Looking at buying a new car

[kingtreelo]

ended up with a courtesy car, one of the brand new electric Capris

Lovely on the inside, nice from the side and back, but boy did someone drop the ball on the front of this car, feels like a proper downgrade on my Mustang though, just doesnt have all the extra premium features, its a little bit plasticky on the inside, not got proper buttons, the screen is worse..but...one feature it does have that i love is you can set ambient lights inside the vehicle and it looks awesome whilst driving in the dark, its very subtle but makes a big difference

all in all, good spoilt by a terrible design choice for the front end

 

[John Bennett]

To me the Capri looks like they came up a decent looking car - you can even see a bit of homage to the old coupe (which was never that pretty),
...then they ruined it by sticking it on stilts and stretching it vertically to make it into an SUV.

 

[kingtreelo]

its a big car inside, i would buy one if it wasnt that ugly from the front, it looks terrible

 

[TheDaddy]

Its looks nice , Personally I hate the fact they call it a capri but looks absolutely nothing like the original. Just call it something else ? If it looked like it but modernised then all good IMO. Its like a sausage roll thats a ' No Meat ' sausage roll !!! Why call it a sausage roll its not , same with no beef beef burgers and things. Just name them something sodding different.



Sorry if i sound miserable , Its because I am !

Dave.

 

[kingtreelo]

Its looks nice , Personally I hate the fact they call it a capri but looks absolutely nothing like the original. Just call it something else ? If it looked like it but modernised then all good IMO. Its like a sausage roll thats a ' No Meat ' sausage roll !!! Why call it a sausage roll its not , same with no beef beef burgers and things. Just name them something sodding different.

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Sorry if i sound miserable , Its because I am !

Dave.

not at all, we all like different things for different reasons, in that colour it doesnt actually look too bad, ill try and take some photos of the one i have tomorrow, it isnt the worst looking car in the world, i think it could have been a lot nicer though, maybe my Mustang bias is kicking in

 

[John Bennett]

If you could imagine it without the black plastic section, so it's 20cm closer to the ground, it would look pretty good (if not an SUV).

 

[patloz]

Ford were doing a deal recently for a Puma Gen-E £139 deposit £139 a month for 24 months, they will also fit a home fast charger for £480 all in.

Don't see deals like that very often.

 

[pooman2084]

I just got my Polestar serviced for the first time at 18 months, 18.000 miles.

Brake pads were 5% worn front and 10% back! I’d been through a set already at this mileage in my V40. Wycombe is just hills, hills, hills.

 

[patloz]

I just got my Polestar serviced for the first time at 18 months, 18.000 miles.

Brake pads were 5% worn front and 10% back! I’d been through a set already at this mileage in my V40. Wycombe is just hills, hills, hills.

You will likely end up changing the discs before the pads wear out, the inner face of th discs corrode due to lack of use and water ingress long before most drivers wear them out on EV's

 

[kingtreelo]

Ford were doing a deal recently for a Puma Gen-E £139 deposit £139 a month for 24 months, they will also fit a home fast charger for £480 all in.

Don't see deals like that very often.

yeah, i nearly got one of them but lease deals are not for me at all, i like to have a product at the end of a purchase, it was a very good deal though for anyone in the market for one, i suspect we will be seeing every other car being a Puma in the next few months though, which also put me off

 

[John Bennett]

I was quoted £530 for the first (2-year) service on the I.D. Buzz last week. This is literally an inspection and a pollen filter.
I nearly choked, especially as the week before, I'd paid £460 for a pair of front tyres (rears are even more).

I rang a second garage and it turns out the first 4 services are free (an official VW thing). Needless to say I took some pleasure in cancelling on the first place and explaining why

 

[kingtreelo]

I was quoted £530 for the first (2-year) service on the I.D. Buzz last week. This is literally an inspection and a pollen filter.
I nearly choked, especially as the week before, I'd paid £460 for a pair of front tyres (rears are even more).

I rang a second garage and it turns out the first 4 services are free (an official VW thing). Needless to say I took some pleasure in cancelling on the first place and explaining why

cars are just expensive things to run these days, i was driving round Europe a few weeks ago and turned into a service station and a tyre blew, i was absolutely made up that it only cost me £190 to get a new tyre at 2 hours notice

think a lot of us are just old and remember when it was 10p to get on the bus and stuff cost a lot mess, my kids laugh at me all the time when i tell them i used to get a portion of chips for 50p

 

[John Bennett]

I think it's because many wheels are a combination of low-profile, extra wide, heavy duty and run-flats.
A decent tyre was about £80 on the little old Golf the other week

I'd mind less if I didn't get a puncture on a car every few months on the expensive cars.

 

[kingtreelo]

I think it's because many wheels are a combination of low-profile, extra wide, heavy duty and run-flats.
A decent tyre was about £80 on the little old Golf the other week

I'd mind less if I didn't get a puncture on a car every few months on the expensive cars.

are rrun flats still a thing, i remember people with BMWs banging on about them, but there was literally no benefit i could see, but yeah, my wife works in an industrial estate and the last 19" low profile tyres...i reckon i went through 8 of them in 3 years at a disgraceful amount per tyre

my current car....fingers crossed, not a single tyre replacement yet, just rear ended

 

[patloz]

yeah, i nearly got one of them but lease deals are not for me at all, i like to have a product at the end of a purchase, it was a very good deal though for anyone in the market for one, i suspect we will be seeing every other car being a Puma in the next few months though, which also put me off

In the EV market the last thing you need is to have any liability for its residual value at any point in a finance agreement, a PCP is ok as you can ( and will ) hand it back at the end of the agreement as none are currently worth close to the agreed final balance.

 

[John Bennett]

are rrun flats still a thing, i remember people with BMWs banging on about them, but there was literally no benefit i could see, but yeah, my wife works in an industrial estate and the last 19" low profile tyres...i reckon i went through 8 of them in 3 years at a disgraceful amount per tyre

Yeah, the Buzz has these

EcoContact 6

Take performance further in any weather. EcoContact 6 delivers low noise, high comfort, durable mileage, confident wet braking and fuel‑saving low rolling resistance.

www.continental-tyres.co.uk

Means they don't even need to give you an electric inflation pump and a can of glue - there's literally nothing.
They work alright from what I found, the only obvious downside is not all manufacturers allow theirs to be repaired and many tyre places won't touch them.

But you can't plug normal tyres either if it's near the sidewall (or they're the ultra-high speed ratings).

 

[patloz]

Yeah, the Buzz has these

EcoContact 6

Take performance further in any weather. EcoContact 6 delivers low noise, high comfort, durable mileage, confident wet braking and fuel‑saving low rolling resistance.

www.continental-tyres.co.uk

Means they don't even need to give you an electric inflation pump and a can of glue - there's literally nothing.
They work alright from what I found, the only obvious downside is not all manufacturers allow theirs to be repaired and many tyre places won't touch them.

But you can't plug normal tyres either if it's near the sidewall (or they're the ultra-high speed ratings).

Biggest downside is they are often double the price of standard tyres, hardly any "budget" manufacturers make them, they als give a harder ride due to the solid sidewalls.

If I Have to fit two or more on a car I tend to fit 4 standard tyres and throw a pump up kit in the boot.

The techs also hate them as they are a real twat to fit over normal tyres.

 

[John Bennett]

Biggest downside is they are often double the price of standard tyres, hardly any "budget" manufacturers make them, they als give a harder ride due to the solid sidewalls.

With the Buzz, pretty much all the well known brands were around £200 a tyre, which didn't seem too outrageous for extra-load 235/50/R20's (still 30% cheaper than the silly tyres on the 508 PSE), so I didn't feel too much run-flat premium. I'm never brave enough to chance budget tyres, especially in a 2.2 tonne rear-wheel drive van.

 

[kingtreelo]

my last car, a focus, the tyres were about £120 a piece, i doubt they were run flats

 

[John Bennett]

Sounds about right for the size and ratings they'll be for the more sensible versions.

With the last couple of cars I've worked on for friends, they'd have had no hope with a spare tyre kit anyway as idiotic garages had windy-gunned the wheel nuts up to about 400Nm!!