Your last occasion: a shot in the rose, or the cat in the bag?

Posted on 25-10-2013 at 18:19 by sir_smokalot – 140 Comments”

There are not a lot of good reasons to get a car new to buy, but the warranty that you get is one, especially if you assume that half of all sold used cars within 10,000 miles with the problems it faces.

With the purchase of a car or engine, you can technical knowledge to purchase a part of the distress flare, but a large part of the reliability is also depending on luck. Where one swears by the degeljikheid of the brand that he is driving, the other nothing but problems, and vice versa.

Cargarantie looked at almost 600,000 elapsed occasiongaranties and more than 325.000 extended warranties on new cars, and came on the basis of the data here came from roles to the conclusion that the largest part of the reparatiegevallen (a third of all used cars) the first five thousand kilometres after purchase of a used car occur. More than half of all used cars within 10,000 km in the garage.

Of course, this does not the data of cars from private sales, and people who own their car to tinker (or black, do) taken into account, but it gives nevertheless a good impression. On average, we give 497 euro per year on maintenance. Many common ailments are the ‘wires and snakes’, the electronics (20,6%), fuel system (20%), electrical accessories (10,9%) and the motor (8,8%). (via Automotive Workshop)

We would like to make use of our extensive hinterland, and therefore we convert virtual chat line back on. What faults did you get within 10,000 km of your laatstgekochte occasion, or it ran like a charm?

I’d like to kick: my 12 year old Seat received in this period to do with a leaky benzineslang and a broken tussendemper. This happened between the ages of 55 and 65,000 km on the clock.

Photo: Danny de Vito as a dishonest car salesman, the film adaptation of Roald dahl’s ‘Mathilda’