Possible New Employment - what do I do with the G4?
Keep it and rack up the miles?
7%
7%
[4]
Keep it and get a cheap company eurobox with the car allowance for work?
52%
52%
[27]
Flog it, get a luxury barge with the car allowance and buy a Def90 for play?
9%
9%
[5]
Get a Prius?
9%
9%
[5]
Get a company TDV6 D3 and rack up the miles on that.
19%
19%
[10]
Total Votes: 51
hernan1304
Member Since: 28 Feb 2008
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Luxury barge + Defender 90 = 8)
Getting a cheap car just to keep your G4 for weekends means that you'll be suffering (or just not as happy as you could be) all week. A barely-gets-enough-use G4 parked at home is not worth suffering 35k miles a year IMHO.
OK so general view is keep it, and get a cheap car for the week. Sounds good in principle, but I need to assess whether I can get the right kit on a cheap eurobox, as the D3 has now spoiled me (I like electric everything, satnav, HK audio etc ).
The other thing is whether the outstanding finance on it is worth it if I only run it every other weekend
Getting a valuation done on it, but I may just keep it for the first year and rack up the miles and save the car allowance, and then go for a new D3/RRS after that, but private lease - then at least I can get it muddy and I don't care what the boss says Monday!!!
Decisions, decisions.......Craig
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Craig, I think you're on the lines to the right choice of keeping it & using it. Bodsys Brake Bible
i would keep it and get an a6 or 5 series used i ran the a6 for a week and it was nice last year. or get a used m32005 SE-7 BLUE
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9th Jul 2008 2:57 am
ronp
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gilmore wrote:
Keep the G4. LPG conversion it. That will pay for itself in less than a year. Then you're quids in.
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rob
Do exactlty as Rob says - and add this option to the poll!!!
I converted a car around 5 years ago and it paid for itself within 10 months.
That way you'll get to experience all the luxuries of the G4 whilst still wearing your
AND, you'll reap the benefit when you come to sell, cos it'll be a more attractive proposition over a standard G4 cos of the economy.
this is a pic of a LPG converted G4 I took at the Driffield show.
[enlarge pic, look closely for the filler and underslung tank.]
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9th Jul 2008 9:15 am
IKke
Member Since: 29 Apr 2008
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Current plan is option 2, waiting from a load of quotes from the leasing company before I narrow down the choice, but it looks like it is going to be between things such as Focus CC, Astra TT, MX5, Mini Cooper....
Any other suggestions?Craig
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4th Aug 2008 9:27 am
John C
Member Since: 28 Aug 2007
Location: East Yorkshire
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Mondeo? Seriously nice car for the money.2020 SDV6 D5 HSE, Carpathian Grey +
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Previously : 2005 TDV6 SE Auto, Cairns Blue (288K) - ours for 16 years
Lease for a Ghia/Titanium probably too much, and I don't need the space during the week. I am considering a 3 dr focus as well as the CC - new Fiesta may well have been an option but not available in time.
Because I don't need the space, I seriously looked at Smarts, 107/C1/Aygo's etc, but I don't fancy doing 30k miles a year in them, would end up driving the D3 most days.Craig
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4th Aug 2008 12:15 pm
IKke
Member Since: 29 Apr 2008
Location: Brabant
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AHHHHHHHH! just got the car list through all VW, plus MB and bigger BMW's and Renault (????) and Hybrids from honda and Toyota - seems to be a no convertible policy as well.
So now stuck with A3, Golf, Fabia, Merc CLC, Megane or Leon, (but strangley no 1-series or any MB smaller than a C-Class?) unless I can get some other arrangement - none were on my list originally.
No Ford/Vauxhall/Nissan etc.
And Scirocco isn't on there yetCraig
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5th Aug 2008 1:38 pm
John C
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5th Aug 2008 1:46 pm
hernan1304
Member Since: 28 Feb 2008
Location: Dubai
Posts: 490
CLC would probably be the most comfortable (which is what matters in your case IMO).
Oh well after all the angst and poring over specifications on the web into the small hours, the decision has actually become quite simple.
The new job is at a senior level with a very generous car allowance. Their rules are that I can trade up 1 group at my own cost, or down 1 group and get £100 cash back. I am not allowed to trade down any further and get a cheaper car, even though they will not give me any more cashback. The reality is they are probably expecting me to take an A6/5 series/e-class, and don't understand I might want somthing different.
They also restrict the list to VAG, MB, BMW, Renault or the Hybrids, no convertibles, no 4 wheel drives (not even softroaders) and then to top it all emissions must be less than 190g/km and Combined Cyle MPG official figure of more than 38mpg.
Given all those rules, the cheapest car I am allowed is a Diesel mid spec golf. When doing the sums it really becomes a no brainer and the likley choice is.......
a Prius
The 10% BIK tax rate just makes it so cheap
So apologies to Blue Meanie and all others I dissed earlier, it appears I may well be in the unique positions (at least for this forum) of driving a car that will destroy the planet and driving one that might save it - I think we might have a new poll to see which one you think is which Craig
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8th Aug 2008 12:56 pm
CFB
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Perfect combination, cheap (almost free) company Prius and a V8 Disco 3 for the weekend , love it 2020 BMW X1 18d XDrive X-Line Auto
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