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    Posted: 05 Mar 09 at 7:41am
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Originally posted by tmoore

even so, my parents just picked up a 53laguna d.turbo on 60k for just over £3000. lots of cheap cars out there. just hoping mine gets me home at easter so i can replace it!!!

I hope your religious, you will need lots of praying to hope the electrics last and don't go back into euros mode!  also nothing switches off when it goes kaput, you know when it happens cos you can't start the car again, my dads now has an on/off switch by the ciggy lighter

Yea, even so, at that price its a bit of a bargain. im actually tempted myself as my clutch is on its way out. A real student car
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If the road is wet and puddles have formed switch of the cruise control!
(not that you get much of a chance of turning it on nowadays)
Cruise control doesn't understand the principles of aqua planing and neither do I but it can end up as a horrible mess and your priced boat could look like a piece of road kill.
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Originally posted by tmoore

even so, my parents just picked up a 53laguna d.turbo on 60k for just over £3000. lots of cheap cars out there. just hoping mine gets me home at easter so i can replace it!!!

I hope your religious, you will need lots of praying to hope the electrics last and don't go back into euros mode!  also nothing switches off when it goes kaput, you know when it happens cos you can't start the car again, my dads now has an on/off switch by the ciggy lighter

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Villian, where was that Volvo advertised?

I'll buy it and sell it on based on the prices I have seen on autotrader! Could be a good purchase! (may even share the profits!!!)
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even so, my parents just picked up a 53laguna d.turbo on 60k for just over £3000. lots of cheap cars out there. just hoping mine gets me home at easter so i can replace it!!!

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154 thou on the golf when it finally died. Only two months before it would happily tow another 1.8 golf behind at 90 down the a21 so 125 on a 52 is nothing!
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Mileage on modern, well looked after engines isn't a big
problem. 125K isn't that much.
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as long as thats the D5 engine villan and its been properly serviced that is nothing mileage wise!  you could buy that car (if it was diesel) and stick it in the auctions at the moment and make a tidy profit! (yes we are in a recession but the car auction market is on fire at the moment)
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They are! I'm annoyed I can't afford the insurance on one!

Oh, and VERY high mileage on some of the cheaper ones .. 125k on a 52 reg XC70! Only wanted £3k for it, but it was a LOT of mileage ..

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second hand prices for vovlo`s are VERY decent at the moment!
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