hemmjonny Posted April 23, 2017 Share Posted April 23, 2017 Hi all, My sister and her family need a new car. They have around £4500 to spend and are looking for cheap trouble free as possible. What would you recommend? Needs to be fairly large as they have 2 kids and her husband is in a band so need to be big enough to transport his drums about. Any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks Jonny Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evinX Posted April 23, 2017 Share Posted April 23, 2017 Id recoomend a low miles p12 primera estate. Very trouble free and wheh they need maintaining parts are fairly cheap. We have 2 in the family a saloon and hatchback version. Had then for going on 4-5 years. Lovely dashboards to Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hemmjonny Posted April 23, 2017 Author Share Posted April 23, 2017 Id recoomend a low miles p12 primera estate. Very trouble free and wheh they need maintaining parts are fairly cheap. We have 2 in the family a saloon and hatchback version. Had then for going on 4-5 years. Lovely dashboards to Cheers mate I will have a look :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swampy442 Posted April 23, 2017 Share Posted April 23, 2017 Skoda Octavia, every time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
el_bandido Posted April 23, 2017 Share Posted April 23, 2017 Avensis would be a good shout. Had a guy in the office who has had 3 different iterations and swears by them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hemmjonny Posted April 23, 2017 Author Share Posted April 23, 2017 Cheers for the info guys. Now the million dollar question should she go petrol or diesel? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evinX Posted April 23, 2017 Share Posted April 23, 2017 Petrol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyson Posted April 23, 2017 Share Posted April 23, 2017 Petrol. Or a diesel without a dpf. If you can find one a Passat estate with a pd engine would be ideal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Konrad Posted April 24, 2017 Share Posted April 24, 2017 Toyota Avensis or Honda Accord petrol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamesmark Posted April 24, 2017 Share Posted April 24, 2017 If they do not need an ISOFIX car, then a Volvo XC70 D5, a 53 plate with the 163bhp engine. Get it remapped, I had one and I could get easily 800 miles on a full tank sometimes more if I took my time, which surprised the hell out of me considering it is AWD and weighs 1.8 ton. The D5 engine really did take a remap well. Get one with full service history, when I let mine go with 193k miles and the engine was as clean and dry as a bone. Never had a car quite like it. My lass was a solo singer and we had no trouble with boot space, the ones mentioned above are smaller than the XC70 for boot space. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hemmjonny Posted April 24, 2017 Author Share Posted April 24, 2017 Cheers for the advice guy. Really appreciated Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abz Posted April 24, 2017 Share Posted April 24, 2017 Toyota Avensis or Honda Accord petrol This, especially the Avensis... out here in Dubai they are used as Taxi's and plenty of them have 700Km on the clock and still going strong. Some of them share the cars so one person does a 12 hour shift then passes it to his colleague and then the car goes on another 12 hours, not too bad in the winter time but during the scorching summers it would take quite a toll on the cars. I also got my Dad a diesel Avensis and although I told him it might not last that long as I got it pretty cheap and it has 140k on the clock, the thing just keeps going. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hitbox Junkie Posted April 24, 2017 Share Posted April 24, 2017 Skoda octavia. Bmw 5series. A4 or a6 advant Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annabella Posted April 24, 2017 Share Posted April 24, 2017 Mazda 6 Estate - Petrol only! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SupraAyf Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 I've seen Jurgen selling a few nice Jap estate cars with a few hundred horses under the bonnet. As a private sale I reckon you could purchase a Jap-imported 4x4 sporty Subaru estate for less than £4,500. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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