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Never buy a European car, period, unless you are wealthy enough (like your parents) and can afford the frequent breakdowns. Except if it's a Volvo
What!? BMW and Audi are usually very reliable, it's the French manufacturers that tend to have problems over here.
My last car was an Audi and it was bullet proof, I never had a problem at all. It was just extremely boring! I've had to replace my tyres on my BMW, but that's it.
I will only buy German cars from now on, but then I haven't experienced any problems.
What!? BMW and Audi are usually very reliable, it's the French manufacturers that tend to have problems over here.
My last car was an Audi and it was bullet proof, I never had a problem at all. It was just extremely boring! I've had to replace my tyres on my BMW, but that's it.
I will only buy German cars from now on, but then I haven't experienced any problems.
Seems like Euro cars in Europe tend to be hit or miss. They're either really good or really bad. Euro cars here tend to be pretty bad. Almost always they require expensive repairs on the automatic transmission or bad engine sensors
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Well the last bill was £800. Then it broke doen again.
Its not worth it.
Like you say unless you are rich. Which we aren't.
Yep. Personally, if I wanted something that I know is reliable and holds it's value the best over the long run, I buy Japanese. A 10 year old Toyota with 100k miles on the odometer still fetches several grand here. European cars like that are expensive here, too, but they lost $30k of their value in 10 years, Japanese cars lost only $6-$7k over that time period and conditions. The oldest running cars on the road here (newer than 1990) almost always tend to be a Ford pickup truck or a small Toyota or Honda car
I actually feel that on this occasion your wrath is justified, a full week with perhaps no 20C days is crazy for this time of year. But being a cold lover I'm jealous of that forecast, while I recoil in horror at Perth's.
Here in Sh!tney we're still getting regular bouts of heat, yesterday was 39C in the outer west and today will complete a 3 day run of temps over 30C at this and most other locales. A massive fail whale from the Bureau today, we have already exceeded the forecast max of 27C before 10 AM local time.
Not to mention that any rain and storms are "fail whaling" off to the north, south, east and west. We'll be lucky if we get 10 mm from this upcoming "rain event", sigh. Meanwhile Smellbourne and HoFart get days of the liquid gold... this is the whinge thread is it not?
Seems like Euro cars in Europe tend to be hit or miss. They're either really good or really bad. Euro cars here tend to be pretty bad. Almost always they require expensive repairs on the automatic transmission or bad engine sensors
Yep. Personally, if I wanted something that I know is reliable and holds it's value the best over the long run, I buy Japanese. A 10 year old Toyota with 100k miles on the odometer still fetches several grand here. European cars like that are expensive here, too, but they lost $30k of their value in 10 years, Japanese cars lost only $6-$7k over that time period and conditions. The oldest running cars on the road here (newer than 1990) almost always tend to be a Ford pickup truck or a small Toyota or Honda car
Aye, well think she wants to replace it with a BMW. Bmws are better I think. Ours rarely break down in the past.
Just putting on my jumper on another cold and overcast Povember day.
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