I need a cheapie for a Ukrainian family

[egomeister]

Don't know how you are getting on with this eltax, but I was browsing for cars earlier and noticed this place has quite a few sub 3k autos available: https://www.autoglobe.co.uk/used-cars

No idea if they are a decent dealer or not, but thought it might be worth a look.

[eltax91]

Thanks so much!

Maryna’s license came back yesterday and we’ve been out for a drive in my wife’s car to help her acclimatise. From what I learnt today of her driving, I need to go as robust as possible, because in her efforts to remember to keep left she spent rather a while in the verge.

I’ve bookmarked a few aygo’s and jazz’s to keep an eye on, will put your link on my list! Thanks again

[egomeister]

eltax91 said:

Thanks so much!

Maryna’s license came back yesterday and we’ve been out for a drive in my wife’s car to help her acclimatise. From what I learnt today of her driving, I need to go as robust as possible, because in her efforts to remember to keep left she spent rather a while in the verge.

I’ve bookmarked a few aygo’s and jazz’s to keep an eye on, will put your link on my list! Thanks again

I'm sure she'll pick it up soon enough based in my experiences the other side of the channel. The hardest thing I found was making sure to look the right way on roundabouts, so I'd practice that one a bit! It soon becomes second nature though.

I guess she'll also have the added complication of learning to drive RHD, which probably doesn't help with the positioning.

[eltax91]

egomeister said:

eltax91 said:

Thanks so much!

Maryna’s license came back yesterday and we’ve been out for a drive in my wife’s car to help her acclimatise. From what I learnt today of her driving, I need to go as robust as possible, because in her efforts to remember to keep left she spent rather a while in the verge.

I’ve bookmarked a few aygo’s and jazz’s to keep an eye on, will put your link on my list! Thanks again

I'm sure she'll pick it up soon enough based in my experiences the other side of the channel. The hardest thing I found was making sure to look the right way on roundabouts, so I'd practice that one a bit! It soon becomes second nature though.

I guess she'll also have the added complication of learning to drive RHD, which probably doesn't help with the positioning.

We went to a quiet industrial area and drove around roundabout after roundabout. She naturally looked in the right direction etc. lane choice was erratic, signalling mostly ok. I think she was mainly concentrating on remembering to drive on the left.

We will practice a lot more over the coming weeks. Being RHD isn’t that much of an issue I don’t think with an autobox at least. Just road positioning will take some work

[egomeister]

eltax91 said:

We went to a quiet industrial area and drove around roundabout after roundabout. She naturally looked in the right direction etc. lane choice was erratic, signalling mostly ok. I think she was mainly concentrating on remembering to drive on the left.

We will practice a lot more over the coming weeks. Being RHD isn’t that much of an issue I don’t think with an autobox at least. Just road positioning will take some work

When I've hired abroad I always took a little while to get used to LHD, mainly because you are so conditioned to where you are relative to the lane. It's like when you are learning to drive and intuitively position yourself towards the centre of the lane rather than placing the car in the centre

Good luck with the search anyway, she'll be up and running in no time.