Car options.....

[cailin maith]

So buy a Benz that's a couple of years older; MB diesels should easily manage 500k miles, some have done more than a million. They seem expensive, but in the long run they're cheap. German and Dutch taxi drivers have good reasons for buying them.

Yep - on holiday this year, the taxi was an E-Class with the big boot thingy and himself was looking at the mile-ometer, actualy it was km's but anyway. He mentioned to the guy about it being on something like 600,000 km's and the ol fella laughed his ass off - "no, no, this is 2nd time round"!!

[Tingles]

Shouldn't you seriously be looking to get a role closer to home?

Doing that sort of mileage will seriously damage your health - we were told that doing over 18,000 miles a year has the same risk as working on a building site.

£200 per month petrol and all the other vehicle costs is prohibitive as a lowly paid permie, surely.


Tone

[SupremeSpod]

Shouldn't you seriously be looking to get a role closer to home?

Doing that sort of mileage will seriously damage your health - we were told that doing over 18,000 miles a year has the same risk as working on a building site.

£200 per month petrol and all the other vehicle costs is prohibitive as a lowly paid permie, surely.


Tone

I've met the fella, he's too stupid to be risk averse. Nothing to do with bravery, just nutty as the proverbial fruitcake.

[FiveTimes]

Do your insurance company that you do 35k miles per year ?

If so .. ouch

[Bunk]

Also, how much will leasing a car cost when they find out you're doing 35k a year?

[MaryPoppins]

Also, how much will leasing a car cost when they find out you're doing 35k a year?

If it's more than a tenner a month for a Peugeot, it's too much.

[doodab]

Doing that sort of mileage will seriously damage your health - we were told that doing over 18,000 miles a year has the same risk as working on a building site.

You'll start reading the sun and be unable to bend over without revealing your arse crack?

[filthy1980]

was doing 250 miles daily for almost a year in an 02 diesel mondeo, racked up 180k on it,

they do have a few known & expensive issues normally the dual mass flywheel at 80k ish which can cost £600 ish, or the fuel injectors can go as well (this is what happened to mine) which is around the same

but you can pick one up for around £2500 and get plenty of use outta it

if its a diesel as well always look for an alternative fuel source as well

[Tingles]

was doing 250 miles daily for almost a year in an 02 diesel mondeo, racked up 180k on it,

they do have a few known & expensive issues normally the dual mass flywheel at 80k ish which can cost £600 ish, or the fuel injectors can go as well (this is what happened to mine) which is around the same

but you can pick one up for around £2500 and get plenty of use outta it

if its a diesel as well always look for an alternative fuel source as well

Nightmare with the cost of clutch replacement, I understand?

[d000hg]

Wilmslow - I seem to recall squillions of other "I might get a new car maybe possibly...." threads from you.

Interestingly, Sasguru does the same....