I’ll confess that there is an element of that. The reason for that is that my car was at the dealer recently for some warranty work and they gave me a courtesy car which was a 72 plate Fabia 1.0 TSI DSG with a retail price of £23,000 and that didn’t even come with cruise control, only a speed limiter. What I really enjoyed was going back to an automatic gearbox. So that got me thinking; how long do I keep my car going for, now that things are starting to go on it?
As I said before, I like value for money and my Fabia was only £11,000 new, via Drive the Deal, when the dealers wanted £14,000 and that came with cruise, air-con, electric windows and alloy wheels as standard.
But you’re right, if I look at it coldly, there’s no reason not to continue running my Fabia until something major goes wrong and, oddly, that’s exactly what the service manager at my dealer said the other week when I took back the courtesy car. The question is, how big a repair bill do I accept before changing it? 50% of its current value? (which is under £2000).
This thread is just speculative, looking towards what I might replace it with when it does become inevitable.