$6000 Budget for car, what would you buy?
Apr 4th 2010, 10:20 am
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Apr 4th 2010, 10:57 am
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Re: $6000 Budget for car, what would you buy?
It is covered in dust, and with mould inside from the crossing, but the panelwork is spotless after a respray.
The wharfies in Melbourne damaged the fuel lines with their forklifts..bit of work to get it running, and like flushing the toilet every time you put your foot down.
Apr 4th 2010, 11:08 am
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Re: $6000 Budget for car, what would you buy?
Hey a mate of mine just imported a 1970 2 door Lincoln ~7000cc v8 from California, bought unseen off Ebay. Perhaps 2000 bucks.
It is covered in dust, and with mould inside from the crossing, but the panelwork is spotless after a respray.
The wharfies in Melbourne damaged the fuel lines with their forklifts..bit of work to get it running, and like flushing the toilet every time you put your foot down.
It is covered in dust, and with mould inside from the crossing, but the panelwork is spotless after a respray.
The wharfies in Melbourne damaged the fuel lines with their forklifts..bit of work to get it running, and like flushing the toilet every time you put your foot down.
Apr 4th 2010, 11:11 am
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Re: $6000 Budget for car, what would you buy?
Flat battery maybe. Loss of fuid from somewhere maybe. A belt slipping p'chance.
Apr 4th 2010, 11:24 am
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Re: $6000 Budget for car, what would you buy?
Apr 4th 2010, 10:40 pm
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Re: $6000 Budget for car, what would you buy?
slightly off topic but... I'm planning on moving to Aus to get a graduate geology job and I will obviously need some transport when I get there. What sort of price is a bog standard car just to get me from A to B going to set me back roughly?
Apr 4th 2010, 11:25 pm
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Re: $6000 Budget for car, what would you buy?
3k gets you somthing useable. I tried for less and came unstuck!!
Apr 4th 2010, 11:42 pm
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Apr 5th 2010, 1:31 am
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Re: $6000 Budget for car, what would you buy?
. double post
Apr 5th 2010, 1:33 am
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Re: $6000 Budget for car, what would you buy?
I think you have to go Ford Falcon or Holden Commodore, on account of any potential repair costs, being so cheap.
Apr 5th 2010, 7:06 am
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Re: $6000 Budget for car, what would you buy?
lol
You will not feel any warm fuzzies towards your car!
I know, I bought one when we moved over. It has 350,000kms on the clock and runs like a dream...
The plan was to get a Discovery and we got this instead of a rental car for a few weeks and have now been driving it for almost a year without a hitch!
We just completed a 2000kms+ return trip to Sydney with no issues and a overall economy of over 11kms per litre...
Just my two bobs worth..
We still will get the Discovery and I dare say it'll be a whole lot less reliable but more versatile (we like to camp!!)
Apr 5th 2010, 7:49 am
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Re: $6000 Budget for car, what would you buy?
Used cars are a ridiculous price here.....people will pay silly money for any old crap.
We ended up buying two new ones simply because we did not think it worthwhile buying second hand.
We ended up buying two new ones simply because we did not think it worthwhile buying second hand.
Apr 5th 2010, 10:20 am
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Re: $6000 Budget for car, what would you buy?
They are actually quite difficult to give up once you've owned one. Feel like they are capable of anything. Pretty horrible running costs around town though... although all that space once again is hard to give up. Damn cheap to fix, dont go wrong often either.
I think you have to go Ford Falcon or Holden Commodore, on account of any potential repair costs, being so cheap.
I think you have to go Ford Falcon or Holden Commodore, on account of any potential repair costs, being so cheap.
If I was given a brand new Ford or Commodore I would not be griping about it that's for sure. I wouldn't buy one now - probably a medium 4x4, or something like a 3-5 year old Kluger will be our next buy.
It's a common point, but don't want to pay 40k (60k?) plus for some of the models that interest us. So I'd rather pay 20k and allow someone else to pay the depreciation. Other people I know buy a 18k Lancer on runout or something else similar new but these cars are too small for us.
