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<blockquote data-quote="Princess Pooper" data-source="post: 3374212" data-attributes="member: 971"><p>I am 50 have owned a car since I was 21. I have had 4 cars, a metro, and then diesel Peugeot 205, 306 and 307. All at least 2 yrs old when bought, all run into the ground except the latter which is still in use. The 205 went to another owner at 210,000 miles as it had a lot of silly niggly faults like the hand-wound window getting stuck, great for a spanner head to play with. IT did a further 40,000 miles including visiting Germany!</p><p>At one point I was doing 25,000 miles a year a lot of it up and down farm drives and on rural lanes, although a lot less now I don't do much off farm use. As a female driver usually on my own and often in very rural areas in all weathers a long way from home, reliability has always been important to me and I have only had to call recovery due to mechanical breakdown once in 30 years (split fuel pipe). Serviced regularly, minimal own maintenance other than checking oil water etc. Great local trustworthy independent garage whom I would recommend to anyone.</p><p></p><p>Always got enough money put buy to go out and pay for a 'new' one should I get a sudden death. (Not the case in 1990's when the metro failed its MOT, sub frame rusted through no point in mending and a loan from Mum was required!) The 307 was the most expensive I think about £7k but it was also the newest as it didn't need an MOT to start with I think all the others were past that stage.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Princess Pooper, post: 3374212, member: 971"] I am 50 have owned a car since I was 21. I have had 4 cars, a metro, and then diesel Peugeot 205, 306 and 307. All at least 2 yrs old when bought, all run into the ground except the latter which is still in use. The 205 went to another owner at 210,000 miles as it had a lot of silly niggly faults like the hand-wound window getting stuck, great for a spanner head to play with. IT did a further 40,000 miles including visiting Germany! At one point I was doing 25,000 miles a year a lot of it up and down farm drives and on rural lanes, although a lot less now I don't do much off farm use. As a female driver usually on my own and often in very rural areas in all weathers a long way from home, reliability has always been important to me and I have only had to call recovery due to mechanical breakdown once in 30 years (split fuel pipe). Serviced regularly, minimal own maintenance other than checking oil water etc. Great local trustworthy independent garage whom I would recommend to anyone. Always got enough money put buy to go out and pay for a 'new' one should I get a sudden death. (Not the case in 1990's when the metro failed its MOT, sub frame rusted through no point in mending and a loan from Mum was required!) The 307 was the most expensive I think about £7k but it was also the newest as it didn't need an MOT to start with I think all the others were past that stage. [/QUOTE]
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