Keep or Move on ?

[themul]

Hi,

 

      I have a 62 plate vrs with full service history and it has only done 37k miles  from new but in the last 5 months there have been a few different issues,  gearbox out for new slave cylinder to be fitted and another wheel bearing fitted to rear drivers side wheel and the most recent one is three broken wires causing the boost pressure to vary and this happened 6 weeks ago.

I have now noticed the same issue is back regarding boost pressure varying and a stutter when accelerating usually between 30 - 40mph and 60 - 70mph in 3rd gear and the engine management light is on again so I have booked the car in at my local skoda garage to have a look at it and hopefully it is not more wiring issues.

All the repairs to my car except for the wiring have been covered by my extended warranty so the cost to me has been minimal but I just feel that the time has come to maybe move on and with traveling 90 miles a day in my new job it maybe time to look at a more reliable car and preferably diesel as I only get about 40 mpg if i take it easy.

So I just wondered what your thoughts are on this situation.

 

[xman]

Broken wires in the engine bay? Now, I wonder how that happened.....

Normally I would say, low mileage, well cared for, not an oil burner etc, then why not keep it unless you can get a very good price or deal for it.

 

But in this case, oh dear, this sounds suspiciously like my worst fear, incompetent garage causing more problems than they fix. IMO they damaged wiring during a previous repair. And you are probably wondering if its a one off or the start of a depressing era.

 

A bit late now but I would consider moving to a good specialist in future.

 

To give an opinion on your question though,  you need to tell us what your plan would be if you sell it. Buy new, second hand, what car etc. and what deals and cost to change would be.

 

 

 

Edited 17 March, 2019 by xman

[J.R.]

Agree 100% these cars especially the early ones are usually faultlessly reliable if you keep them out of the hands of garages, I know there are some good ones out there and also many people who are not capable or knowledgable enough to do their own repairs.

 

When I read the liatny of complaints about hopelessly unreliable vehicles there is always one common denominator, I have bought and put right many of these vehicles including my current one, looking through the service history, bills etc you realise just how much time, money and frustration the people entrusted to find and fix always very basic faults have cost the previous owners.

Edited 17 March, 2019 by J.R.

[themul]

I have been looking at buying a 9 month old focus st line diesel 74 mpg  at £14k and 1.5k miles on the clock.The garage has offered £8k for mine so not to bad and I bought my car for £16400 new in Nov 2012. I have had  two ford focus cars in the past only a few months old pre reg and saved quite a lot and they were very reliable and spent next to nothing in repairs and had them for 8 years.

The main aim is buying something less than a year old that will last quite a few years and cheap to run but not cost the earth to buy as it will mainly be used for travel to my work and back home.

[themul]

8 minutes ago, J.R. said:

Agree 100% these cars especially the early ones are usually faultlessly reliable if you keep them out of the hands of garages, I know there are some good ones out there and also many people who are not capable or knowledgable enough to do their own repairs.

 

When I read the liatny of complaints about hopelessly unreliable vehicles there is always one common denominator, I have bought and put right many of these vehicles including my current one, looking through the service history, bills etc you realise just how much time, money and frustration the people entrusted to find and fix always very basic faults have cost the previous owners.

 

I have only ever used my local skoda dealer for any past repairs and cant complain as anything that has been fixed has not needed to go back until now and the only cost so far to me in 6.5 years has only been this boost issue regarding the wiring.

Yes I know what you mean and I do agree that they can create more issues than they resolve.

[xman]

6 hours ago, themul said:

I have been looking at buying a 9 month old focus st line diesel 74 mpg  at £14k and 1.5k miles on the clock.The garage has offered £8k for mine so not to bad and I bought my car for £16400 new in Nov 2012. I have had  two ford focus cars in the past only a few months old pre reg and saved quite a lot and they were very reliable and spent next to nothing in repairs and had them for 8 years.

The main aim is buying something less than a year old that will last quite a few years and cheap to run but not cost the earth to buy as it will mainly be used for travel to my work and back home.

 

Sounds a good deal, price to change only 6k.

 

Only question is why it only has done 1.5k in 9 months, and whether the DPF has suffered from too many short town runs. But presumably it comes "approved" and with the balance of the manufacturers warranty. Do some digging, and check it over carefully for accident damage, it is an ST after all, ask if it has had body or other repair work. Insist on a free oil/filter change as well.

 

[themul]

58 minutes ago, xman said:

 

Sounds a good deal, price to change only 6k.

 

Only question is why it only has done 1.5k in 9 months, and whether the DPF has suffered from too many short town runs. But presumably it comes "approved" and with the balance of the manufacturers warranty. Do some digging, and check it over carefully for accident damage, it is an ST after all, ask if it has had body or other repair work. Insist on a free oil/filter change as well.

 

I understand what you are saying it is an ex demo and has 2 years and 3 months left on it's manufacturing warranty and it is not the ST model looks like one as it is the ST line but with the less powerful diesel engine and a proper ST of the same age would be about £20k.

I have not committed to anything so far just looking at different options and I just wondered how much my car would be roughly worth against the focus.

Thanks for your advise so far.

 

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