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12th May 2019, 21:05 | #11 | |
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Well, many of mine were fit only for scrap long before that and odometers only went to 100K anyway A lot depends on the type of miles driven, cars these days do a lot more miles on motorways than they used to, steady speeds, no use of clutch and gears, not much suspension or steering movement.
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12th May 2019, 21:59 | #12 |
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Never considered a brand new car. (1) Could not afford one(2) don’t need to show the neighbours how rich(stupid) I am. (3) nearly always bought large cars at cut down prices to save my money. Why pay £20/30,000 cars when you can get one 3/4 years old for half price or less. Never made sense to me.Perhaps I have been lucky that I do not seem to have to much trouble with my purchases,fingers crossed. So far as I am concerned, I am driving my last car at the moment. Rover 75 Diesel Club.Will see me out, I hope.
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12th May 2019, 22:19 | #13 |
Posted a thing or two
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My 1986 Cavalier 1.6L was nearly twice round the clock (199,900 mile) when it was written off by a carelessly reversed pick-up in 1996. It had done most of those miles on winding, Cumbrian country roads. The insurance assessor was optimistic that it wouldn't be a write off until I pointed out that he needed to put a '1' in front of the recorded milage! I had bought that car as a 3 yearold, 87,000 mile ex-company car, and ran it on a shoe-string. Brilliant, reliable, economical and comfortable car. The first car I ever drove that had done 100,000 miles was a 1971 850cc Renault 4. The bodywork was rough, but it drove perfectly. And they never had an oil filter!
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12th May 2019, 22:33 | #14 |
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I bought my first ZT190 in 2007. It was a 2003 car with 56000 miles on the clock. That was 6k for a 3 1/2 year old car. A 62 plate is not far off 7 year old now isn't it?
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13th May 2019, 00:13 | #15 |
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I bought a 16 year old BMW 750iL for €2750. It cost well over €100,000 new I believe, and it's odometer said 160k km. Not too bad for a 5.4 litre 12 cylinder engine, I reckoned. Unfortunately, it transpired that the dealer had clocked the mileage, by some 60k or thereabouts. Should have taken him to court, but the car languished in Spain unused and unloved by my two daughters, who didn't like driving it as it was "too big". Granted, it guzzled fuel, but I did offer to subsidise them to use it...
Sad part is they sold it to the Spanish equivalent of webuyanycar for €400 The deep dish alloys alone were worth more than that! But what depreciation! From over €100,000 to €400 in 18 years. I only used it once each year for a week or two when on holiday in Spain, but I loved it! Such power and majesty...got two speeding tickets first day I collected it and drove it home So yes, there are some crazy good bargains around if you like big luxury cars and can afford to run them.
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13th May 2019, 06:05 | #16 | |
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What you say is very true about large cars. This S-Class keeps catching my eye when I look at a couple of Mercedes specialists stock list for a suitable CLS. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2007-57-r...wAAOSwi-dbv4aO |
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13th May 2019, 06:16 | #17 | |
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04 Rover 75 Contemporary SE - 53 Rover 75 Connoisseur -94 Mercedes W140 - 72 VW Beetle 1300 Join Date: Sep 2012
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Totally agree in 2008, I bought a 14 year old Mercedes W140 S Guard which cost a tad over 110k for 1k, and a slightly younger S600 which sold at around 80k for 1.5k, that’s eye watering depreciation. Mind you I double what I paid for the S600 when I sold it about 3 years ago lol. I gave up buying new cars around the beginning of the 00’s, after sitting one night and totting up how much I’d lost over a 8 year period. In 2003 I bought a 94 pajero with 8k miles on the clock from an on line Japanese car auction and imported it. Total cost was a shade over £3k, I owned it until 2012 when it was w/o by a numpty in a Saab apparently didn’t see me when he pulled out 😣. With the money I got back from the insurance I bought my Contemporary SE with 96k on clock, I’ve just clocked 152k now Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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13th May 2019, 14:00 | #18 |
I really should get out more.......
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That's because it is designed and built by people who actually know a thing or two about engineering, the average Toyota can breeze through 200k miles like a walk in the park park, just keep changing that oil, it will do another 200k before it starts to sweat.
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13th May 2019, 14:50 | #19 |
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All Trophy Blue ,ZT260#50 , ZT CDTI Auto, ZR105+ and 1.8T Firefrost spoiling the Set . Join Date: Nov 2006
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When I bought my ZT dizzle it was just over 20 months old @ £6k and had 46k on the clock so was pretty high miles for its age .
Its now on 156k and apart from one vibration niggle , still going strong !! C.
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13th May 2019, 15:24 | #20 |
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