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Post by dixinormus on Oct 3, 2021 7:08:58 GMT
Can’t be that much work to re-register it bp? Quick MoT, apply for the original UK plates back? Realign the headlamps. I re-imported a Fiesta back in to the UK about 25 years ago. Worth it for a few grand surely?!
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Post by bpg on Oct 3, 2021 10:34:54 GMT
Given you have to wait for DVLC to issue a V5C before you can get plates made up, and comments elsewhere of the time taken to renew existing driving licences, the current used price boom will probably be over before this low priority request is processed. I'd need to replace the headlight units on this car, no levers to pull or software option to switch. It's a quick job to do swapping units out, two pins and a connector, swap the bulbs, put the replacement unit in. Headlight units are GBP600 per side for this car. Think I might have the RHD units lying around somewhere.
I found this on the UK gov website, made me smile: You also have to get a certificate of Mutual Recognition if it’s a left hand drive vehicle.
Getting a certificate of Mutual Recognition Use the application form for your:
motorcycle car van or light goods vehicle motorhome
I didn't know you could buy a LHD or RHD motorcycle.
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Post by bpg on Oct 3, 2021 11:03:30 GMT
This thread has made me think how long do people keep their cars and what triggers a change ? Private motorists who own their cars outright not leasing based or other fixed term loans.
When I lived in the UK covering between 30,000 and 50,000 miles/year I'd start thinking about changing the car when it went over 70,000 miles. 100,000 miles seemed to be the point which really affected used car values, this was 20+ years ago.
I changed my old S60 because I wanted a change. There was nothing wrong with it, it's still going now at over 260,000 miles, I'd owned it 1 week short of 7 years. The current S60 I will have owned 8 years at the end of November. Not in any rush to change.
What triggers you to change, necessity, planned or something else ?
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Post by WDB on Oct 3, 2021 14:09:53 GMT
When the car no longer serves the purpose I require it for. That can be defined quite broadly; we’ve bought cars when we needed more space (Verso) or better long-distance ability (E220).
The 325d went when I left the job I used to drive it to and became full-time WAH. The CLS for the E is the closest we’ve made to a like-for-like, and that was facilitated by incentives to offload old diesels — although most of that money came from BMW and actually gave us the first i3.
And that went because an updated version was more comfortable and capable, and continued to give us access to London, which we like.
The CLS is on the cusp at the moment. It still does what it does very well, but it now ticks several Bad boxes along with the Good ones. Still thinking hard about that one.
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Post by Humph on Oct 3, 2021 15:10:19 GMT
Pretty much the same, we try to buy cars that are, and will long term, be fit for our purposes, and then keep them until they are not.
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Post by EspadaIII on Oct 3, 2021 16:00:20 GMT
My decision to move the E350 on and replace with an EV was a mix of tax and ULEZ issues likely to raise their head.
Was in London about five weeks ago and within two weeks I got a letter from the Mayor of London telling me that by 25th October my car would fall foul of the ULEZ and be charged £15 per day I went inside the North Circular.
As I now have a child living within a mile of the North Circular and places I am likely to visit inside it, my car choices are slowly being made for me.
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Post by Alanović on Oct 4, 2021 7:48:39 GMT
Shiny. Neighbours.
Those are the main reasons for most people.
With me however, I think it's a mental illness.
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Post by Alanović on Oct 4, 2021 7:56:16 GMT
Anyway. I think I've talked myself into sticking with the Civic. It is such a good car, which I like very much, and it is currently appreciating in value (obviously this won't last forever, but for now, it is the case). I have 18 months left on the PCP, then the MGFV to clear which I can hopefully do with cash when it comes around. Then I have a a fully owned, very low mileage, very reliable, quite roomy and practical, reasonably economical, do everything car in my posession, just at the time when I might be starting regular University runs. I will have purchased it for what now seems like a bargain price. If I start to squeak financially in the next couple of years, I'll refinance it in the interim. We are going to be losing a school fee in little over 18 months now, so maybe best to hang on. I think I would be silly to let it go and replace it with something much older which will probably cause me grief.
Money will be tight, as I will now be looking at a third car for the lad, so I'm going to have to be relatively sensible with that one. But OK. He'll get what we can afford and he'll have to understand that's better than nothing, by a long chalk.
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Post by Humph on Oct 4, 2021 8:04:07 GMT
Right answer.
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Post by Alanović on Oct 4, 2021 8:26:33 GMT
Still don't really want to have to run 3 cars. So a bit still.
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Post by Alanović on Oct 4, 2021 9:11:03 GMT
In other news, only £1,345 for the Aygo. Surprisingly sensible for a near-12-year old biscuit tin, so not everything has gone stratospheric. It has 7/8 of a tank of unleaded in it, though, which may move the needle a bit. Just back from a tip run, more for the sake of an outing (for me and the car) than anything pressing. Roads were awful; standing water everywhere, fallen branches and big stones washed off the fields. I felt vindicated for those four new Continentals in June. Could be that the price rises are happening more to newer reg used cars, which people are turning to in light of new car shortages. Then again, it could have an effect on the botom end too, if people decide to buy stop-gap bangers whilst awaiting their new shiny.
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Post by WDB on Oct 4, 2021 9:47:42 GMT
I think I would be silly to let it go and replace it with something much older which will probably cause me grief. Who are you, and etc?
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Post by Alanović on Oct 4, 2021 10:05:23 GMT
Still pains me to see £190 a month going out of the account just so I can admire it on the driveway though. My inner Drymonian is still there.
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Post by Humph on Oct 4, 2021 10:13:00 GMT
Thing is, if you do keep the Civic, and for what it's worth by way of an opinion from me, I think you probably should, in time it will be paid for, and the costs forgotten about.
At your mileage, that car could potentially last you a very long time, it is highly likely to remain reliable and useful, and as a transport platform for family life, it would take some beating.
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Post by Alanović on Oct 4, 2021 10:17:13 GMT
Whilst this is true, I would genuinely like to move to a longer range EV also in the not too distant future (notwithstanding comments about usefulness of the Leaf on the other thread). So, in 2 years time, at the end of the Leaf PCP, I might well go for a longer range EV to replace it, like the MG5 LR, which would pretty much negate the use case for the Civic entirely. But still, yes, it would be paid for and a more useful "second" car to have around than pretty much anything else.
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