I loved my Civic, and often thought about getting a Jazz. Not ideal for a large dog though.
It was the MOT guy who suggested it was time to part with the Kia. It does have 160k on it. The engine is okay I think. It had to have a bunch of things at the last MOT and there are advisories to do with the steering rack and suspension.
"What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour".
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.
If its not too big Ford Mondeo's are offering great value in the second hand market at the moment.
We own and run a MOT testing station and garage doing car repairs etc and we have always sold second hand cars … until the pandemic. For the reasons everyone else has mentioned the price of second hand cars went through the roof and it was really difficult to source good, value for money cars. We decided to stop selling them as we didn’t know if the market would drop down again and we may be left with over priced stock. The market hasn’t dropped that much but we’ve decided not to sell cars anymore as we’re so busy with everything else. My husband, who has been in the trade for over 30 years would always recommend a Honda Jazz or anything with a Honda or Toyota badge. He says we wouldn’t make any money if all our customers drove a Honda Jazz as they’re so reliable!
I had a 2004 diesel civic that we bought second hand in 2008 for about £4k (at 58k miles) - brilliant car. Honda - reliable, economical. I only changed it as it had rust around the hatch back hinges that would have cost me £400 to investigate (without any guarantee that it could be fixed) - plus , because of ULEZ zones springing up, I wanted something that was 'cleaner' so went petrol. I would have gone Honda again, but they were above my financial limits. I didn't want a big car as it's normally just me - but I needed something that could take 4 adults comfortably.
Why have cars all gone small engine as well - 3 cylinder 1.1s and 1.2s seem to be the vogue. I know emissions are a big thing (rightly), but what is the trade off with economy and engine life?
Why have cars all gone small engine as well - 3 cylinder 1.1s and 1.2s seem to be the vogue. I know emissions are a big thing (rightly), but what is the trade off with economy and engine life?
A lot are mild hybrid now so the engines get electric assistance. OH's Ford Puma is a 1lt pushing out 123bhp which is pretty respectable considering her previous car, a Hyundai i10, had the same size engine but only 66bhp and half the torque. They're also more efficient which is a massive selling point to anyone but the wealthy these days.
I had assumed that my 22 year old one owner low mileage Toyota Yaris would be next to worthless but my mechanic mate tells me he could get £1500 for it no problem. Mind you I pay him to service it so he may be biased about me keeping it. Like the Honda Jazz it is very reliable and cheap to run. I did consider the Jazz when I bought the Yaris but I thought you had to be over 70 to buy one as I never saw anybody younger than that driving one.
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.
Don't go anywhere near a car with Fords Ecoboost 3cyl 1.0L in it, it's a ticking timebomb. They were a very good idea and great engines when new, but a bad idea as a secondhand buy.
We have a 16 year old Opel Zafira. She's had a couple of bits of bodywork done cos OH is hopeless at parking in reverse. 4 years ago I drove her to Belgium to help Possum move apartments and her Turbo blew. No choice but to fix it as we had to come home again with a carload and a Zafira has huge capacity. That cost 2000€. We have her serviced regularly and, apart from tyres, there have been no problems despite a huge mileage. We like to stick with cars we know.
Now Possum is looking to buy herself a 2nd hand car and I'm steering her away form Citroen, Peugeot and Renault which are, strangely enough, the most common cars here.
I've just had a look and Honda's are not only few and far between but way out of her price ranges, strating form 19,000€!
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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I'm erring towards a Honda Civic Tourer 1.6D (I had no idea there was an estate version!) - or fixing up the Kia and keeping it going. The Civic I've seen has FSH and the past MOTs look very clean. (It's worth using the government "check MOT" as you can see all the advisories and fail notices a car has had in the past).
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It was the MOT guy who suggested it was time to part with the Kia. It does have 160k on it. The engine is okay I think. It had to have a bunch of things at the last MOT and there are advisories to do with the steering rack and suspension.
My husband, who has been in the trade for over 30 years would always recommend a Honda Jazz or anything with a Honda or Toyota badge. He says we wouldn’t make any money if all our customers drove a Honda Jazz as they’re so reliable!
Like the Honda Jazz it is very reliable and cheap to run. I did consider the Jazz when I bought the Yaris but I thought you had to be over 70 to buy one as I never saw anybody younger than that driving one.
Don't go anywhere near a car with Fords Ecoboost 3cyl 1.0L in it, it's a ticking timebomb.
They were a very good idea and great engines when new, but a bad idea as a secondhand buy.
Now Possum is looking to buy herself a 2nd hand car and I'm steering her away form Citroen, Peugeot and Renault which are, strangely enough, the most common cars here.
I've just had a look and Honda's are not only few and far between but way out of her price ranges, strating form 19,000€!