When to change car ??

[farmer92]

I once considered buying a brand new unimog and using it as a tractor/landrover and car ! didnt in the end lol

I drove a Trantor around for a while a few years back.

 

[Martin Holden]

All depends on how many miles per Year you drive, how much you like a change of car from time to time and what the main use is. I would go for a dealers ex demo car under 12 months old and with the balance of the manufacturers warranty then decide after 3 years whether you run it in longer or sell it privately and start over again.

 

[renewablejohn]

Must admit I do like taking the MB Trac for a spin. Time to enjoy the countryside like cycling but without all the effort of pedaling uphill.

 

[ollie989898]

I would not buy a brand new car even if I had the full amount in cash in my pocket.

Buy something 3 years old and run it until its value is in balance with potential repairs.

If you get a sizeable parts or repair bill console yourself by remembering the poor sod who lost thousands in depreciation when he bought it new.

 

[Will 1594]

To revive another old thread , @Zebbedee ,have chance of 2.0litre sx 4 same as the wee fiat , sx 4 is 4 years newer and half mileage , one carefull owner and immaculate , and been fancying one for a while ..ours has done 107 k now , absolutly nothing wrong with ours , would you upgrade or just run it till it dies , ours goes through mot evry time ,apart from servicing ,tyres ,and 2 back springs its cost nothing ,.

 

[Zebbedee]

Sometimes the best time to change is before things start to go wrong, so if you find something you fancy then maybe just go with it nothing worse than going and spending money on an older vehicle

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Lease Hire . Change every two years if you do a lot of miles

 

[Cowabunga]

Lease Hire . Change every two years if you do a lot of miles

It must be nearly time for you to change?

 

[Will 1594]

Sometimes the best time to change is before things start to go wrong, so if you find something you fancy then maybe just go with it nothing worse than going and spending money on an older vehicle

,touch wood , nowt wrong with it , just keeps going ,and the egr delete and particulate removal and 200 bhp remap ,to try and kill it has not happened yet , body work good and cannot fault it ,but the newer version,has come up ,and fancied tuning a 2.0 litre

 

[Derrick Hughes]

It must be nearly time for you to change?

March the 1st 63k on the clock and engine only done 20K . Be a good car for someone

 

[Cowabunga]

March the 1st 63k on the clock and engine only done 20K . Be a good car for someone View attachment 763732

So it has had an engine failure? Have they sorted the front tyre scrubbing issue as well?

 

[FonterraFarmer]

To answer the original question , 7 years or 250,000 miles.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

So it has had an engine failure? Have they sorted the front tyre scrubbing issue as well?

I will be sad to see her gone . I've never loved a car as much

 

[essexpete]

You only live once and it is a short time. If you can afford it, go buy what the hell you like and sod the jealous crowd. Its as simple as that. Only in the UK and possibly Ireland do you find failure and poverty glorified and celebrated and success and wealth derided like some contagious disease.
Lots of people like 'nice things', not for show, but for their own sake. Lots of other people are paid to make and sell those nice things. A lot of tax is raised from those nice things. Thus the success and the trade in nice things spreads the wealth and success down through society, dragging everyone up so they too can purchase nice things, be they cars or a steak or even a lamb dinner , or more.

In rural areas the farmer is the one, when he has money, that spends it locally. No matter whether its a new tractor or a new car, the result is the same, his money, or a proportion of it goes in tax and in keeping local people in employment so that they too can buy that farmer's produce and spend their wages locally, or wherever and on whatever they desire, such as a local house maybe. Its their choice.

No money or poverty pay and people spending as little as possible, means misery for many.

Lot of truth in this but buying a serviceable older car also contributes to the chain but you can only do it if someone has gone before with £. The real point is folk should just do what they are happy with with out going beyond their means.

 

[ford4000]

Ive had a Sierra, escort, rover 25 (sh!t unreliable thing) avensis , auris and now a 2 year old Honda CRV.
The auris is the only one that's I've sold that wasn't knackered when it was chopped in! I bought it at 4 years old with 15,000 miles ex motobility for £8400, sold it 9 years old with only 85,000 miles for £1900, but our 3 children had outgrown it unfortunately

 

[Bill the Bass]

March the 1st 63k on the clock and engine only done 20K . Be a good car for someone View attachment 763732

Is that a GLC?

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Lot of truth in this but buying a serviceable older car also contributes to the chain but you can only do it if someone has gone before with £. The real point is folk should just do what they are happy with with out going beyond their means.

How can you know if its beyond your means if you pay 30 K for a used car and the engine dies out of warranty. Do what your happy with . I dont like rolling the dice . I think a big part is your annual mileage and how dependant you are on said car

 

[ford4000]

We've had Toyota pickups since 1985, still only on the 3rd one now in 39 years . Current Discovery is 16, the same age as the present Hilux. When something goes wrong with either now I suppose they'll have to be changed for something newer, keep the Hilux on limited use maybe

 

[Courier]

Never sold a car that was worth buying. .

My first memories of father and uncle changing a car was of them locating a garage at the bottom of a hill before checking the second hand stock.

They then towed the (Knocking) bubble style Morris Oxford to the top of the hill so that it could arrive at the garage ostensibly under it's own power.

Deal done and drove off with replacement car. I was under 10 years old.

 

[Courier]

I would go for a dealers ex demo car under 12 months old and with the balance of the manufacturers warranty then decide after 3 years whether you run it in longer or sell it privately and start over again.

Always buy cars for less than the cost of the first years depreciation 'coz they seem to have at least half of their useful life left.

Vans are a different matter, the generally bought new so that I KNOW the service history and will happily put 250,000 + miles on them.(Then put them on non-critical jobs, keep up with the servicing and wait for the "Bang" should get at least another 100,000 miles of virtually depreciation free motoring)

Only van I have had which needed an re-manufactured engine under 185,000 miles was bought Ex-main dealer having been used as their parts van for 15 months with a fully stamped up service schedule, make me wonder if the servicing was actually done ??