Car woes!

[KneesUp]

[QUOTE 3203485, member: 259"]We've moved from Czech-built to Slovak-built. It wasn't my choice but it seems OK so far. [/QUOTE]
That seems a really odd thing to say - I doubt that pre 1993 when they were the same country you would have had an opinion on your car coming from a different factory.

 

[Piemaster]

Any car is 'meh' on a motorway. B-roads and race-tracks are the places to find out what a car is like to drive.

Isn't most daily driving actually quite tedious though, queues of traffic (including motorways). Main reason my next car will be an auto. Very few cars will ever see a track and there seem to be increasing numbers of restrictions on B roads - I like those on the bike as well though. Don't get me wrong, the M525 was nice, but not the £38k list price nice. I could easily have a fun B road car and something practical that will take bikes in the back as well.

 

[Cletus Van Damme]

My mother had a 2009 Corsa automatic it was the biggest heap of shoot ever. It had hardly any miles but the auto box was nothing but trouble, it would lock itself in park and not move for no reason at times. Dealer didn't have a clue. In the end traded it in for a Hyundai i10. Seems to be what you read about Vauxhalls plagued with electrical faults, these cost a fortune to be fixed if they can be traced that is.

I recently got a small car and for me it was the newest I could get with good reliabilty and not poverty spec. Mitsubishi Colt CZ2 was the one that stood out, fairly old design but it's nice to drive, decent on fuel and supposed to be bomb proof reliabilty wise. Really pleased with it, for similar money around here I would of been looking at a 2 year older Hyundai i10 or something, for me it was a no brainer as it is bigger and just a nicer place to be. The other car I was looking at was the Honda Jazz, but it would of been about 4 years older than the Colt for similar money but they are very good cars. I'll just run this into the ground, it's only 2 1/2 years old so should have it for a long time.

 

[cisamcgu]

Honda Jazz

Mine is a 1.4 on an 04 plate with 55,000 miles on the clock. Only thing i have had to replace was the battery and the AA man that came out to collect me said i was the first Honda Jazz he had ever been called out to and he had been working for the AA for 20 years.

It's just come 2nd and 3rd ( hybrid and normal ) in the Which magazine top small cars after being number 1 for the last goodness knows how many years.

I can get two bikes in the back and a lot of luggage too, ask @hopless500 as we travelled down to the New Forest earlier this year to meet up with another CC pal.

I'm retiring in 4 years and will certainly get another one when this one needs to be replaced.

Does it make little clinking noises when you turn the wheel hard left or right ? does the gearbox sound, maybe, a little rough ? If so, get it down to the Honda dealer and get the gearbox looked at - mine had done 54,000 and I needed to replace the gearbox bearings - £900 !!!! Honda know about the problem and extended the warrantee by 7 years on the Jazz and Civic gearboxes - I still had to pay though

 

[hopless500]

Honda Jazz

I can get two bikes in the back and a lot of luggage too, ask @hopless500 as we travelled down to the New Forest earlier this year to meet up with another CC pal.

I'm retiring in 4 years and will certainly get another one when this one needs to be replaced.

Yep. There was loads of room left for cake and beer too

 

[CopperBrompton]

Isn't most daily driving actually quite tedious though, queues of traffic (including motorways).

Well, most of mine isn't as I'll generally take the train if an alternative is a long motorway drive, but my point is only that you can't expect anything but 'meh' even in a Ferrari on a motorway journey.