mattbeef

I know its an extra £500 but look at the spec of the octavia if its any good to you
Anzor Autos
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Devildog

Indeed it is.

If you want bomb proof reliability, buy a Toyota.

Passats and golfs also eat brakes if driven with any sense of purpose. VW did a cracking job of creating a percieved sense of quality - excellent marketing, clever use of design and materials in the interiors.

Current ones appear better in this respect, and ironically the older models (ie prior model types to the age B2zero is looking at) were better built in reality.

Averroes

My father only ever bought toyotas until he went over to VW and Audis. Where general reliability is good with Toyotas their build quality isnt exactly all that. Dont know what your personal experience with German cars is, dont know what you have or have not owned but weve had various VWs and Audis mounting to 9 german cars in total and not a single one has let us down.

There are the odd things but be realistic, its a car at the end of the day and no car is 100% perfect.

The main things i ever remember are CV joints on the VW and Audis and Air Flow sensors on the diesels of both. O and on the passat i have experienced the window motor packing in on us but over so many years and two occurences of this overall id still be correct in saying that nothing can be more "bullet proof" than that.

O and Jap diesels, dayum until recently have been apalling. Its until the new generation of Toyota and Honda diesels that decent diesels have emerged from Japan.

Brendan Hughes

Autotrader has a few Toyota Carina and Toyota Corolla Estates available at that price (incl a 1.3 petrol corolla, but it's 0161 so Manchester?). Not sure what the equivalent Nissan and Honda models would be.

mattbeef

what you saying about red!
Its the fastest colour for an Octavia

51st state

deffinately nothing wrong with skoda
better built than vw's

if you want somethin for motorway work, £1500 price bracket

you would be very pushed to beat a 2.0litre mondeo , very tough old car those, how many taxi's do you see!!!!!
toyota's aren't bullit proof, look in autotrader, there must be 4/5 company's selling engines for jap cars!! why if there so good and minor parts are expensive
get a mondeo, running cost are peanuts, parts everywhere and tough car and plenty to choose from 2.0l ghia mondeo

Lum

Nah, my 94/L reg one had 250k on it when I bought it for £700 and had seen plenty of abuse. Provided you didn't mind the toys not working (passenger electric window mechanism missing, rear o/s electric window not working, sunroof not working, interior light that came on randomly unless you removed the bulbs then it was fine, the only engine related issue it has was if you parked it facing uphill for too long it had trouble starting, fixed by chopping the last inch off the end of the fuel line and reattaching.

Never broke down on me once, never serviced it once, the only reason I stopped using it is because local scum smashed 4 of the windows (one of which was the windscreen) and crappy kwik-fit insurance didn't have windscreen cover, so it was cheaper to buy a new shed to run around in (or maybe not since the new shed was a Mk2 Golf which lasted a month before it got nicked)

marks1

iTrader: (2)

hi have you thought about a scooby sport wagon fuel economy on my old year 2000 was great getting around 36 on a run plenty about under 2000k thinks too himself why did i buy a turbo one lol

TonyBurns

iTrader: (3)

A sport wagon will cost about twice as much to service as a normal car, for instance a phase 2 mk1 mondeo diesel does 10k between services, a scoob, 7.5k, the mondeo costs (at a cheap garage) about 150 quid for a decent service, the scoob will be about 200 quid, scoob parts are more expensive than ford parts etc, so not really cheap motoring.

Tony

Averroes

Bravo, actually the Bora is a very tidy little car. It isnt as spacious as the Passat but it sure drives like a dream and a car i would recommend if your willing to pay for one. I was looking after a friends TDi and it was spot on. I really did like it but as i said it wasnt as spacious as the passat hence felt a little odd.

In drive they feel a little different to one another too, most likely due to the size difference and if im not mistaken the Bora is built on a Golf Chassis?

Averroes

O dont get me wrong, it does have enough space for a nice family car but in comparison to the passat it lacks the leg room the passat has