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Re: Ouch !
Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2011 2:36 am
by Turks
I respect your decision but I don't think I could have done it. Not for a French car anyway.
Is it a spanker you have bought or second hand?
Turks.
Re: Ouch !
Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2011 2:45 pm
by bullethead
No unfortunately not new but fortunately only £9k. Bought from a dealer her indoors used to work for and she knows the previous (1) owner, is a driver at that garage.
Got all the extras, apart from engine size it's as spec'd as the "IS"
Re: Ouch !
Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2011 11:17 pm
by andym3
You trying to big it up mate, it's still only a Citroen!
Re: Ouch !
Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2011 2:59 am
by Turks
What will it be worth in say 3 years? and what would your E53 been worth in three years... Its something I find hard to get my head around, sell the car and get something cheaper to run - example that the new car will be worth £4500 in three years and the E53 probably would be around that mark too... meaning you have actually lost £2k in swapping vehicles - £2k is a lot of extra fuel.
Thats what I sold to my missus when she told me I should get something cheaper to run anyway
Turks.
Re: Ouch !
Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2011 7:14 pm
by bullethead
Oh in 3 years it'll worth sod all as she does 25k a year, but hopefully she'll get another new/ish or even a company car and i'll get the cast offs.
50-60 mpg significantly more than 18 being a major part of the decision.
Re: Ouch !
Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2011 7:38 pm
by X5Sport
Brave man, but I certainly could not have done that either. I thought long and hard about ditching the X5 after the gearbox failure and replacing it with a Skoda Superb Estate (had 3 Octavias before which were never any trouble). In the end I just could not find anything that came close to what the X offered so I bit the ammunition store (needed to be a lot more than a single bullet) and went and bought a new X6. Going back to a 50mpg car wold have been the sensible option, but I've been spoiled by having had the X and would have always been looking at others and wondering.
I think you will be back........
Re: Ouch !
Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2011 8:11 pm
by bullethead
Oh i'll miss so much of it, Boxster to X, X to C2. Now were back to the original thread title.....Ouch !
Ouch !
Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2011 8:50 pm
by Rusty
[quote=""bullethead""]Oh i'll miss so much of it, Boxster to X, X to C2. Now were back to the original thread title.....Ouch ![/quote]
Think positive, from here 'the only way is up' (to quote yazoo from '88)
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Re: Ouch !
Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2011 9:10 pm
by AW8
[quote=""rusty nail""] Think positive, from here 'the only way is up' (to quote yazoo from '88) [/quote]
Feel almost embarassed highlighting this but the aforemetioimned 1988 title was performed by "Yazz" or to be pedantic "Yazz & the Plastic Population"
Yazoo were Alison Moyet & Vince Clark, (the later formerly of early Depeche Mode).
Yes, I know...........I am a sad 80's throwback
Ouch !
Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2011 9:13 pm
by Rusty
[quote=""AW8""][quote=""rusty nail""] Think positive, from here 'the only way is up' (to quote yazoo from '88) [/quote]
Feel almost embarassed highlighting this but the aforemetioimned 1988 title was performed by "Yazz" or to be pedantic "Yazz & the Plastic Population"
Yazoo were Alison Moyet & Vince Clark
Yes, I know...........I am a sad 80's throwback
[/quote]
My bad, sorry. You're absolutely right. I knew what i meant, even got myself singing it Was the right year though wasn't it?
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Re: Ouch !
Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2011 9:16 pm
by X5Sport
Correct. 10 points. 1988 it was.
And I can't get the tune out of my head now either.....
Re: Ouch !
Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2011 9:30 pm
by andym3
I would find it very very hard to sell the X as it would be to hard to find another car that would even come close to the quality of the X!
Re: Ouch !
Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2011 4:57 pm
by bullethead
[quote=""andym3""]I would find it very very hard to sell the X as it would be to hard to find another car that would even come close to the quality of the X!
[/quote]
Wot, no reverse gear...Yeah It'll be hard to live with 1
Re: Ouch !
Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2011 11:32 pm
by andym3
[quote=""bullethead""][quote=""andym3""]I would find it very very hard to sell the X as it would be to hard to find another car that would even come close to the quality of the X!
[/quote]
Wot, no reverse gear...Yeah It'll be hard to live with 1
[/quote]
The car is in the garage as we speak so when I get it back I wont be having that problem!
Re: Ouch !
Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2011 10:02 am
by x555
[quote=""andym3""][quote=""bullethead""][quote=""andym3""]I would find it very very hard to sell the X as it would be to hard to find another car that would even come close to the quality of the X!
[/quote]
Wot, no reverse gear...Yeah It'll be hard to live with 1
[/quote]
The car is in the garage as we speak so when I get it back I wont be having that problem!
[/quote]
Is that the car that you were selling just the other week