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Reliability of 4/5 year old car?

mikeoc85 · 2024-07-17 12:07:39

Hi all, Apologies for the long post My wife and I are about to have 3 young children in car seats. We now need a larger car and have been sopping the market for the past 2 months. We had narrowed our search down to X5, VW All Space, Santa Fe or XC90 of the of cars we liked within our budget. We wanted all 3 baby seats to…

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#52 19-07-2024 7:21pm

Buddy Bubs

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Young lads will always buy a cheap old BMW or Merc or Audi so you still see a good few around proportional to how many they sell new each year.
I did it myself in my youth slowly building up to newer (but still used) models.
They all cause all sort of problems though.

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#53 19-07-2024 8:00pm

PukkaStukka

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We flogged my wife's 2014 CMax diesel recently which she'd had since a year old. Nothing, and I mean nothing gave trouble with it. Insanely reliable. She's taken on a Tuscon that was my brother's car and is a low miler. It's needed a door lock and a rear shock replaced (both known issues) but has otherwise been fine. Advice also given was to half the oil change intervals with it, which were doing. I think reliability nowadays does have much to do with how well a car is driven and maintained.

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