So I am looking for a car for my wife to commute to work with. She only needs to drive for around 15 minutes (no highway)
These are my criteria:
Please help ! I can't make up my mind !
That should last for 10 years eh with maximum driving like 30km a day.
Corollas are bullet proof…just check its history and your good to go.😁
I was hoping for a Subaru or Audi lol
@tomleonhart:
you might be able to get one of those but through private not dealer like the link above.
but i thought mentioned any brand =P
@dasher86: being a brand snob, I do like Subaru and Audi haha. Since getting a bomb car I won't care about it too much.
Your wife will care when she breaks down, then has to catch the bus until it's fixed, all while you wished you cared a bit more.
@tomleonhart:
I have not had a Toyota yet that, regardless of condition, has failed to get me home on the last day of its life, including one that had been stolen,had the rad bashed on [and broken] the kerbing as it took out a parking sign while being chased by the cops, then chased at high speed for another 6 kilometers before seizing up - tho i did have to wait two hours until the morning before filling the rad and drving it back, and it had an 8 kilometer limit then before getting too hot and rattly to drive.
@tomleonhart: Shame I haven't still got it - If you do let them out of the house during the first 6 months, I've found if they can get more than 8 k away, the mind control slips and they don't return..
Find a new wife
Trust me that's more expensive than a new car !
Get her to take a public transport, 15min shouldn't be that long and when she had save enough, let her choose her own car.
I have a 2008 Mazda 2 that is perfect as a run about. You can pick up Mazda 2s and with some negotiation in your budget and kms.
The lawyer looks for a $6k car…? :P Jees Tom!
It's for the wife matey :P
I know, she must be so happy with you :P
get her a pushbike…better for you in the long run for several reasons ;)
Or tell her to do what ^ this guy does…
Run Forrest, Run!
I agree with the bike though… 15mins in car can mean 15mins on bike lol.
Lol. She occasionally needs to drop the child @ childcare.
A bit hesitate to put 2 of my dearest love on a pushbike haha.
Get something Japanese.
I'd probably look at honda or subaru.
Need a Bomb Car for Wife to Drive to Work
so, what's her life insurance worth?
but seriously, just for her to get to and from work? no carrying stuff? pure commuter?
if yes then check out a Kia Rio or a suzuki swift. both are economical cars
I like the Swift. They're cute!
Spackbace might want to sell you one but he is in the wrong state.
Cute they might be, but that's good because Barina's are square faecal containers
5-6k for a bomb car? You could get 4 bomb cars for that much.
haha yeah that's what I was thinking! A bomb car to me is even closer to $500
True. Bomb car you buy for the value of the remaining rego, then park it, take the plates off and find another when the pink slip is due.
Make sure that the bomb car you get has drum brakes and retread tyres. After all, she does drive around and sometimes with your child as well. You don't need good tyres for the shopping and the like either.
So yeah, get an old holden, the early dunnydoors are pretty cheap now 'cept the V8's.
Get her a Toyota dude. I hope you show her this thread. :D
9 out of every 10 breakdowns I see are ' common whores' so leave them well alone, go for a Toyota any day they have never let me down!
I'm surprised no-one has suggested the WP favourite, Falcon on gas.
Ah no! Falcon never!
Get a small car like an Astra, you only need a little putt putt mobile and a small car is cheap to run and repair. I've got an 2001 Astra I paid 2800 for and I drive it heaps, about 1000km a week and haven't had to do any repairs, only maintainance. Got new battery, brake pads. Just make sure the timing belt has been done.
On the other hand, don't get an Astra. They are not known for being reliable, at all.
Well mine is. Funny because you see a lot of old Astra's on the road. I take it you own one to know so much?
They were plagued with expensive issues - timing belts going early, air-con compressor going just outside warranty, not to mention the paint fade on most of them.
For a runabout cheap car air con and paint are not important and if you are driving 15km per day as OP suggests it will take you a long, long time to need a new timing belt and then it is only $400.
@Spackbace: There was that batch of cars that had timing belt issues. They were suppose to last 75-80K however were snapping at 40-50K
Timing belts cost ~$700-$900 on Astras as they need to lift the engine to change it out. Most times when you do that price in the water pump as well as that tends to fail.
Things that went wrong with my partners Astra:
Wheel bearings 20k replacement job??
I have no problem going backwards or forwards, changed spark plugs now it starts first time every time, every though I stop and start it 30 times a day, I have one electrical gremlin, sometimes the interior light just stays on even when I close the door and start it which is annoying but nothing a bit of duct tape doesn't fix. And yeah I have had a bit of a nightmare with brakes but I wouldn't blame the car, I have driven it for 20km, 1 change rotors and brakes front and back so I don't know how long it had been beforehand since they had been changed.
A/C doesn't work but window does.
Also generally if you get a small car you can be pretty confident it hasn't been hooned in because hoons don't like little shitboxes, normally a granny car.
in fact any japanese car will do, with exception for subaru because they tends to be dearer and don't offer small cheaper model.
Plus the timing belt change costs on those Subaru engines is expensive job and you'll be surprised how many people don't do it.
Poor people drive their cars into the ground…
Golf MKV
http://carsales.mobi/cars/details/2003-Toyota-Corolla-Ascent…