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Post by WDB on Jun 17, 2021 8:01:09 GMT
I think the ‘trade’ works on an assumption of 12,000 in the first three years — perhaps as a working company car — dropping to 5,000 in the subsequent years. Like most of the motor trade, it probably belongs to a previous decade, but it would put the expectation for a ten-year-old car at 71,000.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2021 8:04:45 GMT
Oh right, I'd not heard that before.
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Post by EspadaIII on Jun 17, 2021 11:25:19 GMT
Interesting way of determining what mileage a car should have done. My car should have done 71,000 miles by this September and it is just about to roll over 70,000 which it will this weekend. We are off the Barnard Castle (not to have my eyes tested...)
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Post by Humph on Jun 17, 2021 11:59:52 GMT
I'm not going to join in on this one, my five year old car has done 148,000...
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Post by EspadaIII on Jun 17, 2021 12:04:42 GMT
Well you are an outlier in many ways...
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Post by Humph on Jun 17, 2021 12:33:03 GMT
I know, but I don't like to make a big thing of it. Crosses to bear and so on. It's not easy being me you know, despite appearances...
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Post by dixinormus on Jun 19, 2021 5:40:46 GMT
There’ll likely be some big mid-life maintenance bills on the horizon soon won’t there Humph? (The car, not the ex 🤣).
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Post by Humph on Jun 19, 2021 11:04:23 GMT
Possibly, or maybe probably there will. I'm sort of cool with that though, everything costs something when it comes to cars. Either you buy a new one and suffer the depreciation or the monthly cost of a PCP or whatever, or you stick with what you've got and accept that it'll need some money throwing at it to keep it going.
In the end, I still need something that does what that car does, as well as that car does it, for now anyway. One day it'll just feel like the right time to replace it I suppose.
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Post by Humph on Jul 2, 2021 10:39:07 GMT
We've not heard much about the BSM ( Beest Skool of Motoring ) recently. All going well?
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Post by WDB on Jul 2, 2021 11:49:50 GMT
Nothing to report, really. Boy2 had his third two-hour lesson from the Real BSM (I think of myself more as the Continuity BSM) this morning, so he’s probably still a couple of hours away from being ready to go out with me.
(He reports that he did get into fourth gear today, though. Aren’t those helical multi-storey ramps great?)
Boy1 has been home five days but too busy even to look at the Aygo. We’re away for a week from tomorrow, so things may pick up after that.
Both have been driving small French cars. Boy1 says he just about copes with the space in a Clio but prefers the driving environment in the Aygo — not that he’s actually driven it yet. Boy2 has decided to part company with his instructor, whom he likes, because he simply can’t get comfortable in his Peugeot. (I’ve seen the car but I confess I can’t tell if it’s a 208 or a 308.) He has found another instructor who has a Golf, which ought to be better in terms of space for head and feet.
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Post by Humph on Jul 2, 2021 13:19:35 GMT
Oh ok, I guess I'd imagined that you might have been press ganged into supervising quite a lot by now especially with two of them learning. It felt like the engine on our Aygo hardly had time to cool down between journeys after "he" turned 17.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 2, 2021 13:36:10 GMT
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Post by Humph on Jul 2, 2021 13:39:27 GMT
Skint lounge lizard's car.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 2, 2021 13:43:14 GMT
Oh yeah. That's me.
My boy loves it.
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Post by Humph on Jul 2, 2021 13:45:11 GMT
It's ok, he's young, there hasn't really been enough time for his tastes to mature. You however...
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