Toms306's China HDi Estate 2012

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Only once you've had a turbo on/off your car over 20 times can you come to me saying it's just too far gone...

True opening salvo is true.

The only reason I scrapped the GTi was because I painted it myself and the paint started literally falling off the car.

The estate? It's a f*cking riot and if anyone knew half the shit i've done to that car, NOONE would want it. You know what the solution is? Keep the car. If you sell a car with broken bits you have to price it accordingly taking labour costs into account. If you fix it yourself you get dirt cheap parts and a couple of hours worth of effort. So straight away that's money lost.

Then the new car, whatever it may be. You either stump up cash on top of the money from the old car, or you buy a shitter car and end up on a downwards spiral of money being thrown down the pan. And then what? You've spent yet MORE money, which would probably have fixed the problems with the previous car, only to have a car that realistically won't save you much money in the long run.

Say you sell a 306HDi for what, £1k? And then you buy a Golf at, say, £3k. Straight away that's £2k outlay, and if you only get an extra 15mpg or so it's pretty unrealistic you'll make that money back when you take depreciation and servicing into account on the Golf.

I'm beginning to see that you seem to want the champagne lifestyle on a lemonade budget.

Personally i'd love to have a newer, better put together car but for the wages i'm on it's not a viable option at all. So to hear you harping on about how the HDi is shit, you want something better spec'd, you want this that and the other is really frustrating. In fact it annoys me greatly.

You really need to learn to live within your means. If you can't afford to run a HDi estate then you really need to start looking at other cars, and unfortunately it looks like "high spec" is something you don't have the luxury of having in a car.