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She still wouldn't buy breakdown cover for it.

She still wouldn't buy breakdown cover for it.

 

No need, it's only got 105k on the clock and Maseratis are renowned for their unimpeachable reliability Although I have heard stories of £8k+ service bills for those things 

A Dacia Duster is the new cool when it comes to reverse snobbery.

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://dacia.co.uk/vehicles/duster

It has all that a New Car needs except the Convertible bit,

so you just open all the windows as you drive about.

 

I was just about to suggest that, then she'd appreciate a Skoda  :-)

You can have a new 65 Plate outside the house for under £13,000 & nobody in Perthshire thinks any the less of you,

they work in the winter and as a keeper they will outlast most cars.

http://www.mopedarmy.com/img/gallery/moped_003_2.jpg

 

Sorted...  It's a classy badge and everything. Sort of.

Cub 90 Classic.

Test drive a hogtie and ballgag on her; only remove them when she's prepared to accept that you choose the cars in this household!

Test drive a hogtie and ballgag on her; only remove them when she's prepared to accept that you choose the cars in this household!

 

I dunno she's got quite a decent right hook on her.

 

We're off next week. I'll try to drag her round a few forecourts.

Cars look different in the metal and sometimes driving them can change your perception also.

 

I used to dislike the look of the original Ford Focus quite a lot. Then I drove one and was so impressed I ended up buying one. Strangely In thought it looked ok after that.

 

If I can I'd like to get her to drive a C30, Qashqai, A1 and something cheap, maybe Korean or Citroen.

Love this thread!!

 

In all fairness, I've never been on a specific car forum before where owners of a particular marque are so open minded about other brands. Quite refreshing really. 

 

Back on topic, and I don't normally say much about cars as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but the X3 is one ugly, confused 'car'. Maybe SWMBO could just plump for a 1 Series diesel?

I think its time to buy her a buss pass, or a blindfold for use until she gets in the car!
Had similar kind of fussiness from my sister-in-law (wants a 10k car on a £500 budget). And tbh, Ive given up after 6 months!!

The forecourt idea is a good one though. When we were looking for a new small diesel for the Mrs, we had 3 or 4 different makes/models in mind, whilst looking at those on a forecourt we came across something totally different we didn't even think of (Yaris diesel) and bought it there and then. Its lasted 5 years with just one £25 part repair over 70,000 miles! Just don't pick a main dealer forecourt, find something with lots of variety, though id say pick somewhere that is way over or under budget but sells the right cars, that way she won't rush into buying a car on that day and it gives you time to research what she has chosen!

Being a bit more productive than my last post, I had exactly the same with my missus three years ago.  She had a Mk3 Golf TDI which she loved, and to be fair it was a cracking car.  At the point where I couldn't jack it up as a jacking point collapsed from rot, I refused to work on it any more.  A few weeks later I got the 'I WANT A NEW CAR' text.

 

So I worked out what she wanted and showed her 20 cars over a couple of weeks.  All of which were non starters; wrong colour, too big, too small, too fast, too slow.

 

My approach was then to say I'd tried and had shown her 20 cars.  This wasn't believed, so I offered to show her all 20 - which needless to say wasn't taken up and went down like a lead balloon.

 

We left it that Sally (wifey) could take all the time she needed, and when she found something she liked the look of, we'd go and look at it.  Lo and behold time was suddenly made available the very next weekend.

 

My final angle of attack, having lost the will a bit, was to buy the first thing she said she liked the look of (providing it wasn't a pile of poo).  And that's exactly what we did.  Went to look at a Leon and as we drove onto the garage forecourt, she clocked a Mazda 3 and said 'oooh, shiny!'.  We took the Leon out for a test drive, I sold her a dummy by suggesting we buy the Fabia VRS SE, and we bought the Mazda.  Job done.

 

Two points:

 

1) Under no circumstances was Sally going to have a blue car.  This was cast in a tablet of stone.  The Mazda is blue  :think:

 

2) Under no circumstances was Sally going to have a car that was any longer than the precious Golf's 4020mm.  The Mazda is 4420mm  :think:

 

So even the fixed rules aren't.  Just follow the path of least resistance and accept que sera sera.  Get a Qashqai and be done with it.

 

Fixing the beemer while perfectly viable and sensible to us, is probably at best going to defer your further suffering, and at worst extend it.

 

All comments and views herein were typed by someone else. I was never here. You never saw me.

 

Gaz

If she really likes an A1 why not just search one down there are loads in budget (£12k) from dealers (may be not main Audi) but so what, as long as they have manufactures warranty?

Nice clean practical 5 door here:http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201505283829761/sort/atcustom/model/a1/radius/1501/postcode/pl199dt/channel/cars/price-to/12000/maximum-mileage/up_to_15000_miles/onesearchad/used%2Cnearlynew%2Cnew/maximum-age/up_to_2_years_old/make/audi/advert-type/ymal/dealer-id/13984/usedcars?logcode=flp

Or if it needs to be an A3 there are a few out there but the mileage soars to stay in budget:

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201507095043477?make=audi&price-to=12000&postcode=pl199dt&maximum-age=up_to_2_years_old&model=a3&channel=cars&search-target=usedcars&sort=atcustom&onesearchad=used%2Cnearlynew%2Cnew&page=1&maximum-mileage=up_to_40000_miles&radius=1500&logcode=p

Just as an example.

Edited 1 August, 201510 yr by Defenderben