My beloved 2007 Roomster has reached the stage where to repair it/replace parts is costing more than it's worth.

Here in Ireland people tend to hang on to them, so decent second hand ones rarely come up for sale. 

 

Looking for a similar style reliable car (any make) in terms of carrying space really. Would welcome suggestions.

Really not bothered about looks, though not terribly keen on enormous 'safari hunter' cars.

VW Caddy Life. 

Nothing seems to come close but speaking for myself I would need a car with the same small footprint for parking and to fit my garage. All I can come up with is a VW T CROSS SUV a small car with a roomy interior but nowhere as capacious or versatile as the good old Roomster.  

I like the idea of a VW, but unfortunately everything is looking like WAY out of my budget, which realistically is about 12k euro.

If only people sold old Roomies here, I could find one.

I see some beautiful late models on UK sites, but the VRT and import costs to bring it to Ireland would make it crazy.

I'm not the best person to reply this, as my cars are "the dead ones", but as I was lookin substitute for Yaris Verso, I noticed that those kinds of MPVs are not a common type of cars. Small MPVs are either Golf segment hatchbacks with rised roofs (Golf Plus, C-Max, etc) or small delivery vans with seats inside (Caddy, Kangoo, etc) Skoda Roomster and Toyota Yaris Verso are quite unique designs as they are b-segment passenger cars with totally redesigned rear ends. Both have only one generation, so I think that neither of them was cheap enough to build or they didn't sold well enough. So as bobspark said, there is not that type of cars available. Everybody want's a SUV that larger but not capacious. To have that roomy interior, I'll take a look ar the smallest versions of backseated delivery vans like Renault Kangoo maybe. Or just wait until someone sells you a 2015 Roomster with good maintenance history and low miles.

Further to this, I contacted a guy who regularly brings cars over from the UK. The VRT and costs would not actually be as bad as I thought, so it is possible a 2015 1.2 Roomie will be on its way to me soon and keeping me company for a few years yet.

He described it as 'a car that does not attract the younger driver' and so they are usually kept in pretty good nick. The cheek of him.

 

Really pleased. Thanks all for your suggestions.

New or second hand? The latest Peugeot Partner is to be sold with a diesel engine due to demand.

I can't afford new. My maximum budget, including importation and VRTing it here would be 12k.

As a stopgap, we have replaced valves and coils and while it is still a bit uneven, it's going, which is more than it was doing a week or so ago.

I would struggle to get 1200 euro for it here, so I can't keep spending on it.

The other consideration is that will depreciation on a newer vehicle exceed the repair bills of the current vehicle. The choice is spend on repairs or lose on depreciation. At least you own the devil you know.

Quite so. And with +15 yo vehicle you won't get any price reduction due to age of car. If you have newer car worth 10k€ and it's been repaired with 1000€ it's still 10k€ car, same with 2k€ car. But after 5 years the 10000€ car is something like 5k€ while the 2k€ car is still a 2k€ car.

Skoda yeti it's basically a roomster.