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Post by Humph on Aug 30, 2022 9:27:45 GMT
Re the new boiler Al, might be reasonable to stick the £5k on the mortgage?
Keep the Honda, it’ll do a job for as long as you need it to.
The Corolla however, well that seems a bit spare right now?
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Post by bpg on Aug 30, 2022 10:05:26 GMT
Once you start adding middle men they all want their cut and at this price point it's just not worth the effort.
I think, as Rob suggested, I stick with it and run it until something expensive breaks or it gets banned from the roads.
The option then is to get rid of the Focus or do nothing. Of course the longer I put off getting rid of the Focus the more difficult it will be if there is a global recession/depression.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2022 10:07:01 GMT
How about the last of the Ghias, Humph? www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202206116682418More up your alley I expect. I'm not convinced "more debt" is the answer at the moment, but then again maybe inflation will, er, inflate it away over the next 10 years. Only problem is I don't see my remuneration keeping up with that inflation. |
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Post by Humph on Aug 30, 2022 10:17:47 GMT
Thirsty old thing that. But maybe that’s ok for you.
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Post by Humph on Aug 30, 2022 10:24:10 GMT
Depends I guess on useful the car is versus how useful the £4k is, or either is forecast to be.
If you think you could live without the Focus, or the slot it fills in your life anyway for a while, then there’s some merit in moving that on.
I’m going to keep my Merc now until one of us dies. 😉
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Post by EspadaIII on Aug 30, 2022 10:51:58 GMT
Thirsty old thing that. But maybe that’s ok for you. We do keep coming back to the auto only 2.3 Mondeos don't we. |
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Post by bpg on Aug 30, 2022 11:21:09 GMT
I’m going to keep my Merc now until one of us dies. 😉 Way to cheer me up. Ingvar Kamprad drove a '93 Volvo 240 GL estate. He's no longer with us. Edit: that Mondeo is a thirsty old thing, my 2.3 Focus automatic is currently averaging more than the figures for that car. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2022 11:32:05 GMT
Thirsty old thing that. But maybe that’s ok for you. We do keep coming back to the auto only 2.3 Mondeos don't we. We do. It is one of the very few answers to: large, 5 doors, TC auto, chain cam, ULEZ, sub-£5k, reasonable VED (my personal ceiling is the £360, sub-225g/CO2 band, which these are in), reliable, cheap to maintain, fairly easy to find well maintained low mileage examples. The only thing it doesn't do is fuel economy, which isn't my major concern for a sub-5k miles a year car, particularly one which isn't for town use (i.e. the extra urban number is far more acceptable then the urban number). I think I'd rather take the fuel economy hit than the risk of DPFs, DMFs, ERGs, DSGs, air suspensions, turbos, injectors etc. I think. My assumption is that most of them are low mileage well maintained examples because they were only ever bought by private, older buyers rather than fleets. Born out by the fact most of them are high spec examples, e.g. Ghia and Titanium/Tit X. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2022 11:33:38 GMT
If your Volvo was auto and a hatch (and ULEZ), I'd swipe your arm off for it, BP.
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Post by WDB on Aug 30, 2022 15:57:05 GMT
No, don't. Part of the point of the various carrots and sticks nudging buyers towards newer, cleaner cars is to push smoky old heaps like that Passat towards the scrapyards. It was state of the art(ish) in 2003 - but so, in 1912, was the Titanic. If your Volvo was auto and a hatch (and ULEZ), I'd swipe your arm off for it, BP. Which exact Volvo model would that make it? Something from the 440 series? |
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Post by bpg on Aug 30, 2022 18:23:54 GMT
He's back to his 360GLS or 480ES. Possibly a heavily crash damaged XC40 could scrape into budget.
Edit: Or, maybe someone like Irv Gordon has a lightly used XC60 with say a million miles on the clock. Sorry! Wash my mouth out, SUV
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Post by bpg on Aug 30, 2022 18:43:30 GMT
No, don't. Part of the point of the various carrots and sticks nudging buyers towards newer, cleaner cars is to push smoky old heaps like that Passat towards the scrapyards. It's all gone very quiet on the CO2 front with all the climate change happening around the world. My 2020 petrol car emits 31% more CO2 than my 2011 diesel. Simple fact is unless you're walking or riding a bike you are polluting the environment even in a BEV. There is no lesser of any evils. Electricity generation is not green and the way things are going will get a lot dirtier before it gets greener. Edit: when you have Governments selling off CO2 emissions not made by BEVs to companies as a green credit and calling it offsetting then we have to take a long hard look at what the objective really is.
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Post by dixinormus on Aug 30, 2022 19:43:19 GMT
Don’t the Greens espouse that it’s better for the planet that we coax more life out of existing vehicles than plunder more natural resources to feed the factories that turn out brand new ones..?
If something like that Passat or Mondeo can take Al to the Alps on an open road is he really a CO2 villain?
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Post by bpg on Aug 30, 2022 20:08:50 GMT
Depends what you read and where. I've read a cars total pollution is 10% at manufacture, 5% at disposal and 85% in between.
Diesel is a pariah due to PM2.5 particles, I don't see how petrol can be seen as the answer, especially older ones, with sky high CO2 numbers.
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Post by WDB on Aug 30, 2022 20:35:56 GMT
If something like that Passat or Mondeo can take Al to the Alps on an open road is he really a CO2 villain? Eh? What’s the relevance of the destination or the road type? CO 2 is CO 2 and it’s a global pollutant, not a local one. |
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