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funkmasterp · 2021-10-28T18:08:21Z

Well the Zafira has finally gone to the great garage in the sky after dying on Sunday. I just need a no nonsense car that is cheap to run. Don’t care about ride feel or any of that bollocks. I’ve been looking on Cazoo as used with monthly payments is the only real option. Budget of £150 per month at the absolute max. Anything particularly good or best avoided? I was going to try and go without but public transport is shit. Need to work from one of our sites tomorrow. This entails getting up before 05:00 and spending £15 on two trains to get somewhere that’s 11 miles away for 08:00. No wonder folk are reluctant to give up car ownership 😕

binners

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As an addition to Rusty’s Mk4 Golf suggestion, how about a MK1 Skoda Octavia? They’re cheap as chips and bombproof. I paid £1.5k for a mint 1.8T vRS estate (from a garage with a FSH) and it’s not missed a beat in 3 years and it’s lively enough to be good fun to drive. You can fit half a house in the back of it too. New cam chain and water pump, battery and brake discs and that’s about it. Service them regularly and they’ll run for ever. A mate has one with 250k on it and still going strong

Posted : 29/10/2021 8:21 pm

funkrodent

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Honda Civic, the wedge shaped one, is a great car. Good boot and with the "magic seats" the rear seats fold flat to the floor for bike carrying duties.

Those Mk1 Octavias are excellent too. There's a reason you still see cabbies plying their trade in them!

Posted : 30/10/2021 12:02 am

IHN

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That’s cheered me up whilst sat at Hazel Grove train station waiting for a train to Stockport. Where I’ll sit and wait for a train to Macclesfield.

Get the Macc train from Poynton instead? I know you have to get to Poynton, obvs...

Posted : 30/10/2021 11:06 am

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