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General Car Chat / Re: Costs of running a car
« on: 25 March 2024, 10:14:26 »
As to Zafiras and running costs, mine was an incredibly reliable, cheap to run car. Bought from auction, a fair few issues were discovered before it even got home, including an inability to rev beyond about 3k rpm 
. But once that nice DTM fella had sorted that, it never had more than basic servicing, and I thought it was indestructible. ...until the front subframe fell apart.
It was gutless, handled shite, was desperately uncomfortable on longer trips. But it was reliable, practical, reasonably economical (around 40mpg most of the time), cheap to run, and good fun to drive (as you dared not slow down for anything, as took too long to get back up to speed
When it died, we looked at Zafira-B's to replace it, but every single one we looked at was a rust bucket underneath
. But once that nice DTM fella had sorted that, it never had more than basic servicing, and I thought it was indestructible. ...until the front subframe fell apart.It was gutless, handled shite, was desperately uncomfortable on longer trips. But it was reliable, practical, reasonably economical (around 40mpg most of the time), cheap to run, and good fun to drive (as you dared not slow down for anything, as took too long to get back up to speed
When it died, we looked at Zafira-B's to replace it, but every single one we looked at was a rust bucket underneath
