(02-01-2013, 03:18 PM)Poodle Wrote: The "cost of owning a 306" is nothing to do with the cars, it's you mate. Not being funny, but every time you buy a new car you spend weeks moaning about it's problems and spending money fixing them, then decide to sell it just as it's beginning to resemble a motor that somebody would actually want. If you want cars to stop costing you so much you need to do two things: 1) stop selling half-decent cars and replacing them with sheds 2) actually finish the job of fixing one and hang on to it.
What? Where did you get that idea from?
I sold my ph2 with a broken clutch and 'box.
I sold the diablo ph3 because it was never right after the coil pack spiked the ECU and I wasn't paying for another ECU, kept running like shit and overheating and stop light and various other dash lights - I should've learnt at this point that 306s are rubbish, but I didn't.
I sold the china 1.4 with its 3rd gearbox failing and a couple of other issues
I sold the 1.8 because it was f*cking awesome - except for doing 35mpg!
Thats the only one that was decent when I sold it.I sold the silver Golf when the DMF was just starting to go
I didnt sell the blue Golf, I broke it as it certainly wasnt in a tate that anyone would want.
I didnt sell the estate, as I never bought it lol
And this estate will never be a car that someone 'wants' now, too much of it has been ruined by ruined by previous owners, which is the worst thing about 306s. I have noubt that if I owned owned one from new it would've been much better....
Only one of those cars was half decent when I sold it, the 1.8, and only sold it because I couldn't afford the fuel and needed a rattly smelly old diesel....
(02-01-2013, 03:21 PM)Ruan Wrote: I've owned two cars since starting on this forum... I've lost count of the many other have had...
It's cheaper to keep a car that's OK on fuel than keep changing... It ends up costing you a fortune... You seem to not appreciate the correlation between price of car and running costs...
No, I see the corrolation.
Buy something cheap and it'll keep break which is inconvient and wastes time and money to fix. It'll use a lot more fuel and cost loads to tax and insure (how a mapped, lowered 306 costs more to insure than a mapped Golf I have no idea!). And it'll depreciate like hell as no-one wants them these days hence the majority getting broken for parts.
Buy something more expensive to start with - it'll be much better on fuel, cost half as much to tax. Cost less to insure. Be quicker to start with, despite being cheaper to run. It'll be much better specced. Won't be perpetually broken. Will be more comfotable. AND will still give a good return when you come to sell it, even if you break it!!
The ONLY thing that puts me off buying a newer car is the fixing cost when anything major goes wrong, but as things like a turbo or DMF will be once in a cars lifetime you've got to be pretty unlucky to have one fail.
I've realised what I've been doing wrong now anyway - modifying!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The next car I buy will be under 10 years old, under 100k miles and most importantly will remain standard!! Oh and be bought from a decent dealer with warranty so they can fix it if it breaks.