-existant criteria, based on ridiculous non issues.Here's a tip.
The car you want doesn't exist, so go and drop your £1500 on whatever takes your fancy on Ebay, it won't make much difference as it'll be pretty s
t anyway.shtu said:
Really, your criteria point to an A6 3.0 TDI Quattro. Not expensive (sub-£6000 here), reliable, and not actually expensive to run. Sure, a major Service is about £200-250, but it'll only ask for that at 15000 mile intervals.
I'm slightly biased as I own one, but here's my list of repairs from 5 years of ownership,
Inlet manifolds replaced - £300.
Wheel bearing - £200.
Engine mounts - £220.
Like it or not Audi\VW are probably the biggest sellers of the kind of car you are looking for, and you've ruled them out, which means the biggest pool of cars to choose from, the most available spares (new and used), the most garages that have actually seen one before, etc.
Which generation A6? £6000 is just over the edge of my budget. But if I really want the car I could pay that. But afraid not for a VW again. I'm slightly biased as I own one, but here's my list of repairs from 5 years of ownership,
Inlet manifolds replaced - £300.
Wheel bearing - £200.
Engine mounts - £220.
Like it or not Audi\VW are probably the biggest sellers of the kind of car you are looking for, and you've ruled them out, which means the biggest pool of cars to choose from, the most available spares (new and used), the most garages that have actually seen one before, etc.
The other thing is cars in the UK are much cheaper. A £6000 car there is a £8000-9000 car here.
Yes I know eliminating the VWs take out a huge portion of my options. This is why I started the thread. If I was going to go with the obvious choice I wouldn't need to ask for suggestions.
Like I said I had troubles with the Passat. Not looking forward to go through that again. The A6 is actually based on the Passat right? But Audi is more upscale so even worse in the cost. The problem is not that they require too much maintenance. They don't. But if anything major ever happens, forget it! Almost not worth it repairing it. So the problem is not servicing. It's repairs.
Repairs aren't that crazy, though. You don't need to take it to a main dealer and you can just buy pattern parts from someone like ECP or whoever is local rather than OEM.
With everything being equal, the ad hoc expenses on any of the cars mentioned in this thread are within a couple of hundred Euro per year. Yes, you could always get a duff one that needs money spending on it but the chances of that happening are pretty much equal with anything from Audi,VW, Ford, Honda, Subaru, Volvo, Saab etc
With everything being equal, the ad hoc expenses on any of the cars mentioned in this thread are within a couple of hundred Euro per year. Yes, you could always get a duff one that needs money spending on it but the chances of that happening are pretty much equal with anything from Audi,VW, Ford, Honda, Subaru, Volvo, Saab etc
Edited by schmalex on Friday 28th October 13:52
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