What would you buy? Family camping trip...

[Audis5b9]

Friends of mine are looking for a car to buy to spend 2 months travelling round UK, Ireland, France and Spain.

They are a family of four and will have quite a bit of luggage, including camping gear. (So thinking MPV/ Estate/ SUV)

Reliability and reasonable fuel consumption would be preferable.

Budget circa £750-£1000.

They will sell the car when they are done.

What would you get?

Thanks for your help!

[JamesRR]

A V70, or an E39 touring. Maybe a Saab 9-5, if a decent early one was in budget.

[seveb]

Volvo V70, Mondeo Estate, Vectra Estate.

[Croutons]

fking good AA cover.

[loskie]

maybe out of budget

https://www.gumtree.com/p/volvo/volvo-hearse-and-2...


Or a transit minibus or similar with some of the seats removed.

[smokeey]

Toyota Avensis estate.

[gti_dreamer]

Toyota and a previa if they can find one.

[Wombat3]

A comfortable car with good brakes and a decent sized trailer,

[Wombat3]

A comfortable car with good brakes and a decent sized trailer,

[PaulGT3]

At that price you can't be too fussy and guessing they would be doing about 10k miles in those two months so I'd probably look for a car thats been used well with evidence of plenty of maintenance. A 406 HDI estate would be my choice, something like this....https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/263819132504

[RedAndy]

Primera estate.

in 2.0 petrol flavour.

[Johnnybee]

Citroen Berlingo Multispace.

[rustyuk]

I'd be hiring something

[Audis5b9]

They ended up with a Zafira...

Judders quite a bit just at 60mph... wheel balancing or bearing maybe? Any thoughts?

[deeen]

Audis5b9 said:

They ended up with a Zafira...

Judders quite a bit just at 60mph... wheel balancing or bearing maybe? Any thoughts?

It's about the right speed, so yes start with wheel balancing, always try the cheapest fix first!

[ZX10R NIN]

Simple answer is to get a Mazda5:

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201...

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201...

Or a Zafira

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201...

Or Galaxy

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201...

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201...

Grand Cherokee

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201...

[creampuff]

ZX10R NIN said:

Grand Cherokee

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201...

I'd bzzzzt this particular Jeep as it has been converted to LPG. i.e. can't take it on Eurotunnel, ferries or park it in underground car parks.