Car-less for the first time in 18 years
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highlandsflyer
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You can run a car for peanuts nowadays if you don't do a huge mileage.
Just buy something low mileage, 'bland' but well maintained like an old Jetta someone has given full dealer servicing.
Do your own basic servicing and brakes and use eBay for a set of wheels with better tyres when you need 'em.
Use a back street garage with a good reputation.
Try and drive like you were painting a landscape.
Anything major goes, sell it as it stands and go find another bargain.
Use it as little as you need to, but enough to make it pay.
Try never to drive alone, find people who need to get to the supermarket now and then or into town and make it a paying deal.
I am trying to get down to a half dozen vehicles, when I make London my main base again I will just keep a van and a four wheel drive. We can only have two cars in London for our parking, so I am going to have to work out some proper off road parking somehow.
Just buy something low mileage, 'bland' but well maintained like an old Jetta someone has given full dealer servicing.
Do your own basic servicing and brakes and use eBay for a set of wheels with better tyres when you need 'em.
Use a back street garage with a good reputation.
Try and drive like you were painting a landscape.
Anything major goes, sell it as it stands and go find another bargain.
Use it as little as you need to, but enough to make it pay.
Try never to drive alone, find people who need to get to the supermarket now and then or into town and make it a paying deal.
I am trying to get down to a half dozen vehicles, when I make London my main base again I will just keep a van and a four wheel drive. We can only have two cars in London for our parking, so I am going to have to work out some proper off road parking somehow.
highlandsflyer
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Must be, quite amazing, how do the claims tally with the reality dude? My cous has a 330D and it is a great car, not so frugal though, but goes like stink. Still sounds like a taxi first thing though. 
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am still car less but will white van man as from tuesday
highlandsflyer
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Vans are the new cars.
If I was down to one vehicle, it would be the Sprinter.
Wish I could find a four wheel drive one at my kind of price.
If I was down to one vehicle, it would be the Sprinter.
Wish I could find a four wheel drive one at my kind of price.
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I rarely drive in London, just once or twice a week to take peeps to practise and to get the big shop in.
Public transport and footing and biking are much better options.
In the Highlands of Scotland, well it is a totally different story, very like Devon and Cornwall.
In an ideal world they would put decent cycle paths in everywhere, but the reality is that two thirds of the roads are unsafe for cycling.
Hope that changes in the future.
Public transport and footing and biking are much better options.
In the Highlands of Scotland, well it is a totally different story, very like Devon and Cornwall.
In an ideal world they would put decent cycle paths in everywhere, but the reality is that two thirds of the roads are unsafe for cycling.
Hope that changes in the future.
