new car bought and paid for this Morning . It is a Skoda Karoq SE, build date 30 sept 2025 so in has the 75 number plate (2026). But we are having a personal plate put onto it from our Nissan
So why change? the Nissan and the Honda are 10/11 years old ok with low milage but may soon needing something done on them maybe. also I don’t think I passed the DVLA eye test(but fingers crossed) didn’t do too well on the field test. If Sue is going to be the only person to drive no point in having 2 cars.
Why Skoda? the one we just bought only has believe it or not just 5 miles on the clock and also reduced in price. It is a bit smaller than the Nissan xtrail but still a decent size which suiits us. cames with a load of bells and whistles , not so many as the Nissan but cover most things. Decided to buy a proper space saver spare wheel don’t like squeezy idea at all. also paint protection to keep it looking good.
Good thinking RS, you have to plan ahead, if the Moho gets swapped to a Caravan, the Wife’s car will go the value to be added to the proceeds of the Moho deal, to be replaced by a Range Rover Sport which will have to have less than 20000 miles on it so there is time before the problems start
Don’t go anywhere near Range Rover any model, they come with a lot of problems even new. A neighbour a few door down bought one of them and it spent more time at the garage than at home. Please Please read reports on Range Rovers don’t take my word for it. I also had a Range Rover the central locking kept locking us out. Even the keys we left on the car roof we just watched it lock and unlock without anyone touching. Range Rover refused point blank to fix even though it was still under warranty claiming the waranty didn’t cover electric faults and that was from a main dealer where we bought it from.
In the end I actually threatened to drive it straight through their showroom window if they didn’t fix it. After asking to the service manager if he still wanted to walk after I finished with him. It got that bad trying to get them to fix the fault
never ever after all the cars we had where we treated so bad.
Paid at the time around £32,000 for it , once sold they didn’t want to know
Yes avoid RR , a lady at work bought a used evoke but not from a Land Rover dealer, rear light failed (£700) but replaced under warranty, dreaded light came on for dpf, a known fault, the ingenium engines dpf filter wasn’t located near the engine and didn’t get hot enough to do a proper regen, anyhoo, said lady got rid of the evoke after a few months and bought a CHR ( Toyota) ……I like the modern Skodas I think they look smart…
Hope you have deep pockets, as they may be good to drive but have been voted the car from hell for faults and excessive running/service/repair cost as others mention.
Lucky me then since the cars I’m driving are not included in the vid. One has 120,000 km on the clock and had to be repaired only once (clutch cable). This was the first repair ever of all the cars I’ve had which had a mileage of between 75,000 and 160,000 km.
Yes I know your considering a disco sport, I was just using the evoke as an example, they do share engines ect, so long as you do enough long journeys to trigger the regen for the dpf then you might be ok, how about a Toyota rav 4.?, they have legendary reliability ( ok some will have issues as all cars do) and if you have it serviced by a Toyota dealer then the warranty is extended to 10 years/100k miles…
All my cars have been made before that date as I have better things to waste my money on. The thought of spending £35K on a car to drive on the roads with a bunch of idiots in the rain to boost my ego and have lots of useless gadgets aint my idea of common sense. My last Capri did 100K, looked like new when I sold it, and never gave me any trouble. All my cars that mattered from 1960 onwards have been convertibles, many I restored and used for 60k, then sold for five times what I bought them for. I am at the moment regretting giving away a totally mint 25-year-old convertible with barely any miles on the clock 26k which never went wrong, and I never had seviced. For work I used cheap workhorses and my current car, which does go wrong. Now, dam it, I regret getting rid of my toy and want another dream machine. Lady up the road has a newish Range Rover as mentioned in Spitfire’s post and she has been tearing her hair out with the repair bills, saying she would have purchased a new car rather than the last bill. This weekend she has taken it to London for a repair, as she said they were cheaper. Strange as I read London garages use technicians and charge £135 per hour.
