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Looking for decent car under £6k - any ideas?
After a pretty disastrous experience with my Hyundai i10 and the main dealers, I'm sick to death of it after 19 months and want to trade it for something around the £6k mark.
I'm not too fussed about gadgets etc, I just want a straightforward, honest, reasonably cheap to run car that will last a number of years. I've narrowed it down to a choice between a new Dacia Sandero Access, Peugeot 107 Access, Suzuki Alto 1.0SZ, & a used 5 yr old Focus 1.6 Zetec.
What would be your recommendation amongst the cheap new ones, and is a 5 yr old Focus with 50k miles on it worth considering or is that the age that I'm likely to start seeing costly repair bills?
I'm not too fussed about gadgets etc, I just want a straightforward, honest, reasonably cheap to run car that will last a number of years. I've narrowed it down to a choice between a new Dacia Sandero Access, Peugeot 107 Access, Suzuki Alto 1.0SZ, & a used 5 yr old Focus 1.6 Zetec.
What would be your recommendation amongst the cheap new ones, and is a 5 yr old Focus with 50k miles on it worth considering or is that the age that I'm likely to start seeing costly repair bills?
Asked on 7 April 2014 by romford4
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Honest John
What went wrong with your i10. We want to know so we can warn others. Keith Adams ran a poverty spec Sandero Access and this is his experience:
www.honestjohn.co.uk/our-cars/dacia-sandero/ I think I'd be more inclined to go for the run-out Peugeot 107 or Citroen C1.
www.honestjohn.co.uk/our-cars/dacia-sandero/ I think I'd be more inclined to go for the run-out Peugeot 107 or Citroen C1.
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