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| Thread ID: 64710 | 2005-12-24 04:00:00 | Buying a used Car - Galant vs Primera | Fergie (6508) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 415436 | 2005-12-24 08:49:00 | In my experience the Nissan engines are fairly bulletproof. Wife has a 97 Bluebird that just keeps going, costs next to nothing to run and hasn't given us any mechanical issues. | Jester (13) | ||
| 415437 | 2005-12-24 09:45:00 | My mate see's about 2 Toyotas a year for overhaul in his transmission shop and they are generally high milage taxis. As someone has mentioned stay away from anything with a cvt trans in it as they are very expensive no matter what make they are. while on the subject my parents have just brought themselves their first brand new car a Toyota Yaris at a nice price of $16,500 thats $3000 grant off retail price thanks to a bit of haggling from my brother. Lesson don't take the sticker price |
plod (107) | ||
| 415438 | 2005-12-25 04:47:00 | You are wanting an economical car, yet you are looking at automatics in the 1.8-2L range? It would be more economical to look at 1.6L and under manuals. My :2cents: which is probably worth 0.5c considering my knowledge of cars :p But there are no NICE 1.3L (or even less) cars. I'm looking for 1.5L to 2L personally. There isn't a significant difference in economy between <2L 4 cylinder cars in my experience, but anything under 1.5L ends up doing 5000rpm to get up hills. |
george12 (7) | ||
| 415439 | 2005-12-25 08:55:00 | But there are no NICE 1.3L (or even less) cars. I'm looking for 1.5L to 2L personally. There isn't a significant difference in economy between <2L 4 cylinder cars in my experience, but anything under 1.5L ends up doing 5000rpm to get up hills. Yea thats sorta why i was after a reliable/cheap 1.8L(ish) But i've settled on this primera, gonna organise a AA check - if all is well then it'll be mine! anyone no what speaker sizes the 96 primeras take? front and rear, Cheers |
Fergie (6508) | ||
| 415440 | 2005-12-25 21:59:00 | I love my Primera - excellent choice you have made Fergie :thumbs: Misty |
Misty (368) | ||
| 415441 | 2005-12-26 01:14:00 | Don't touch a mitsubishi. engine, transmission & electrical faults. I spend a lot of time on the road, and have noticed for some time that smoke ahead = Mitsubishi. The only exceptions are thrashed-out boy-racer Hondas and 1980's Ford Lasers. For some strange reason the host Mazda 323 version doesn't seem to have the same problem. Does your Mitsi experience extand to explaining why they burn oil so badly Phil? Cheers Billy *<8-{E |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 415442 | 2005-12-26 02:04:00 | I take it you are a young person, so you will not get a heart attack and drop dead when you find out the hidden costs. Call Repco and price the brake pads/drums, oil/air/fuel filters, cooling hoses, hubs, plugs, battery, cv-joints (anything else, anyone?). Call a good mechanic and price a full tune-up. Call your friendly insurance company and get a quote for 3rd-party fire and theft. Also have a look at the LTSA crash testing site (www.ltsa.govt.nz). Mitsubishi did make engines with soft heads, where the valve seats wore away quite quickly, leading to smoky engines. Mitsubushi admitted this when asked why they did not promote the use of LPG in their vehicles. But that was long ago (mid-80's?). They seem to make very good cars now. As always though, Toyotas are hard to beat. Domestic Corollas (1.6) and Coronas (1.8 - 2.0) are good cars. Imported Primeras and Galants may have very expensive parts - if Repco don't stock the parts, forget it. |
vinref (6194) | ||
| 415443 | 2005-12-26 03:05:00 | Yep, Toyota's are the only thing to buy if want reliability. Mitsi's are about as durable as an iceberg in the Sahara!!! |
rmcb (164) | ||
| 415444 | 2005-12-26 03:32:00 | lol you will never get any decent advice in this thread, everyone has there own preferences. Even mechanics have different preferences to brands and models of cars. I advise a Panzer tank as they are extremely reliable and have the ability of driving over all the vehicles mentioned here!, and will probably be faster than most of the toymotas, I mean Toyota's :P |
Battleneter (60) | ||
| 415445 | 2005-12-26 04:28:00 | Lol. Well the guys taking it into the AA this week, so if all goes well it'll be mine next week :D Yea i no there'll be more costs - but i've still got a month or 2 of work left and this is my last major purchase, so should be all good. But i've heard that the AA check is pretty intense, and if theres anything that needs done they'll let ya no. Still no one knows what size speakers they hold?? Misty - do you no? |
Fergie (6508) | ||
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