New Truck

[phil t]

6.2 v8 petrol or 6.7 v8 diesel Yet they arrest helmut vw
The mpg of that if you floored it??

Would be as bad as the Mrs 4.2 range rover that has a drink problem

 

[GTB]

That kind of advertising should be banned for missleading.
Sure, if you read it carefully the info is there. But like the £99 korean car, its not real
The deposit is £2802
payments are £5616.
total £8418.
close to £7000 + vat /£291 a month..

Been looking at cost of a small electric car.
the headline price is £142.
actual cost for 8000 per year = £400 a month

Yes that's true. But I expect @Pasty is wise enough to see through all the BS.

 

[Cowabunga]

That kind of advertising should be banned for missleading.
Sure, if you read it carefully the info is there. But like the £99 korean car, its not real
The deposit is £2802
payments are £5616.
total £8418.
close to £7000 + vat /£291 a month..

Been looking at cost of a small electric car.
the headline price is £142.
actual cost for 8000 per year = £400 a month

I get the total rental payment to £6812.75+VAT for two years of moderate use. The VAT is reclaimable to most businesses of course, so shouldn't be counted.
No need to complicate it any further than that.

 

[M-J-G]

If that was me I would not have stopped

That car is stopped!

 

[Derrick Hughes]

That car is stopped!

Yes .he should have put his foot down not braked

 

[Pasty]

Yes that's true. But I expect @Pasty is wise enough to see through all the BS.

My garage man says it may be the oil cooler so the 93 Hilux may live yet. It's difficult isn't it? I had a quick scan of auto trader for some temp wheels and stumbled upon a 98 CRV with 60 odd K on it for £900 and full service history not far from me. I have little doubt that if it's straight, that could be a decent motor for a couple or 4 years. Automatic, stereo etc. Probably an OK drive and would do everything I want.

Then again I can spend £3k a year leasing a nice new and safe truck and have no worries. Get in and drive. It's all about what you need and how much you can afford. Fact is old vehicles often put you in a position where the repair is far beyond what they are worth. That gets difficult to justify in a proper business.

 

[Lincsman]

Picture from today's Daily Mail:

View attachment 454674

Where did @Forage Trader say he was going today?

So the electronic wizardry that keeps you out of trouble isnt fool proof then?

 

[joe soapy]

I get the total rental payment to £6812.75+VAT for two years of moderate use. The VAT is reclaimable to most businesses of course, so shouldn't be counted.
No need to complicate it any further than that.

I tend to just use" ball park" figures for ease of mental maths.
My quick calculation went something like this,
7000 -2 =3500 a year, cattle leave about 100 net,= 35 cattle.
In order to sell 35/ year means approx 100 on farm needing about 70 acresX£10000 acre = £700000
+ machinery + staff = you soon looking at a million investment just to lease a truck!

 

[Pasty]

But transport is a cost and us rural folk can't rely on busses. So what are you going to spend per year? Yes, you can buy a decent but old CRV for £800 and that will probably do but you will have some repair bills, probably. I've always run around in shoe-string motors whether I was flush or not. But now I have kids I have other considerations like their safety. Comfort on long journeys to stop the little buggers killing each other etc. Back along our Sharan ate it's turbo on the M5 and we needed wheels quick so bought a Honda Jazz off our cleaner for a few hundred. Very reliable little car and took us to Wilts the next week to stay with relatives. Try a 4 hour trip (M5 was closed at Bristol) in a Honda Jazz with 3 brothers under 10. Not even funny. That said, when we chopped it in for our new Mazda, they gave me £150 (which was fair as it was a skip) and I still think I should have kept it as it did 90% of what I need and if it broke I could have torched it and hitched home.

Plus there is reliability. If I need to nip up to North Devon to pick up some birds (and they are always in North bloody Devon), what will a day sitting in a lay by waiting for the AA cost me? At the mo I borrow dad's Merc and I'm there and back in a couple or 3 hours.

 

[GTB]

But transport is a cost and us rural folk can't rely on busses. So what are you going to spend per year? Yes, you can buy a decent but old CRV for £800 and that will probably do but you will have some repair bills, probably. I've always run around in shoe-string motors whether I was flush or not. But now I have kids I have other considerations like their safety. Comfort on long journeys to stop the little buggers killing each other etc. Back along our Sharan ate it's turbo on the M5 and we needed wheels quick so bought a Honda Jazz off our cleaner for a few hundred. Very reliable little car and took us to Wilts the next week to stay with relatives. Try a 4 hour trip (M5 was closed at Bristol) in a Honda Jazz with 3 brothers under 10. Not even funny. That said, when we chopped it in for our new Mazda, they gave me £150 (which was fair as it was a skip) and I still think I should have kept it as it did 90% of what I need and if it broke I could have torched it and hitched home.

Plus there is reliability. If I need to nip up to North Devon to pick up some birds (and they are always in North bloody Devon), what will a day sitting in a lay by waiting for the AA cost me? At the mo I borrow dad's Merc and I'm there and back in a couple or 3 hours.

Life's too short to feck about with unreliable vehicles and machines. I've had a belly full of it over the last year and there's now an awful lot of shiny metal on our yard. I just wish I'd stuck to what we've always done which is replace one major machine or vehicle every year rather than having to buy three or four years worth in one go.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Only one available I'd this colour @Cowabunga

 

[Pasty]

Never have a VW again. Last one tried to kill myself and my family on the M5. Every broken down car you see now seems to be a VW.

 

[Cowabunga]

View attachment 456560
Only one available I'd this colour @Cowabunga

You can get matching leather for the seats and trim for that colour. It's different and very nice.

 

[Lincsman]

Never have a VW again. Last one tried to kill myself and my family on the M5. Every broken down car you see now seems to be a VW.

Agreed, not sure where this reliability thing comes from (marketing?) the only car thats I have needed recovering was a VW, and the spend on repairs was horrendous. So its no more VAG and Vauxhall (for different reasons) here.

 

[Pasty]

Agreed, not sure where this reliability thing comes from (marketing?) the only car thats I have needed recovering was a VW, and the spend on repairs was horrendous. So its no more VAG and Vauxhall (for different reasons) here.

Same here. Cost thousands over the years on driveshafts and suspension etc. Interior fell apart. What a steaming heap of shite to be honest. Worst vehicle I ever had. Back to Japanese or Merc for me.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

You can get matching leather for the seats and trim for that colour. It's different and very nice.

That's the other one . Orange is 190 this is 150 .both in Germany . No others in the country apparently

 

[Cowabunga]

Agreed, not sure where this reliability thing comes from (marketing?) the only car thats I have needed recovering was a VW, and the spend on repairs was horrendous. So its no more VAG and Vauxhall (for different reasons) here.

I've never had better than average reliability from any German brand of car to be honest. There's a lot of luck involved with the models.
The most reliable cars I've had in recent times, by that I mean this Century, have been a Range Rover [which I didn't keep out of warranty] and the current Honda. Had zero defects on previous Nissan Juke and the same for this current Qashqai too.
Mercedes didn't break down but was very poorly built. BMW very nicely built but broke down three times away from home. Audi had a few bits and bobs go wrong but nothing serious it has to be said, but I have had some clues that whoever bought it after me had some serious issues with it. It was fine when I sold it with 65,000 miles on the clock.

 

[Cowabunga]

View attachment 456580

That's the other one . Orange is 190 this is 150 .both in Germany . No others in the country apparently

There was a choice of them back in November when I looked.
I like the orange one.

 

[joe soapy]

Life's too short to feck about with unreliable vehicles and machines. I've had a belly full of it over the last year and there's now an awful lot of shiny metal on our yard. I just wish I'd stuck to what we've always done which is replace one major machine or vehicle every year rather than having to buy three or four years worth in one go.

Since 1966 when a the cortina wouldent start, the only 2 times i been stranded was with a Merc

 

[Derrick Hughes]

they worst pile of Shite I have ever owned was a BMW Msport , and the garage who does my repairs says they used to be the best car on the road and are now the worst