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Buying a car - need advice (pg. 2)
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| Trancedewd |
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• you can accelerate + brake at the same time, using the same foot!
• the car (not just the steering) is awfully light, especially in bad conditions, i managed to nearly spin out at 12mph
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sounds fun! :wtf:
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• once when reverse parking on a hill the car did not stall but the power steering and brakes cut out, the steering was extremely unresponsive even on full lock + the handbrake nearly snapped as i tried to stop the car, ask turner if you dont believe me
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see that you're 18, do you have any no claims bonus?
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nope, ive been on and off temp insurance contracts for the past year (insured as a 2nd driver) becuase i wasnt living at home all the time. Insurance for me will be £1100 min to about £1300 :( .
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You will look a total pleb wandering around their car with ur clipboard and pen, so dont |
point taken :D
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if ur not insured to drive their car, u aint driving it |
hmm, not really getting how this works. currently im insured as a 2nd driver on my sis's almera, does this mean i can drive other peoples cars? :conf:
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| dj_mdma |
with you're current insurance state, i do believe, that technically, you are NOT insured to drive this fella's car. However, your sis may be able to if her insurance is fully comp and allows her to drive any other vehicle under 3rd party insurance only. Most policies do allow this, but it will only be for the policy holder, and not named drivers.
Saying that however, i think you will be allowed to drive it with th owner in, this is me referring back to being able to drive a car (as a learner) as long as the other person in the car is over 21?
If you want to go for something different, you could always consider a Nissan 200sx S13 ;) its an older sports coupe and is a group 16 unfortunately, but it is possible to get insured on one of thes at 18 for around 1600 quid...but you will have a faster and more stylish car than any of your mates ;) for starters it has a 170bhp 1.8 turbo engine ;)
or if you're utterly mental like one fella on the SX owners club you could go for the later model, called the S14a
and he has paid 4500 this year to insure it!!!!! |
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| jp |
| Buy Japanese, European cars are crap |
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| Turner |
| quote: | Originally posted by Luke Terry
• once when reverse parking on a hill the car did not stall but the power steering and brakes cut out, the steering was extremely unresponsive even on full lock + the handbrake nearly snapped as i tried to stop the car, ask turner if you dont believe me
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The only option you had was to let it roll down the hill and it nearly failed to do that :stongue: :stongue: :stongue: :stongue:
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• found out about a month ago both tail lights (brake/red things) had both ed despite being fully serviced in september, the one in the boot still worked tho
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Bulbs can blow any time luke :)
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put it this way, i prefer driving my dad's rover metro 100 thing and that is a right heap in all fairness. saxo has a cd player, only reason why i drive it :stongue:
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Well your dads metro has a Cd player if i remember correctly but did you not enter the radio code too many times incorrectly and has locked you out?
:haha: :haha: :haha:
I would offer a grand, whats the worst he going to say? No?
I looked at a punto 2 weeks ago with 2 mechanics from work, the kid wanted £2300 and they both condemed the car. Exhaust was blowing, engine was seaping oil like , clutch was dead.
So i just laughed and said no thank you. :) |
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| Luke Terry |
| quote: | Originally posted by Turner
Well your dads metro has a Cd player if i remember correctly but did you not enter the radio code too many times incorrectly and has locked you out? |
no, it has a tape player which eats tapes. the thing broke and didnt accept a code and had to go to a rover garage for some manual override thing coz it ed when the battery went flat.
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| Turner |
| quote: | Originally posted by Luke Terry
no, it has a tape player which eats tapes. the thing broke and didnt accept a code and had to go to a rover garage for some manual override thing coz it ed when the battery went flat.
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My mistake :p |
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| Trancedewd |
Got a new car :D
its not the one i was talking about earlier as that got sold before i went to view it.
My dad went down to a local auction and got me a red saxo 1.1 1997reg. Its done about 650000 miles and is in a decent condition. Paid £800 for it which seems ok, got a mechanic to check the engine as well and he said all is good :) .
Luke its not that bad a car. All the electrics are working fine and theres nothing wrong with the clutch. I see what you mean about the pedals though, they are tiny + very close together - not very safe if you have big feet. It also likes wheel-spinning a lot, but theres nothing wrong with that :P. Overall, quite a nice nippy wee car.
right, time to go buy 17" alloys, neons + a body kit :wtf:
j/k |
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| jp |
| quote: | Originally posted by Trancedewd
650000 miles |
Thats 25x around the world :nervous: |
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| Ste |
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Buy Japanese, European cars are crap |
haha i dunno, the nissain micra... |
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| jp |
| quote: | Originally posted by Ste
haha i dunno, the nissain micra... |
...is being build in the UK :haha: |
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| Coup |
for his first car that's fine, most people annihilate their first car within 2 years. either thro miss-use of clutch, thraping the engine, boy-racing, twatting the kerb, scrapes, crashes u name it.
its much better to gain them first 2 years of expirience of a car and then get a decent one.
my first was a citron AX, it wasnt a bad car actually.
my second is a mitsubishi which im doing up. |
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