My pension

[yelrow]

Can we include wives. Heathers Peugeot 205 under 200 kilomètres in last 2 years. Would have to check Speedo and Mot cert.

[sandy]

What is a Bus pass WTD.. They are mobile doctors surgeries.

One of the disadvantages of living in the middle of nowhere Sandy. We live on the edge of nowhere, plenty of buses.

You missed my point WTD there is no shortage of transport in the middle of nowhere as you put it. I have a lung condition which means if I contract covid it is curtains for me in the words of one doctor. So I avoid anywhere, where people are enclosed. Trains Buses Shops Ect: And always wear a marsk where people are ie: shops ect:. I dont need a law to tell me to do so. I just want to servive and my car helps me do that.

[sandy]

Is this a contest. Who drives more than anybody else.

We should have a contest to see who drives the least, I might have a chance then. I bought my X-Type in 2008 with over 12k miles on the clock. Current reading is just under 70k.

That is more of a fun idea TWD................. I had only done 600 miles when lockdown finnished.

[Walkingthedog]

Sandy the reason I said the middle of nowhere is because you said it was 20 miles from proper shops.

I know how you feel about bus travel. Luckily we have 4 buses an hour into town. As long as we don’t travel when the schools turn out it is OK.

[sandy]

O, I see what you mean WTD. That is not really true we could go into Carlisle which is about 8 miles down the M6. But I should have said Propper shops that My wife likes and that means Dumfries which is 20 miles the other way. Hope I have cleared that up, Sorry for misleading you. If I was bit younger we would be living in the back and beyound and I mean that. Countyside wonderful.

[Mountain Goat]

I drive 530 miles per week to commute to work. To say the petrol price increase is starting to bite hard is an understatement when 37mpg is the absolute best I can achieve, 90% of the mileage is on a motorway.

It’s an early 2001 car so £295 for tax, insurance is reasonable for its power output. Still wouldn’t sell it though, I really enjoy driving it, and car prices are laughable compared to what they were pre covid, even for ropey old junk.

Public transport for me is useless, three buses a day to my village all between 10am and 3pm.

I have not kept up with car prices much. I have a car I do not use that needs a few hundred pounds spending on it and I am wondering if it is worth doing up of taking a few parts off it for my other car (Same make and model but the diesel version) and scrapping it. It has been beaten up a bit but mechanically, once the exhaust and a few small parts are changed it should be fine. Is a little 3 cylinder car which is quite economical.

[Walkingthedog]

O, I see what you mean WTD. That is not really true we could go into Carlisle which is about 8 miles down the M6. But I should have said Propper shops that My wife likes and that means Dumfries which is 20 miles the other way. Hope I have cleared that up, Sorry for misleading you. If I was bit younger we would be living in the back and beyound and I mean that. Countyside wonderful.

As far as I am concerned proper shop are only required by my wife. When she says M&S my blood runs cold.

[sandy]

Same here.

[yelrow]

i was delighted when they shut the ones in france. Then Heather found they would happily post from uk. Her Peugot is 1993. Anybody running anything older?.

[Jsa274]

I drive 530 miles per week to commute to work. To say the petrol price increase is starting to bite hard is an understatement when 37mpg is the absolute best I can achieve, 90% of the mileage is on a motorway.

It’s an early 2001 car so £295 for tax, insurance is reasonable for its power output. Still wouldn’t sell it though, I really enjoy driving it, and car prices are laughable compared to what they were pre covid, even for ropey old junk.

Public transport for me is useless, three buses a day to my village all between 10am and 3pm.

I have not kept up with car prices much. I have a car I do not use that needs a few hundred pounds spending on it and I am wondering if it is worth doing up of taking a few parts off it for my other car (Same make and model but the diesel version) and scrapping it. It has been beaten up a bit but mechanically, once the exhaust and a few small parts are changed it should be fine. Is a little 3 cylinder car which is quite economical.

If you can (and are happy to) make do and mend what you have, it is much more cost effective than buying a car just now. With computer chip shortages caused by lockdowns since 2020, the auto industry has struggled to build cars globally. This has pushed up prices of new cars that can be made.

The consequence of this is the price of used cars has risen because those who couldn’t buy brand new buy nearly new, increasing demand where there isn’t enough supply. Those priced out of nearly new cars go for moderate budget, the increased demand pushed those prices up too, and so on until you get to the rusty undesirable jalopies that back street traders peddle for £2,000 when at any other time it’s a £500 chicken coop.

All the pent-up new car demand from 2020 and early 2021 has pushed prices to silly levels as well.

It’s the worst time to buy a new car anyway, but the chip shortages mean some cars are being built below spec but are not highlighted as such unless you really dig into the paperwork. For instance if a new car has a fancy electronic widget fitted as standard, there’s a chance that the manufacturer will have built it without that widget due to chip shortages and still sold it just to make the sale. This is a problem when in a few years all those cars trickle down into the used car market.

Where items are optional its a matter of checking the car regardless, but where it’s considered “standard” for that model trim the only way to tell is to physically check it’s there or hope the used car dealer is diligent/honest enough to check it.

Sorry, I’m rambling now.. In summary, keep your existing car is my advice.