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Old Dec 27, 2016 | 10:37 AM
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Originally Posted by smiley
That's some money your talking about sounds pretty nuts I do moon miles in my job just come off 11 months of 240 miles a day years ago I used diesels and had the big repair bills my mechanic worked for vosa and also used to drive silly miles he gave me some advice that I've stuck to buy cheap to maintain desposable cars for work in 4 years I've had a £350 ka 80000 miles currently a £900 1.0 micra that's done 20000 miles in 4 months servicing is stupid cheap like £40 I've paid more than both combined on one repair on a diesel small engined petrols are Deffo the way I don't care how I look driving them it's me that's laughing I have a 2011 v60 5 pot d3 I use at weekends it goes in Thursday for suspected dpf egr fault it's low miler too I hear their bringing in road side testing for dpf removal with a £2000 fine
Exactly, I use to do nearly 70miles a day traveling to and from work. The most expensive car I used was my mk3 mondeo st tdci, the maintenance costs and unreliability was an absolute joke and it wasn't that good on fuel! I got shot of it and went to a small petrol Alfa and never looked back.
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