I can never understand why people buy brand new cars
I suppose someone has to though. A guy I know, he's not skint but he's not rolling in cash either, gets a new car on that pcp scheme where you take out finance on the depreciation of the car and then after 2 or 3 years you either pay off the remaining amount or hand the car back. A few years ago, he got a high spec Citroen C4 Picasso.

Now, I've had my Renault for 3 years and I paid £1300 for it. Add on repairs, parts, MOTs, road tax, my insurance and the total cost of all the petrol I've put in it (and I've put 32k miles on the clock) and it has still cost me less than he paid out in finance payments over 2 years.

He says it's the peace of mind and convenience if anything goes wrong. But is peace of mind that if there's a fault you can phone them up and they'll sort it really worth all that much?
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Wed 28 Apr 2010, 23:42, 3 replies)

You mean you phone them up and they'll try anything they can to wriggle out of sorting it.
(Freakmandu, Wed 28 Apr 2010, 23:46, closed)

this is true
The dealer had changed hands whilst he had the previous car so when his new Picasso had a blowout, the tyres were strangely absent from what was covered in the warranty.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Wed 28 Apr 2010, 23:51, closed)

It depends on how much mileage you do
and how important it is to you that the car's not off the road being repaired.

That said, I bought my last car, the Laguna II, new. And it was never out of the garage. It really was a badly made car. I replaced 7 (seven) track rod ends on it during the time I had it, among more serious problems.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 29 Apr 2010, 8:28, closed)