Help Chitting Kaz find a Car Please

At face value it seems ok. Long MOT on it but that means absolutely nothing seeing as its a trade seller (they just get their mates at the local garage to pass it).

Renault is not a bad make. They have ties with Volvo these days, though I'm not sure how closely connected they are.

In any case, 127k miles isn't overly excessive. It wouldn't put me off as long as its been looked after. For that price I'd expect to see some sort of service history just as some level of assurance that its been looked after.

Its pre-2001 so shouldn't have much trouble with random electronic problems making the engine go silly (I don't like post 2001 cars, I think that was the year that the EU emissions rules changed meaning that cars rolled off the production line with HAL's crazy nephew running them).

Being only 1.4 though it is going to be a tad boring to drive. I reckon you're looking at 90bhp, and a gearbox that has the engine howling at motorway speed, but for general knocking about it would be fine I reckon.

 

or this one
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2000-CITR...tomobiles_UK&hash=item337b7db975#ht_903wt_932 which is in my home town
really appreciate your input here clueless

 

Kaz do you not already drive a Skoda ?
Then you know how good they are
If you need a bigger car then FC Octavia Estate, or the YETI
Good priced used ones on the skoda site or dealerships

Jack McH

 

Better on paper, but its citroen. Expect it to be expensive to fix when it goes wrong, which may well be quite often compared to other makes. Peugeot is the same (literally, same ownership, same factories). Renault is different altogether.

The citroen will be more fun to drive while its working, as they tend to be good at squeezing respectable performance out of their engines. Gear box is likely to be clunky and horrid though. Again, pre-2001 so likely to be immune to the notorious engine management problems.

I wouldn't buy that one just because its citroen, and I have negative experience of citroen myself, and have known several people with negative experience of a range of peugeot/citroen motors. I know a few people in the motor trade who colloquially know citroen by another name.

 

That's what I thought, and what my dad thought. I have no doubt you're right, but cutting the fuel pipe cut the engine in this case. I can only guess (this is way over my head) that in this case the engine was still drawing most of its energy from the actual fuel.

 

i love the skoda and will be keeping this but terry is giving up his bike and we are getting a second car, i want to get a van like vehicle as i tend to collect things as i go lol and i have to bring things down to mam's so basically i want a work horse type car cheap and cheerful, so that the skoda doesnt get trashed a car is cheaper to insure than a van so this is the route i am looking at

 

That clears things up then. There's only one logical choice then:

http://www2.autotrader.co.uk/search...1/sort/default/onesearchad/used,nearlynew,new

Some will laugh, but you can't beat them. Actually very pleasant to drive, good all round performers. A tad heavy on the juice, I got 37mpg from mine on a good run, more like 25mpg round town. Doesn't even notice a few hundred kilos of junk in the back, doubles as a very comfortable family car with ample boot space when the back seats are up, or almost a van with the back seats down. They rarely go wrong but when they do you can fix it yourself, or if you have to put it in the garage, the labour costs are low (because everything is so easy to get to on them).

 

When I got my first turbo diesel car my dad gave me similar advice. His version was this: If the engine sounds wrong, stop, get everyone out of the car, and run

 

Volvo 940 estate.