Iv thrown some absolute dream ideas in here before but this actually might to have to happen.
Jazz (58 Plate 1.2 Petrol, dented front bumpers both sides) brakes still fucked going back into the garage tomorrow. If it’s more money that’s £750 Iv spent on it in 19 month already, if it’s their fuck up hopefully free. Think I paid £1700 for it, and have put 20,000 miles on it since I bought it, so has done 65k now. Full set of tyres, new headlight for MOT, new wipers, and new front discs and pad left and right.
Do I buy another second hand car or get something on finance? Or pay more on this. MOT due again in October.
Could pay maybe £2.5k for something second hand, mainly doing motorway miles. Or do I finance something, probs doing 20,000 miles a year I reckon now.
Sounds like you’ve only been spending money on consumables - i.e. stuff that wears out naturally.
That car will probably be very cheap to run for the next 10-20k miles.
It’s your call, but jumping out of a car you’ve spent a load of money on into another car you know nothing about isn’t generally a great way to save cash. I’d be tempted to run it until it breaks.
65k is nothing for a modern car these days. Barely run in as they say. Like Jimo said brakes are consumables they will always need replaced at some point. Keeping or buying a new car is always a gamble. If you’re going to be doing 20k miles a year just keep on top of servicing it doesn’t guarantee things won’t go wrong but just gives you piece of mind.
If you do absolutely nothing else have a look in the book and change the oil on time. It’s dead easy to learn to do it yourself. Learning to change brake pads etc. can save you a good bit of money too.
Stuff on the mini I’ll do myself. It’s simple and I don’t need it for work. The bus I’ll do basic servicing but anything bigger I’ll leave it to the garage. They have more tools then me if anything goes wrong. That way you don’t have to worry about fixing it to get to work the following day.
You’re right, I’m very luck to have an older brother who taught me loads and had my back.
Helps that he’s a machinist with a pretty sorted workshop now. Still gets me out the shit.
This advice goes out to you all. Having owned a garage, giving a car a ‘service’ can mean many things. I think most people assume the oil and air filter is changed, but what about oil and fuel filters? Is anything else done? We used to do as much as we could, from oiling all the manual locks to aligning the water jets so they hit the windscreen correctly.
Basically not all servicing is the same. If you want a solid job done, take to a main dealer. I wouldn’t personally, I would take it to a locally recommended garage. Get that oil and fuel filter changed as well, not just the oil.
A point to note a lot of what you’d think are service items on more modern cars are deemed as life time. We had a BMW mini and the fuel filter was a life time item, I still changed it. Same goes for things like gearbox oil and other bits and pieces as well.
So fixed again. Rear brakes need doing soon was an indicator making that noise so gunna saveth some p and get something on finance September time. Chop the Jazz in with it.
It’s easy to afford a performance car nedders but the real costs come in maintaining it. Will be the same with that Yaris, brakes, tyres will be super expensive. I’d keep the Jazz.
