MisterTwo

www.carsales.com.au

www.carsguide.com.au

caleb2003

Jeez you weren't lying about used car prices, just looked on those sites and a 91km Zafira 4 years old was $20k, you wouldn't pay £3k or £4k for that uk.

Gjn200

The Barina is a piece of crap. It's not the new corsa, its a rebadged daewoo or something like that. The safety rating is really poor.

http://carsguide.news.com.au/story/0...003140,00.html

themerlin

Hi,

Best to buy a second hand car private as on honest dealer is hard to find.

And don't do into a dealers and say you have just moved here and don't know much about cars or they will take your wallet

We got 3 seats in our daewoo (not that I would recommend a daewoo).

Stephen Jones

Have a look at some of the KIA models. They come in all sizes and don't cause too much of a hole in your budget even when new.


Steve

JackTheLad

We got our car after using these guys:

http://www.discountnewcars.com.au/

you can cut the crap at the dealership, just show them the quote they offered online and say "are you going to meet that or what?"

JTL

brickies wife

When we had our twins, we had an escort and needed to have room in the back for our 12 year old as well, we shopped around and found two mama and papas care seats which were quite narrow and both seats fitted in the back with room for another in the middle and we only had an astra, so perhaps try shopping around for car seats which are safe but not as bulky. The car seats we bought lasted until our two were 5 or 6.

liver bird

oh no, crap, we've just bought one

and can't work out whether the three seats will fit across the second hand zafira now argh!

liver bird

thanks xxx

liver bird

thanks so much will have a look, can't believe I've just paid 15000 dollars for a second hand corsa x

liver bird

thanks for that, but we've already bought two mother's choice ones out here and they ahve to fit that baby capsule thing in which looks quite wide . Having such a nightmare. Loads of people in oz have three kids so god knows what they do! x

liver bird

ooh thanks !will have a look at that one x

themerlin

Don't get a Kia new. We got a 2004 kia RIO last year for 9k and it was as new with only 30k's on the clock.

stevemich

Just a word of warning RE the Zafira...
We have one (and generally very happy with it), and bought it on the fact you could have the 7 seats if required etc.

There is a design flaw, however, that if you have even one car seat in the middle bench seat, you will not be able to access the 2 rear seats at all. This is because the seatbelt holding in the car seat is taught and will therefore not allow the bench seat to slide forward at all.
Also, if you want to put either of the rear sets up it is a big job as you have to remove the child car seats in order to allow the bench seat to slide forward enough to raise them out of the floor.

Personally, I think we would go for a more typical people carrier type MPV if we were to have our time again.

We have two typical child seats in ours, and cannot see a third fitting in between... although more space saving "slimline" types are available, so that may work...

Good luck!!

Steve