Budget cars

[Barry]

Let's say things aren't going well for you but you need a car to commute to work, to go to the shop etc.

You have 5k dhs to spend on a car.

What would you buy and why?

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[Srikumar]

Buy a 1.3 lancer

[desertdude]

Put in a max cap of 5000 on the seach on dubizzle and many facebook car for sale groups ans watch in amazement what you can get for 5k for that amount nowadays in this tanking used car market.

I was just looking at This yesterday and sent the link to my friend so that why I have it handy. Slightly above budget but I bet you can beat him down to 5k easy. Single owner fully loaded reasinable kms with every bell and whistle and looks immaculate from inside and out

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5k goes a loooong looong ways nowadays.

Recently I was very tempted at a 1999 2dr Z71 blazer with factory fitted offroad package that includes a lift kit and uprated suspension 32 tyres and swing away rear mounted swingaway spare tyre carrier, asking 5k 

Would have made a great desert toy

Bump up to 20k and you can have almost anything you fancy

12 minutes ago, skumar83 said:

Buy a 1.3 lancer

Can get two of those and change left over for 5k

[Gaurav]

BMW 7 series is a money pit and don't even think of buying unless you have deep pockets or some special affinity for BMW badge or 7 series.

[Frederic]

Anything Japanese with some decent maintenance history would do imho. Although i love that 7 series but you need to buy that car as a hobby-car to fix up if you have the available budget and pockets.

Even some Kia or Hyundai might do the trick. I've seen plenty with high mileage that run effortlessly.

Edited June 21, 2018 by Frederic Nuyttens

[shadow79]

5k is good money if hooked at the right place there are many cars you can get for that price first being the knuckle head camry from 98 to 2001 

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its a strong car have one running with us for more then a decade..its a iron block engine does not die easily. parts are very easy to get...

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then there is a dodge durango from 98 to 04 is a 8 cyl elephant has a hami engine is sure a strong sturdy car one of my customers has one of these cars he sold it and the next one sold it to another all along with my shop address for service and arranging its parts too had to run around a bit until i found a guy shj who would stock these cars

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then you can get beetle above 2k model the interior in this car is just ready to break if you touch it like the glove box center console and the door panels those are bit hard to find specially of matching colors hell who cares you said it just has to move from a to b and i guess it fits the criteria nicely other than that the mechanical section parts are available and 1 thing is crazy in this car the driver side window regulator is expensive than the passenger side one go figure...

you also can get your hands on corolla 93 to 2001 at his range or less and those car run great with great mileage and parts are available almost everywhere

you can also get nissan sunny 95 to 2005 for this range and up to 2k they are very strong cars after that its just a money pit

you can also get altima 03 to 06 or 07 but those cars are also unreliable easily shot and also the interior problems with them sucks big time

then there is the mitsubishi magna and galant which are just always waiting for parts but

the lancer is a different story its a good car has good mileage no use flooring it as it is not a sporty jock as compared to others in this range class but will just run nicely...parts are pretty strong and they last

guess that should be enough for now

Edited June 21, 2018 by shadow79
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[desertdude]

Just because its budget, doesnt have to be boring, specially nowadays, thats my motto at least.

[Gaurav]

My colleague bought early 2000 model BMW 745 last year for 13k and in less than a year, he spent 17k on top.

Budget do mean cheap to buy and run.

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[desertdude]

That part I agree with"Bmw engineering" is highly overrated as me myself and sorta suffering with it myself. 

Mercedes on the other hand anything pre 2000 is pretty much solid, specially if you can get your hand on a early 90s 190E That thing is built like a tank and will outlast any jap crap. 

Another buddy has a 97 E320 and S320 both over 300,000kms and has them from new and they look and drive just like new. 

[shadow79]

that so called jap crap will take you from A to B beautifully 

how many 190e you seeing at the streets and how many corolla from even br that era you see on the streets..?

 

Edited June 21, 2018 by shadow79
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