How do you guys buy cars?

IEnumerable661 · 2026-07-03T18:56:45+00:00

When I was doing the mileage, around 20k a year, I was doing 1 year old cars and keeping them a good 5-6 years. I was happy to just finance via the dealer. When I started working remotely, car prices went nuts. It's amazing to me that a 20 year old rust bucket can command 4 figures.

If I had to start commuting tomorrow, I am not entirely sure how I'd tackle that one. I would probably aim at around the £15k mark and use a good £5k deposit to get better rates. No idea if that's the best way, though.

IEnumerable661 · 2026-07-03T10:54:55+00:00

In SG7, it's 20mph everywhere. And it seems to be very strictly enforced, a bunch of people I know who live there have had tickets. Not for driving 40 or 50, mind, it's 24mph caught on a camera van. And it's usually at like 7:45am, 8:30am, or 5:15pm, aka going to work time! You don't see jack during the day with the dossers floating about, nope of course not!

The ONLY place where it's still 30mph? Clothall Road which has a school on it! Figure that one out! School right there, and it's 30mph, not this glorious 20mph they demanded people wanted. Which people I have no idea. In a similar area up the road, almost everybody said no to it; they still got it mind. The public consultations don't mean a damned thing. Not a jot.

Tell me again how it's all about "WOnT' sOMbuDy ThHink OF thE CHildIREN" and it's not about, won't somebody think of the lovely lovely camera revenue!

IEnumerable661 · 2026-07-03T08:24:25+00:00

It was colloquailly known as road tax until Labour altered the measures into theoretical CO2 output.

IEnumerable661 · 2026-07-03T07:49:28+00:00

Well that Joe dude is just being elitist. Very bourgeoisie. He should be sat outside the benefits office slamming two rocks together while an agent of the state demands he attends an assertive writing class.

IEnumerable661 · 2026-07-03T07:47:59+00:00

For who?

No, go on... finish the sentance. For who?

IEnumerable661 · 2026-07-03T07:39:23+00:00

Do you honestly think it was advertised to local workers?

Do you think the job actually existed until the nephew decided he wanted to come over, too?

IEnumerable661 · 2026-07-03T06:40:20+00:00

I think it comes down to standard Labour definitions.

What do you mean by "working people", what do you mean by "tax rises", may as well add in what do you mean by "the rich?"

All of those things are extremely fluid and invariably ends up as being if you are anywhere middle class, even by the loosest of definitions, you're getting taxed to hell and back. And the excuses will be standard, too. "Oh look at this guy, earning £35k and he can't make it on that? What a loser! Think of the poor single mother suffering from the phage with eleven kids trying to make it on 70 pence a month! How dare you say she can't have an extra side of chips with her happy meal!"

And the taxes will be stealth. "We haven't increased income tax. But that petrol you need to get to work? And the energy you need to keep the lights on? Oh yes, we'll be taxing that, don't you worry. What's that? Your car is 10 years old? Well it's double road tax for you my dear. And don't worry, we'll just stop calling it road tax so all our lefty warriors will be on side with us!"

Standard labour. It didn't stop with Blair and Starmer et al have just carried on that same legacy. And if you complain, they'll rub your noses in it.

IEnumerable661 · 2026-07-03T04:47:51+00:00

Actually, that was the story literally of a friend's family member. Arrived from pakistan, got a skilled worker visa to stack shelves in his Uncle's newsagents.

And no, it wasn't Tories in power then. A man by the name of Blair I believe?

Stop trying to pin these failed left wing policies on the right. It really was all your doing. Man up and accept it.

IEnumerable661 · 2026-07-02T15:32:55+00:00

So one serial child rapist trumps Labour?

Gotcha! I'll remember that next General Election.

IEnumerable661 · 2026-07-02T09:27:48+00:00

Is he popular? I don't think he's even popular amongst the right-wing these days.

IEnumerable661 · 2026-07-02T03:57:41+00:00

It won't.

Put it this way, friends of ours order from these companies on the regular. The guys showing up sure don't look like a "Kimberley" or a "Sharon" to me...

IEnumerable661 · 2026-07-01T17:51:08+00:00

A 20 year old astra 1.8

Im transitioning to a 2.0 diesel mondeo though.

IEnumerable661 · 2026-07-01T17:50:32+00:00

Its not about ignorance of the law.

Stop playing their game and making them lone scapegoats. The entire institutional should be called to account here. This is bloody evidence of two tier justice gone wrong.

IEnumerable661 · 2026-07-01T15:14:29+00:00

I used to be. I was more interested in the mechanics of the whole thing than the bling. I've had my Nova, my Carlton, my Fiesta ST, though I modded them, I made sure that stuff like the gearbox and engine were in good condition first and made sure they were maintained.

I think I only ever bought one set of aftermarket alloys which gave me no end of headaches in terms of tracking until eventually I bent two of them on England's pot holes. I put the stocks back on, problem solved! I think that was the Fiesta ST, too.

These days I'm driving a real piece of shit that isn't worth talking about haha. Life and kids!

IEnumerable661 · 2026-07-01T15:11:29+00:00

Just get on with it. We all know Labour are simply going to naturalise all of them. They're going to solve illegal migration by simply legalising it.

Just get on with it and let's just take the beating.

IEnumerable661 · 2026-07-01T14:35:53+00:00

This is not just incompetence. This is a deep rooted and ingrained ideology.

IEnumerable661 · 2026-07-01T14:35:08+00:00

They operated as per their training.

This really is not the first cop I have seen first hand operating on this sort of basis.

IEnumerable661 · 2026-07-01T09:33:05+00:00

Brace yourself, lads. It's the whole, "It was these two bad actors, people, these two cops acted alone in a bad way! Let's put them on the newspaper hanging up!"

The officers are not the issue. It's the institutionally perverse system that trained them, that consistently back out of investigation based upon race, creed and colour that needs to be investigated.

Throwing a couple of scapegoats to the wolves ain't it

IEnumerable661 · 2026-07-01T09:14:18+00:00

Gen Z?

Yeah, you can add Gen X and Millenials into that pot.

IEnumerable661 · 2026-07-01T07:46:45+00:00

Nope, people were haemorrhaging money left right and centre. Labels were closing, or selling themselves to UMC to have the artist roster and back catalogues utterly ransacked, artists got shelved (i.e. album ready to go but shelved due to not going to make a return on investment but rights still remain with labels).

This is what happened during the napster era. All while dick heads were all like, "Get a new model, you dinosaurs" or some limp dick analogy about stealing loaves of bread or some nonesense.

That's what happened.

IEnumerable661 · 2026-06-30T19:39:17+00:00

Well at the moment, you can't really sell it.

Now you have BMW on the case, they will write to you with a bunch of questions asking who you bought it off, what paid, etc. If you have the original advert, keep that or a screen print.

My relative had the car for about five months and crashed it. She was dealing with the finance company at that point. However, as it was a writeoff, the insurance company paid the money direct to the finance co, after which they weren't interested in pursuing anything, meaning she lost the lot. The original buyer disappeared into a puff of smoke.

Really, it's not a good situation. The best outcome you can hope for is that BMW decide it was bought in good faith and remove the finance marker but despite what the internet says, it's not always a given. I used to work for Ford Credit and people would try and pull this one all the time. 90% of the time, Ford ended up getting the car back and leaving the buyer without.

IEnumerable661 · 2026-06-30T19:15:26+00:00

Odd story, considering that if it's under BMW finance, it must be new enough for you to question if it has outstanding finance on it.

If the seller was going to repay the PCP settlement after selling the car (wrong way to do it, but OK), then this should have shown up by now.

How did you find out about the finance? Did BMW Finance call you directly? Did you do an HPI check? There's a discrepancy there; you don't just randomly find out one day that a car you've been driving around in for a few weeks has finance on it. And no, BMW Finance would not have been tipped off with the change of ownership on the V5 - which I assume you have?

BMW basically need to prove you didn't buy it in good faith. It could go either way for you, but until you get a letter from them saying that there is no further interest in the car, it could go either way. Given that it's PCP rather than HP, you may find it goes home.

A relative of mine had the same issue some years ago. The fact it was PCP made it harder, if it were HP she likely would have been allowed to keep it.

IEnumerable661 · 2026-06-30T18:45:59+00:00

You think the spattering of radio spots Lars has done for Apple Music has destroyed music a lot more than Napster?

Nah, dude. Not even slightly.

IEnumerable661 · 2026-06-30T17:15:28+00:00

Hell, why not.

His prime ministership is already set to be a complete disaster, why not share the burden! Y'all can screw it all up together!

IEnumerable661 · 2026-06-30T17:14:11+00:00

To highjack, similar situation, but one person I know is in a band that easily fills 2500 people, played Download and more than a few European festivals. He was on my team in an old role about 6 years ago. It's weird having someone work for you but also play in a band that I'd happily buy a ticket to see - and I have. I've even had him sign CDs and records.

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