Second hand cars - how much??!!

Loxley · 11 March

Six years ago I bought a Kia Ceed estate, ten years old at the time, for about £2.4k, and it's been a good reliable runner. The MOT advisories are starting to really stack up now and it's time to move on to a new car. Strewth... a similar ten year old car now, would cost more like £6k!

I'm split between a Ford Focus 1l turbo petrol estate, and a Peugeot 308 1.6 turbo diesel. Both seem to be in the £5-6k ball park for something with around 70k miles on the clock. Would love something like a Qashqai but the boot's a bit high for my increasingly elderly hound.

Alternatively I could spend a grand or so on my Kia and keep it going. Tempting to be honest, better the devil you know and all that.

JennyJ · 11 March

I don't know what the going rate is these days but I do know second-hand cars have gone up a lot, driven first by scarcity of parts for manufacturing new ones during the Covid pandemic, and then by inflation. In early 2016 I sold my then-10-year-old car to my sister for the part-exchange value (she got a bargain). In autumn 2022 she needed to change to an automatic and got almost as much in part-exchange against a slightly newer, automatic, higher trim spec. version of the same car.

steveTu · 11 March

Chip shortage meant new car manufacture was down, so second hand prices went up through the roof. They have started to come down a bit, but they're still barkingly high

barry island · 11 March

It would depend on the mileage of the car and the advisories, I had a Vauxhall Meriva which suited us just fine we bought it nearly new and had it for twelve years, over that time I thought about chopping it in several times especially when car dealers had special offers on for instance when Vauxhall were selling new Merivas for seven grand but always said that I would keep it while it wasn't giving me any trouble and that if it ever let me down I would get rid of it, four or five years ago it went straight through it's MOT but two weeks later broke down and wouldn't start, it went into the garage who after some time found that it had burned through some wires and would cost £500 to repair. I decided that it was time to get another car and bought a nearly new Renault Captur, as my wife had just had a knee replacement and the covid restrictions we didn't use the car much for the first 12 months so didn't put many miles on the clock so when it broke down with only 2000 miles on the clock and not getting any reassurance from the main agent that it wouldn't happen again I decided to trade it in with another garage and now own a Vauxhall Mokka, buying the two cars must have cost me around £20,000 and I have had to have a new water pump on the Mokka even though it has only 10,000 miles on the clock. Checking my old Meriva on the DVLA website I found that it is still on the road and realise that if I had spent the £500 it would have saved me money. You just don't know what to do for the best at the time though do you. I believe that even if you spend your cash on a brand new car you can always end up with a pup so hanging on to an old friend may be the best option especially if like me you do very little mileage each year and don't need it for work.

madpenguin · 11 March

If £1,000 could be spent on the Kia why not just do that?

madpenguin · 11 March

If £1,000 could be spent on the Kia why not just do that?

Dovefromabove · 11 March

Four years ago I bought an Alfa Romeo MiTo Veloce for £2,400. It’s been to Devon and Cornwall and back several times, back and forth visiting MIL in Lincs, and to Broomfield Burns Unit near Chelmsford every other day for what seemed like months on end; it’s been through floods and up hill and down dale whizzing back and forth to the Suffolk and Norfolk coast for outings as well as on innumerable shopping trips … when it was rear ended and written off last month the insurance company paid me the purchase price less £400. 😃

Of course, it’s replacement will have maintained its value too 🙄

Perki · 11 March

That sounds very un Alfa Romeo like Dove sounds like a imposter

did it not have a Toyota badge under the bonnet .

Second hand vehicles are frightening now along with the ever increasing insurance cost, then the insurance company will try and do stuff you when something goes wrong.

B3 · 11 March

We are really happy with our jazz. Recommended by Which. But,more importantly, by forum members.

Kili · 11 March

B3 said:

We are really happy with our jazz. Recommended by Which. But,more importantly, by forum members.

@B3
You wont find a more reliable car than a Honda Jazz. Don't know about the new hybrid Jazz but I've done seventy thousand miles in our 2009 model and having the fold flat/up seats I get two wheelchairs in it easily (An electric and manual chairs)
I've serviced it for all of those seventy thousand miles with one exception when I was just to busy with work so let the garage do it but after getting the bill I said no more and just carried on servicing. The only pain in servicing is the spark plugs are at the back of the engine and means you have to take the wiper blade motor out to get at them, Fortunately there seventy thousand mile iridium plugs so I'm gonna leave them to see if they can go a bit further.

I'm hoping Honda will make a full electric version that would put an end to any expensive servicing bills.

Waterbut · 11 March

I agree with B3 go fir a Honda.

Second hand cars - how much??!!

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