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Post by Alanović on Sept 27, 2021 10:13:58 GMT
Have now had an offer of £11,800 for the Civic. So I'm over £4k equity now. I'm getting offers from dealers using Wizzle - which is run by Car Wow. Dealer will buy the car, settle the finance and pay me the balance, then collect the car for free. So I think I'll sleep on that one for a day, and see how I feel in the morning. With a view to perhaps looking at this very low mileage Mazda 6 tomorrow, which is in my near vicinity: www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202108096022069
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Post by Humph on Sept 27, 2021 10:52:23 GMT
That looks like a nice car Al. Still struggling with how a 14 year old mainstream car can be worth that much mind. But, it is a very strange time.
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Post by Alanović on Sept 27, 2021 11:23:01 GMT
Good Lord, an offer for £12k has just come in.
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Post by Rob on Sept 27, 2021 11:27:50 GMT
I found my Mazda6 Sport of that vintage a nice drive and comfortable. But in the last 12 months the gearbox had problems but mine was a diesel so probably a different gearbox. It was almost impossible to select 1st gear at times.
I am surprised at the cost. When new my 2.0D Sport model was only about £19k fourteen years ago!
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Post by Humph on Sept 27, 2021 11:32:59 GMT
I keep getting increasingly surprising offers for all of our cars. Amusing, but not tempting yet.
Think I've got a slow puncture on the Merc though, maybe it is time for it to go...
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Post by EspadaIII on Sept 27, 2021 12:40:26 GMT
Ah.. that kerbstone is getting its own back.....
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Post by dixinormus on Sept 27, 2021 19:56:43 GMT
Looks like a tidy car Al. Plenty of them still on the roads so I guess they must be inherently reliable. Maybe not particularly fuel efficient but on your annual mileage who cares?
Worth crawling underneath to check for any rust? And budget 500 quid for the inevitable clutch/alternator/battery or other ancillary of choice that will probably pack up each year.
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Post by Alanović on Sept 28, 2021 8:25:26 GMT
Having slept on it I think it's a non-starter. The intention would have been to have the lad drive to school in the Leaf once he has passed his test, but that would mean having him main driver on the insuraance, and that's a touch under £3k a year. That Mazda 6 is similar too, £2.6k per annum with him as main driver. Those quotes are dummy quotes assuming a 17 year old at my address with a full licence held for under a year and no NCB etc.
Just going round in circles now. Might be going back to thinking of a 3rd car with low insurance. Oh I don't know. Bloody hell. I'm getting fed up thinking about it, whichever way I jump there's a "gotcha".
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Post by Humph on Sept 28, 2021 8:58:25 GMT
Which is why most families, when faced with this dilemma, end up with an extra, low cost, small car. We absolutely don't need three cars either, but it is the line of least resistance. Or, ( don't get cross ! ) bin the Leaf and buy an old Aygo. 😉
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Post by WDB on Sept 28, 2021 9:40:35 GMT
I've got a blue one that will probably be spare next spring. May have a few spiders in it by then from all those tip runs.
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Post by Humph on Sept 28, 2021 9:46:33 GMT
I've been hacking about in my son's Aygo these past couple of days. Just because the Merc has a slow puncture and I haven't got around to doing anything about that yet.
Of course it's old and basic, but you know what, it's just fine. Does everything it's supposed to, and as you point out WDB, doesn't seem to use much fuel while doing so.
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Post by Alanović on Sept 28, 2021 9:48:29 GMT
For a third car we're still looking at C segment or above. Group 14 insurance is around as strong as I can stomach, cost seems to escalate heavily from there on upwards. Mrs A woud love an (automatic) Aygo or similar, Al Jr not so much.
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Post by WDB on Sept 28, 2021 9:52:58 GMT
Given the noises our manual Aygo makes getting itself and 200kg of occupants up a moderate hill, I hate to think what an automatic would be like. 🙉
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Post by Humph on Sept 28, 2021 10:03:02 GMT
A good friend of my son ( his age ) is doing quite well persuing his dream of being a professional racing driver. Not very famous yet, but doing well enough to earn good money and gaining sponsors. Everything he earns is ploughed back into the not inconsiderable costs of following his passion. He holds no fantasy of being the next Lewis Hamilton, but he seems to be good enough to make it worth the effort for now.
Anyway, his personal car is a newish Aygo automatic. Not his first choice as you'd imagine, but he likes a paddle shift and when you're 21 and have to state on your insurance that your job is "racing driver" your choices are a bit limited by premiums unless you're earning the big bucks.
He says it's a woeful gearbox, but he has learned to live with it and drive around its limitations.
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Post by Alanović on Sept 29, 2021 10:10:47 GMT
OK. So. Change Civic for Mazda 6. Have obtained dummy insurance quote with named provisional licence driver on that coming in at £420 a year. OK, I can stomach that, not huge amounts more than I pay now. But then when he passes I think he'll have to have that 3rd car in a low insurance group because as I said main driver with full licence on either a Leaf or a Mazda 6 is getting close to £3k a year. And for that I can buy an old banger and insure it.
So I think that might be the plan.
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