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Author Whats a good, cheap, bullet-proof 2nd car to have as a runabout?
Matt H
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4th Feb 08 at 19:43   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Like under £750 type cheapness. A proper car

Ones that spring to mind for me are

Citreon AX diesel - cheap & good mpg
Hyundai accent - quite relible but quite horrible
Corsa (8v of some sort or diesel) - hardly pleasant, but does the job
Old Golf maybe or an Ibiza? - probably a diesel, but what are older vag diesels like?

Enlighten me with some 10 bob motors
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306 altho a bit of a pig for faults
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just sold my fiesta for £100

but i'd go for a 1.2 8v corsa
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Corsa. Familiar, reliable, don't look horrendous. Cant really go wrong.
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1.2 8v corsa is too slow for daily driving really, dangerously slow imo
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Or a push bike?
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how many miles a day you gonna do?
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Get a Mk2 polo or Mk2 golf. Providing it has MoT i'd like to see you break it...

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+ I got a 1.6 Corsa Sport for £700 which was an absoloute diamond to me.

I also had a 1.0 Citroen AX which was hideously slow but was also ace.

Wilson wins though... He had a Mk2 Polo. Drank petrol like it was going out of fashion, but was pretty bombproof - Until a slight mishap on a Sunday Morning...

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renault 5 1.4
Matt H
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Not many miles, like 10 a day but in a bit of traffic

You can get a sport cheaper than an sxi, harder to insure for young people. Polo sounds good, or like I said the Ibiza is similar but cheaper
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mk3 astra/estate
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corsa 8v if 1.2 is too slow get an sri can get a fair one for about £400

Drives supercharged Tec with torque
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How much are Mk4 polos? Could get a Denzil model of that cheapish?

For that sort of mileage i'd look at a petrol nail though and be more worried about how much MoT it's got...

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can you not just get a bike and ride?
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One of the old mechanical 306 1.9D or DT. There's pretty much fuck all to go wrong, and I've had mine well over 4 years now and it's never broken down or gone wrong.
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Rover 25 turbo diesel.
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Mk4 is closer to £1750 than 750

Petrol one would be fine, don't really mind

Need a car for other things too, so having a bike is out of the question
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VW engined Skoda Felica?
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Whats wrong with using the Astra? 10 miles a days nothing does it really warrant buying another car + another ins/tax/mot/maintenance/repairs/?
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quote:
Originally posted by Colin
Whats wrong with using the Astra? 10 miles a days nothing does it really warrant buying another car + another ins/tax/mot/maintenance/repairs/?


I've got money tied up in a car that I hardly use, which means I don't have a lot to spend on getting my other car back onto the road. Somehow my runabout has become my main car whilst the project collects dust. I miss having my toy.

I like the coupe, really nice car, but it's too much for what I need. Petrol consumption isn't great as Im in traffic a fair bit & it just seems to guzzle fuel. 290 miles out of over £55 of fuel, I used to get twice that out of the Corsa (often more) On the motorway it's great, but I don't go on the motorways other than once a week for hockey training.
With a bit of swapping about I could have a cheap daily car & a toy to play in rather than a nice daily car that doesn't really double up as a fun weekend car.
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Cinquecento
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205td
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Your cinq is a proper weapon
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Cavalier 1.7TD.

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