new motor wanted and brief history
Discussion
Hello
long time lurker, no time poster...
I like to think I'm into cars however haven't quite made it yet... way too many excuses to list but some include: too young - expensive insurance hence escort 1.6 finesse. Que compulsory induction kit and vibe sub, and we all thought 60 mph in 2nd meant it was fast... Then crashed it (apparently McCrae's skills are not within us all)
2nd car clio 1.8 16v loved this more than anything drove it 250 miles home checking the in dash oil pressure and temp guages every minute, mainly because they were there, it was fine, actually pretty quick, sounded good with a magnex system and i still like the bonnet and arches now.
Sadly bumped this too, spent £100's fixing subframe, box etc... got in too much trouble and had to buy a poo car to tide me over.
Pug 306 tdi legendary reliability, cheap bla bla bla. mine had 65k surely loads of miles in it and would run forever. it ran for a year then everything went wrong, clocked i suspect now.
Driving to an Oasis gig in Cardiff got to Sedgemoor services car dies. AA called. broken injector pipe. AA fixes it i give him a tip as was on a high about the gig and we set off. Reach the Seven bridge tolls after noticing a hazy rear window and a distinct lack of diesel which im purposely ignoring. I hopped away from the tolls in a bad way. it died on the next slip road only hours away from the start of Oasis...
luckily as I rang the AA again (wishing for my £10 tip back) one was driving past and picked us up. Drops us to a local garage not far from Cardiff and they quote me £80 for new pipes. This later costs me £180
Anyway months later a local specialist identifies a missing bolt on the fuel pump which causes all these problems, wish id known before.
Pug gone (never to have one again) Fabia VRS in
Excellent car. Turbo went replaced under warranty. Love Skoda forever.
Boring car alerts: Company cars / vans then came so no need for two vehicles so ive had all the normal things. VW, Ford (1.0 ecoboost fiesta was sweet though) skoda, toyota.
Now i can get out of the scheme have £6k allowance, do 8k a year and want a nice car.
must be under 2 years old, fast (real world) practical (2kids, mountain bike) and available now, must move quickly, no waiting for build slots etc.
Therefore VRS, ST, GTD/I/R, M, AMG would be good.
Thanks
Jako
long time lurker, no time poster...
I like to think I'm into cars however haven't quite made it yet... way too many excuses to list but some include: too young - expensive insurance hence escort 1.6 finesse. Que compulsory induction kit and vibe sub, and we all thought 60 mph in 2nd meant it was fast... Then crashed it (apparently McCrae's skills are not within us all)
2nd car clio 1.8 16v loved this more than anything drove it 250 miles home checking the in dash oil pressure and temp guages every minute, mainly because they were there, it was fine, actually pretty quick, sounded good with a magnex system and i still like the bonnet and arches now.
Sadly bumped this too, spent £100's fixing subframe, box etc... got in too much trouble and had to buy a poo car to tide me over.
Pug 306 tdi legendary reliability, cheap bla bla bla. mine had 65k surely loads of miles in it and would run forever. it ran for a year then everything went wrong, clocked i suspect now.
Driving to an Oasis gig in Cardiff got to Sedgemoor services car dies. AA called. broken injector pipe. AA fixes it i give him a tip as was on a high about the gig and we set off. Reach the Seven bridge tolls after noticing a hazy rear window and a distinct lack of diesel which im purposely ignoring. I hopped away from the tolls in a bad way. it died on the next slip road only hours away from the start of Oasis...
luckily as I rang the AA again (wishing for my £10 tip back) one was driving past and picked us up. Drops us to a local garage not far from Cardiff and they quote me £80 for new pipes. This later costs me £180
Anyway months later a local specialist identifies a missing bolt on the fuel pump which causes all these problems, wish id known before.
Pug gone (never to have one again) Fabia VRS in
Excellent car. Turbo went replaced under warranty. Love Skoda forever.
Boring car alerts: Company cars / vans then came so no need for two vehicles so ive had all the normal things. VW, Ford (1.0 ecoboost fiesta was sweet though) skoda, toyota.
Now i can get out of the scheme have £6k allowance, do 8k a year and want a nice car.
must be under 2 years old, fast (real world) practical (2kids, mountain bike) and available now, must move quickly, no waiting for build slots etc.
Therefore VRS, ST, GTD/I/R, M, AMG would be good.
Thanks
Jako
If that's a £6k allowance you can take as cash, bear in mind you will lose a lot of it to tax.
So it's more like £250-300 a month to fund your new toy.
There's always some crackers lease deals out there, which might fit your budget - see http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a... for the current thinking? Personally, I can't think of anything under two years old I'd buy with those restrictions, I'd be looking at what the company can turn the allowance into in terms of a company-paid lease?
So it's more like £250-300 a month to fund your new toy.
There's always some crackers lease deals out there, which might fit your budget - see http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a... for the current thinking? Personally, I can't think of anything under two years old I'd buy with those restrictions, I'd be looking at what the company can turn the allowance into in terms of a company-paid lease?
Bad choice of words. I was more thinking along the lines of amg styling / m sport as in a rival to a focus st or golf r. The letters amg seem to mean I need a top of the range merc, I don't..
I'm 30 if it matters. my work will give me £6k PA allowance. obviously I can dip into my own money.
I posted this in general, it got moved to car buying which I didn't realise existed, and I then rediscovered the leasing thread which would make more sense. I'll keep an eye on there. thought I'd add a bit of car history to make it more interesting in general but as it's been moved perhaps I should have just asked a boring 1st post
ericmcn said:
I dont know the OPs age but think he needs to get realistic.
Going from previous cars to ones called out is too steep, insurance for instance on an AMG i imagine would rocket as fast as the car itself.
Im pretty sure a octy vrs, golf gti / r or anything similar isn't going to turn me into a shivering wreck. Going from previous cars to ones called out is too steep, insurance for instance on an AMG i imagine would rocket as fast as the car itself.
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