Amazingly, the ins co rung me this morning and we had our settlement discussion, it went well and was resolved amicably. So by the middle of the week I should have a cheque.

Excellent service. Just got the road tax refund form from the Post Office as well.

It has all gone well, and pretty much to plan.

And you are right, I may well look at another Mazda6, but go for a facelifted once from 08 onwards. Problem here is that due to the BIK of company cars being reduced due to emissions, they are nearly all diesel and I want a petrol. So there just isn't as much choice of 3 yr old petrol Mazda 6's about with 60k+ on the clock.

Same with Mondeos etc.

I shall carry on looking and pondering....

thanks. After some pondering on what to do, I decided to buy a cheap car (<£500) and so found a ovlov 440, MoT until March 13, taxed until Sept at a local main dealer for £400. Even comes with a Haynes manual and a bit of card detailing what work the previous owner did over his 9 year ownership.

I'll use this for a few months until am ready to buy another car. Strangely, the ovlov doesn't quite handle as well as the Mazda did.....

cheers,

Stu

And you've obviously recovered well too, glad the old 440's still going well.

There's something very reassuring about cars of that era and build, not too many goodies and those not fitted don't go wrong, simple wiring and mechanics too, having a bulb blow isn't going to send some sam unit into a (expensive) frazzle.

I reckon you'll run the Ovlov till you decide to get what you want and probably get your money back on it.

SWMBO and i have kicked ourselves umpteen times for selling our old 940 TD estate to my sister, they must have had it 6 or 7 years now, it simply soldiers on refusing to break down or rust, she jump starts her Volvo artic with it when the dreaded computers run the batteries flat over Christmas or holidays, the 940 is still on the same Varta battery it had when we bought it, they have a fleet of cars, smart Audi's, all sorts, guess which one gets used when the car simply must not break down?...they really don't make 'em like that any more, a computer free zone, if they did we'd have another in a shot.

Will you go Japanese again?

Edited by gordonbennet on 13/08/2012 at 16:41

Sadly, here I am 6 months later still with the Volvo and it's still going well....

Time to start looking though, MoT up next month and even if it passes it's time to move on.

Might go up market, I am sure an upmarket car dealer will love me if I agree a sale then come up collect the new mota in the ovlov and then generously donate it to them "look mate it's got 30seconds/12 months MoT and 6 months tax......"

"Please do not leave it here sir. I can call a scrapyard for you "

etc.

The new 6 is gorgeous and the last one was no ugly duckling, if only I could justify one!

Hi Tony,

Apologies for my late reply.

Things have moooooved on, the ovlov passed it's MoT just requiring a back box.

Prior to MoT time, an on-line check of it's worth for scrap was £140 collected, so that's the minimum value, plus £100 for the remaining road tax = £240 min.

I reckon its' worth about £350 privately.

but there's the hassle, if I buy another car and then transfer the insurance then I have to SORN the volvo. I'm not going to mess around with temp insurance, it's not worth it.

I could sell it after agreeing to buy another car, that is a possibility.

Anyway, the dealer I saw today didn't laugh in my face when I asked about the volvo as a swapper; he ran it through his on-line valuation and it came back at £180.......so he said he could double that!! :-)

Thus meeting my expectations.

So, if I decide to buy a vehicle from them it should be ok, I won't need to give the volvo away and they won't need to warn me about not leaving it on the forecourt.....

cheers

Stu

Bought a 3yr old 3L petrol XF in the end. Bit of a change from a Volvo 440.....

P/ex'd the Volvo as whilst it only needed a back box for it's MoT, the rear shocks had rusted through at the top so clearly needed new rear shocks pretty sharpish.

Not worth the hassle from my point of view to sell a car like that so swapped it against the Jag. It just about covered the road tax.....