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lol, Lou on a bike. She's getting pretty fit now though, smashing the gym.

It's the cheaper option though, saving money and having a brand spanking new 62 plate car with all the trimmings. Lou prefered the drive of the twin air, but economically shebwanted the 1.2 because you drive it less and subsequently get better MPG. Prawn, you know how strong minded Lou is. If she didn't want it would she do it? No.

Because she wants a new car not a £500 shit box. The only way she would go out of the Audi is to have a brand new car. Which she is getting.

No I'm really not. But Prawn is the worst person in the world to try and justify a new car to. How about just saying "Lou wants a new car, and if she gets a new 500 it will save her money too." Lou wants one, so she is getting one. Saving money isn't the only reason. Simples. #edit, can't spell for shit.

Tl;dr.

Who cares if if isn't an upgrade? You're the only person who can't see the financial benefit.

Hmmm, yeah guess so. As long as it's OBD2 it's emissions focused really.

I should think your Passat is less than a third of the monthly cost of the 500; but Lou doesn't want an old car. When it comes to a something which is "middle aged" it is a bit harder, I would say the used car would pip the new car on monthly costs. Probably be about a third cheaper from what I see. 7 year old cars had very little focus on emissions, fuel economy wasn't quite such a worry either. But the initial outlay was less because they were cheaper. Compare something like a 7 year old Fiesta to a new Fiesta and depending on the deal you got on the new car I can't see much financial benefit to it. Cars which are less than 5 years old on average depreciate at £175 a month, after that the figure drops to around £100 from a trade in point of view. The retail market is much slower.

No, it's literally not. I do this all day every day with people lol, the figure do add up. We worked out that averaged over 3 years Lou pays £247 a month to drive the Audi all in. She paid £3000 on the Audi three years ago, and it is worth about £1800 now. In a further three years time it will be worth £-800 IMO. The Fiat is costing Lou a £1250 deposit and as a company on a friends and family deal we are putting in £1750, so her total deposit is £3000 on a £12650 car, she is paying £130.47 a month over 24 months with an optional final payment of £6607.40. In the next 24 months the car is covered under an all inclusive warranty (excluding wear and tear items), has no MOT, is £30 a year to tax and will not need tires/brake pads/other consumables because she does about 6000 miles a year. At the end of the agreement she is left with a £6607.40 balance to either pay outright or re-finance, she can just give the car back and not pay a penny, she can sell the car private and pocket the difference or she can part exchange the car and use the equity to start a new agreement. That is where the confusion comes in and is where a lot of people get confused. Private the car will probably sell for £8500 in two years time, only showing £4100 depreciation, which lets face it is f**king good considering the CURRENT climate. That's from looking on ebay/autotrade/pistonheads. The car will probably trade in for about £7500/8000 and RETAIL on a forecourt for about £9500 in two years time. Still showing more equity than her Audi will be worth in two years time in both instances. During that 24 months she would save £400 for the first year and roughly £300 the second year on her CURRENT insurance premium, as well as averaging a realistic 45mpg where as currently she averages 26mpg because she drive the car like a fanny everywhere because it has a turbo. She spends roughly £160 a month, and averages about 650/660 miles a month in the Audi. The fuel saving for the 500 is over £60 and will bring her fuel bill to below £100 a month. That's a potential fuel saving of circa £700 a year. That's without the £50 a year to MOT, and without the £185 a year saving on taxing the Audi. All in all, if you drive a modified turbo car and want something which is wooshy and fast as f**k then it costs. In maintenance and running costs. For the level of performance it offers and the quality of the car the Audi is by far one of the most cost effective and cheapest ways of having a fast car on a shoe string. That's why our entire circle of friends have hero worshiped them for years. But it's reached a point with Lou now where we are getting old, and we want to start saving to finish out house so we can look to buying a second, and we want to be able to have more adult things in life. I wouldn't say that the Audi is so expensive it is prohibiting those things, but it is an immediate luxury which isn't necessary anymore. Seeing as Lou and I do about 7000 give or take miles a year of stop start traffic and a twice a month 50 mile round trip to see her mum. Which is why I have taken the decision to order Lou a new 500, and will be putting my BMW into storage and entering the company car scheme. An excellent advert for selling the Audi I know; but economy isn't the reason why you'd but the Audi. To be pimp as f**k and to have a fast car is the only reason there.

Just bits of bodywork immediatly, it needs the boot respraying and a touch up on the front bumper. Otherwise it is spot on for now. Until last week she was keeping it forever and ever, she only put two new T1R's on it last week and all the birthday presents I got her are Audi related lol Lou was looking at a 3 year cost of the car, and realistically towards the end of next three years it will be due a cambelt on time interval and a clutch which is £750 of work. It only had a cambelt and metal water pump upgrade in January last year. Factor in those two jobs and it makes the difference between a new car and running the Audi so small it is worth going for a new car. For the price I have offered it to Rainbird it is the best one you could buy. It is less than half what you paid for your standard 5 door pre facelift...

Good man, if you wanted one you won't get a cheaper or better example. Just a shame we are rushed to sell it.

How about a 225bhp 1.8t A3? My girlfriend is selling hers, properly sorted car.

I see what you did there.

Oh shush Rich! That looks rad Bucky, I like it a lot. Have you got anything going on camber wise on the front? BM is totally 100% staying now, had a bit of a shit day and bailed on the guy that was coming to pick it up. Told my mum I can't help her out with a car. Then ordered a set of adjustable lower arms for the rear and booked it in to have one tire swapped and then dropped on it's bum. Looking at removing the rear spoiler now; I'm thinking the best way is going to be to find a Morea Green boot and swap the whole thing over.

Issues which lead to the use of tissues.

Look a like entry for Seamons?

The post you made yesterday about cheap labour seems to be jumping out at me. You seem to have a never ending saga of mishaps, I feel for you dude

I would take the BM off the road and turbo/6pot it but I just have nowhere to do it.

Looks like it, just need to get my confirmation for the company car scheme. Which I should have on Monday.

Yeah. The one Iinked to the other day. My mum rang me up yesterday and said she needs a car ASAP so she is going to have the Leon off me for £1500 and I have signed up to the company car scheme. Makes the most sense, I get a Mazda 3 1.6 diesel for £34 a month, all I have to do it put fuel in it.

Do it, find fault with it. Other than a leaky down pipe gasket you won't. Not that it matters, pretty sure I am picking up this Seat Leon Cupra tomorrow and selling it to my mum. Should be picking up a company car on Monday.

You certainly could, but it would be a f**king shed that I wouldn't be seen dead in. There is nothing wrong with the 4 pots, if you look at the fuel and performance figure compared to other cars of their age they are pretty quick. One of the fastest sub 2L cars of their time that didn't have a turbo. It is muppets like yourself (no offense intended) that makes cars like mine "worthless", popping up on forums and saying "yeah but you could get abetter car for less" just devalues the model as a whole. Just because it has 2 cylinders extra and a bit more power, that might (and is) hugely offset by insurance, running costs, most of them being f**ked and all of the sub £1000 ones having done intergallactic mileage. There is no such thing as a cheap BMW, the compromise comes somewhere. Go and find me some of these super cheap 6 pot beemers and let me pick them to pieces.

For less than £1500 you can buy mine, and mine is awesome and mint. Personally I don't like M-Tec bumpers, they look chavy unless they have proper stance and some badass wheels like Buckys. And also I don't like the fact that everybody puts an M3 badge on them and people presume they're an M.

E36, seriously the best sub £1500 RWD car going. I have been looking about and have been to see quite a few cars recently and honestly I cannot find anything that drives as well and offers as much gangster comfort. 328's aren't that bad on fuel or insurance and are SO cheap, £1500 will buy you a very nice one. 318is's are not all that slow and are very balanced, £1500 would buy you the nicest of the nice for them.

Raww why are people such liars and general muppets! Went out to look at this Saab, got quite excited and was all up for it. It was half 9 at night because that was the soonest this guy could finish work, so he turned up and took one look at the BM and said he'd have it. I started looking over the Saab, there were a few body marks and things but nothing I couldn't fix. Other than a weird rash like mark on the passenger rear wheel arch that had been touched in badly. Took it for a drive, put my foot down and it was very disappointing, felt shite. Knocked it down to second and it went MUCH better, gave it another pull in second and it felt a bit slow again. But in general the whole car felt tired. Not like my BM which was hewn from the meteor that knocked out the dinosaurs. Drove it back to the garage and opened the bonnet and checked the oil, it had none and puffs of blue smoke were coming out the dipstick tube/filler cap. Which is pretty normal for a car with no oil in it to be honest. Thought I could live with that, take the risk and put oil in it and job done. Took the cap off the expansion tank and it gushed a bit of water out and is totally over filled by miles, probably got a pint too much in it. But no mayo there and no oil floating on top which was good. Started it up and had a good look around the engine bay, the idler tensioner/waterpump pulley is grinding and needs a new bearing. Super annoying and arsey job, the guy who owned it said he had never thought to check the water, the oil or that noise. It sounded like a release bearing it was that noisy. Got inside the car and it all seemed ok; but the stereo doesn't work all the time and there is some chav tastic sub screwed to the back of the rear seats with a switch mounted next to the heated seat switches, and only the front speakers work. Then he starts explaining about that and how he spent loads of money putting pioneer speakers in the front and all that bollocks. Tried to get in the back to have a poke around and the drivers seat would't tilt forwards, so then he spills his pearls of knowledge about that too. All in all I just kept on finding things wrong with it, and he then came clean about them all. Which f**ked me off, because if he had of just told me in the first place I wouldn't have bothered even going to look at it. But my BM has been described as immaculate bar a small scuff on the bumper, the spoiler being lose and the exhaust needing a downpipe gasket. And you wouldn't find any other faults with it past that. I just don't know what these jokers are playing at.