Farewell Kids I Can't Do It Anymore, I've Got To Get Rid!

[SEAT]

Yeah thats right after 6 long months of ownership I'm parting company with my Ibiza. Its the car I have a love hate relationship with.
But it has broken down for the 3rd time in 7 days and I can't trust it anymore - with 3 unrelated problems, and a fault exhaust which is about to go.

But the finally straw as yesterday I was at Portland Roundabout (for you who know, in Stockport) and I was waiting at lights and silly bitch in a K reg astra tore around the corner and has smashed my back end in!
Needs about £2k of repair, insurance company is picking it up tomorrow, and it will be repaired, but not listed (THANK GOD!).

When it returns and the engine problem is fixed, I'm selling it. Any offers at £4300?
I'm the only one in the family with a problem with a VAG car and we have 8 at current and have had close to 30.

So I'm packing up and going to the darkside, getting either a 1.4 16v Clio Dynamique, 1.4 Fiesta Zetec 3 Door or buying my sisters now aging 97 Polo 1.4 CL that hasn't let her down since new with 115k on the clock as she is trading for a new MX5 or used CLK cab.

So farewell, thanks for all the advice. Sorry I never made it to the meets I only passed last friday. I just can't keep pouring money into it.

 

[davidol]

dont get the clio mate, im having a few problems with my ibiza at the moment but its ten times better than the clio i brought from new!

 

[Triple D]

Thats a shame mate, you must have just got a bad one of the bunch. Did you get any pics of the damage? bloody women drivers




Taxi

 

[SEAT]

Going more towards the Fiesta, brother in law bought a Clio which had problems. Know lots of peeps who have had fords and never had a problem - I will be back to buy a VAG when I'm prepared to spill or have £25k on a A3 V6. But not before.

 

[SEAT]

****ed side panel, bumper, and bent boot a bit!



Can't see alot of the damage in pics!

 

[Triple D]

Ouch allthough looking at the pics just a rear bumper and valance needed but like you said you cant see everything in the pics. Shame.

 

[Cupra Kid]

unlucky mate, out of the cars mentioned i would be leaning towards the polo, as awill be cheap to buy and run. But the fiesta 1.4 would be a close second, theya re immense fun to sling around corners and you can hammer them all day long and never seem to break.

 

[SEAT]

Polo has done so many miles now, and it needs to last me thru Uni (7 years) and a 8 year old 115k Polo won't. Sister is offering it me for just £500, but to be rust free and stay rust free it needs £700 of bodywork at which point it becomes uneconomical or a bodge job is £300.
Or a 2003 52 Fiesta 1.4 Zetec 3 Door with 45k (properly driven instead once a week to the shops like my car was driven) for £4300-4700.

 

[Cupra Kid]

If you got the money then go for the fezza, but that itself will be old when you done uni and will have some big services while your there. You may get through on two £500 cars at uni if your not gonna be using them much, let it rot if its just arches like my mums they should last a while , hers have been gone for two years and its just passed its mot again. If the cars only worth £500 then a bodge job by yourself with some spray paint and filler may be a good option if your handy at these things. i kept my £400 '88 polo on the road for three years with bodywork bodge jobs and rolled it upto a showroom when the end was near and traded her in for £300

I guess if your living at uni in a big city do you even need a car. Questions i asked myself when i went, i am now in my final year and if i had lived there i couldnt of afforded the cars. Had to stay at home and work P/T to keep them in petrol and services.

My 2p's worth like, doesnt mean its right.

 

[SEAT]

Thats perfectly valid point, but need to get back easily and Newcastle to Manchester isn't a great train journey, fortunately I will be in quite a good (for a student) financial position when I'm at Uni.

But I haven't worked as hard as I have to drive banger, (not being a snob) but I always wanted a nice first car and I have worked so hard for the money and I love cars so much. Since I was knee-high to a grass hopper (as the gran would say) I have always wanted a car. And feel very fortunate to be in the postion I'm in and I'm gonna take advantage.

If I was to buy a banger, I don't think I would buy my sisters I think there are better cars for the cash. And she could do better a deal with a bodge job, and sell for £1100.

 

[Cupra Kid]

Then it makes sense to go for the ford, should be relaible anyway as the zetecs have proven to be. Also being a ford it'll be nice and cheap to fix should it break.

 

[SEAT]

My thinking, if it does go wrong, which I can't imagine major will as I know lots of people who have had fords and nothing major goes wrong, just occasionally little bits like the cd player - and I can live with that - the parts should be nice and cheap, and readily available which they aren't always seeming to be for the Ibiza.

 

[muddyboots]

What are you doing at Uni for 7 years ?

 

[SEAT]

Architecture, hopefully!

 

[SEAT]

I emailed SEAT yesterday and recieved an email today, they were reasonably helpful asked me for chassis number and registration number as well as the dealer I have been dealing with.

Problem, its not an approved SEAT dealer - I had enough with paying over the odds so I took it independent and also when it broke down in the countryside 20miles from the nearest dealer I needed towing!

But genuine Seat parts have been used, so I will inform them of this and take the car to a main dealer as they said they would like to investigate the problems further as they is apparently rare.