Uni Car (Sorry, it's a what car....)
Discussion
MSTRBKR said:
My my this is a mess.
Mk4 Fiesta 1.25 zetec. Reliable, cheap to buy, cheap to insure, cheap to fuel up. If that's too much money, a 106 diesel.
I'd second either of these, with the caveat that the Siesta needs to have been run with the right oil; wrong oil banjos them a bit quick.Mk4 Fiesta 1.25 zetec. Reliable, cheap to buy, cheap to insure, cheap to fuel up. If that's too much money, a 106 diesel.
HereBeMonsters said:
That's £150 EVERY month. If you can't use any of your family's cars, get yourself something respectable but cheap to run, like I said - a VAG 1.9 TDI. I'd go for the Fabia, but you may want to go for a Polo or an Ibiza or something for "image". Spend a grand, maybe £1500 on the car, and that £150 will do you for coke and hookers very nicely.
I'll second that, although I'm gonna chop a cylinder off and suggest this:VW Polo 6N2 1.4 Tdi
simoid said:
NiceCupOfTea said:
By the way, it's "University".
Seriously? Thanks, I thought he was looking for a car with one wheel or something. Now it all makes perfect sense! I had never ever seen 'University' shortened to 'Uni' before now. It must be one of these words that only youths use. How dare they shorten words to make them easier to say and/or type. It's (oops, sorry 'it is') shocking that the English language is being butchered in this way.
Edited because I had the audacity to abbreviate "I had" to "I'd".
Edited by simoid on Wednesday 23 February 01:28
By my reckoning it appeared in Neighbours in the late 80s - I never heard anybody abbreviate the word before then. Just because lots of people use it doesn't make it right or good English! Should we abbreviate every word over 2 syllables due to sheer laziness? Feel free to use it, it just makes you sound like you have a small IQ or are studying basket weaving and peace studies at South Staffordshire "Uni" (previously Cannock Community College) IMHO! Before you know it you'll be using "Arvo"
In an attempt to remain on topic: OP, unless you are s
tting money, save your cash, as said a grand will buy you a decent shopper that will get you around and be faultlessly reliable. I'm not that much of an old fart but I don't know why every student now needs a car! 20 years ago I knew 2 or 3 students with cars and they were 20 year old bangers!Papa Hotel said:
TheMoron said:
Um, OK I'll explain the situation a bit better then...3 days out of 5 I'll be working through my uni course, the wages of which I'll be putting towards paying for a car and my tuition fees.
TM
Oh, you'll have a temporary job, part-time too! Well, that's different then. The answer is still a grand on a Ka. You aren't here for advice though, you just want someone to tell you 150 quid on a Polo is the best way to go, you want validation on a choice you've already made. TM
Get the Polo then, it'll be super reliable being German and hold its value super well being a VW. Get a diesel. In silver.
A part-time job and a university course (and more to the point, its immediate aftermath where you'll be looking for more work and have very little cash) is quite possibly the worst set of conditions to be paying off the interest on a depreciating asset.
Spend as much of your savings as you can justify on something from Auto Trader's bargain-bin.
doogz said:
It's in the dictionary, what's the problem?
You're getting a bit carried away over nothing.
Is it? Fair enough I suppose.You're getting a bit carried away over nothing.
Maybe I do get carried away with it. It's an abbreviation I absolutely detest, perhaps irrationally. It's borne out of complete laziness and puts me in mind of tumbling standards and Blair's "everybody attends University" utopian dream. Not really the topic for the discussion though, sorry.
MSTRBKR, I think my abbreviations there were all typing ones which I think are acceptable in a forum format! All "sound" the same when read out - at least I expand them all in my head when I read a post, apart from "IQ" of course!
NiceCupOfTea said:
Is it? Fair enough I suppose.
Maybe I do get carried away with it. It's an abbreviation I absolutely detest, perhaps irrationally. It's borne out of complete laziness and puts me in mind of tumbling standards and Blair's "everybody attends University" utopian dream. Not really the topic for the discussion though, sorry.
MSTRBKR, I think my abbreviations there were all typing ones which I think are acceptable in a forum format! All "sound" the same when read out - at least I expand them all in my head when I read a post, apart from "IQ" of course!
I do understand your concerns as a couple of abbreviations annoy me too Maybe I do get carried away with it. It's an abbreviation I absolutely detest, perhaps irrationally. It's borne out of complete laziness and puts me in mind of tumbling standards and Blair's "everybody attends University" utopian dream. Not really the topic for the discussion though, sorry.
MSTRBKR, I think my abbreviations there were all typing ones which I think are acceptable in a forum format! All "sound" the same when read out - at least I expand them all in my head when I read a post, apart from "IQ" of course!
Still OT, but when you saw 'uni car' did you understand it to be a mode of transport for getting to a further educational establishment? If you did, then I'm afraid you are probably fighting a losing battle
OP, have some fun setting a purchase budget and running costs budget then have a look for the classifieds for <£1000 and the longest MOT and tax possible
simoid said:
I do understand your concerns as a couple of abbreviations annoy me too
Still OT, but when you saw 'uni car' did you understand it to be a mode of transport for getting to a further educational establishment? If you did, then I'm afraid you are probably fighting a losing battle
OP, have some fun setting a purchase budget and running costs budget then have a look for the classifieds for <£1000 and the longest MOT and tax possible
I'll be honest, when I read "Uni Car" it did take me a few seconds to work out what it meant! My first thought was some kind of motorised unicycle!Still OT, but when you saw 'uni car' did you understand it to be a mode of transport for getting to a further educational establishment? If you did, then I'm afraid you are probably fighting a losing battle
OP, have some fun setting a purchase budget and running costs budget then have a look for the classifieds for <£1000 and the longest MOT and tax possible
Be aware that you'll be parking a potentially expensive lump of metal in a carpark which is frequented by cars driven by teenagers, who will have only had minimal driving experience. Door dings and bumper scuffs will be features of your new car relatively quickly.
FWIW, I bought my 17 year old daughter a 2000my Yaris for her to biff around in for a year or two. It starts in the morning, has an MOT and the heater works. That's at least 30% better than my first car - if not more!
FWIW, I bought my 17 year old daughter a 2000my Yaris for her to biff around in for a year or two. It starts in the morning, has an MOT and the heater works. That's at least 30% better than my first car - if not more!
anonymous said:
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I had a T plate one with the "bug-eye" headlights for the first couple of years after I graduated. You could get a decent one for £700 now. Cost peanuts to run and nothing went wrong even when I abused it and slid off a road into a ditch...
(My fault, not the car's. Spent a tenner getting the tracking done and superglued the rubber headlight surrounds back in place. Paint wasn't even scratched!)
On the downside it has zero cool and steered more like a boat than a car. It wasn't at all fun, but I still miss the unpretentious workhorse.
EDIT: Fast forward 5 years and the money I didn't spend on the Toyota now gets spent on an Octavia vRS. Granted, it's no 911. But it's fun to have and I owe no finance on it.
Edited by blearyeyedboy on Wednesday 23 February 14:11
In the same position as you, OP, and I pick up a brand new Kia Picanto 1.0 1 on Wednesday. Not very PH I know but with a long warranty and stupidly low running costs.....
Fed up chucking money into repairs, fuel, tax, etc so I'm trading in my 2.0 16V Laguna which was a bit of a daft purchase at the time.
£75 a month on PCP over 3 years with a £1100 deposit. GFV is low enough that I stand to get most/all of this deposit back when I sell the car in 3 years.
Test drove a Twingo and a Panda too - Twingo was made of old plastic bags and the Panda's driver footwell was cramped.
Fed up chucking money into repairs, fuel, tax, etc so I'm trading in my 2.0 16V Laguna which was a bit of a daft purchase at the time.
£75 a month on PCP over 3 years with a £1100 deposit. GFV is low enough that I stand to get most/all of this deposit back when I sell the car in 3 years.
Test drove a Twingo and a Panda too - Twingo was made of old plastic bags and the Panda's driver footwell was cramped.
Papa Hotel said:
Kiltox said:
Test drove a Twingo and a Panda too - Panda's driver footwell was cramped.
Really? What size are your feet??Discounts on the Kia meant it was the only contender by the end anyway, but I liked the Panda too.
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