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[STEMO]

I have a cunning plan 
Wifey likes to have a newish (say, 3 year old) car every few years. She will have had her grandland, on a 21 plate, 2 years in June. If I can get another year out of mine, I'll inherit her cast off, again, when it's about 5/6 years old,and she will get another car.
I didn't really want to do this, because we paid £21500 for hers, and I thought that was a bit much for a mobile dog kennel. But, looking at auto trader, she would only get £13,500 by chopping it in right now, so that will probably be down to £11K or even £10K by then. This is on a car that's only done 16,000 miles right now.
So, in my mind, I'd be getting a £10K car, which is about what I want to pay. Mine can be scrapped, it's had its time.

[STEMO]

First thing I'd do is get the fickin adblue coded out, it's a pain when the temperature drops.

[Doctor Gollum]

The market is overdue a decent readjustment. What you paid for it two years ago would have been too much and the trade prices now reflect that.

Also cars that are only 8 to 10 years old are considered to be more reliable than modern cars, so their values are holding, yet dealers are only offering a pittance for them to try and claw back some of their losses tied up in overpriced new stock.

They desperately need to shift the overpriced new stuff and they only way to do that is to convince people that their perfectly decent slightly older car is utterly worthless.

[Andy B]

First thing I'd do is get the fickin adblue coded out, it's a pain when the temperature drops.

not had a problem with my ML Bluetec ..... (he says touching wood  )

[Rangie]

I have a cunning plan 
Wifey likes to have a newish (say, 3 year old) car every few years. She will have had her grandland, on a 21 plate, 2 years in June. If I can get another year out of mine, I'll inherit her cast off, again, when it's about 5/6 years old,and she will get another car.
I didn't really want to do this, because we paid £21500 for hers, and I thought that was a bit much for a mobile dog kennel. But, looking at auto trader, she would only get £13,500 by chopping it in right now, so that will probably be down to £11K or even £10K by then. This is on a car that's only done 16,000 miles right now.
So, in my mind, I'd be getting a £10K car, which is about what I want to pay. Mine can be scrapped, it's had its time.

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Sounds an ideal solution Steve 👍

[STEMO]

I have a cunning plan 
Wifey likes to have a newish (say, 3 year old) car every few years. She will have had her grandland, on a 21 plate, 2 years in June. If I can get another year out of mine, I'll inherit her cast off, again, when it's about 5/6 years old,and she will get another car.
I didn't really want to do this, because we paid £21500 for hers, and I thought that was a bit much for a mobile dog kennel. But, looking at auto trader, she would only get £13,500 by chopping it in right now, so that will probably be down to £11K or even £10K by then. This is on a car that's only done 16,000 miles right now.
So, in my mind, I'd be getting a £10K car, which is about what I want to pay. Mine can be scrapped, it's had its time.

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Sounds an ideal solution Steve 👍

Yes, Mick, and I'm not going to think about it any more. Honest 

[TheBoy]

First thing I'd do is get the fickin adblue coded out, it's a pain when the temperature drops.

not had a problem with my ML Bluetec ..... (he says touching wood  )

No issues with the pigs piss in hers either, once I can actually get some delivered from the usual ebay arseholes.

[Andy B]

First thing I'd do is get the fickin adblue coded out, it's a pain when the temperature drops.

not had a problem with my ML Bluetec ..... (he says touching wood  )

No issues with the pigs piss in hers either, once I can actually get some delivered from the usual ebay arseholes.

My Adblue has generally come from Costco
Newer cars will tell you how much is in the tank but mine will apparently just tell you when you're at the 500 miles to go .... I just put a container full in every now & then but have never had the warning

[TheBoy]

First thing I'd do is get the fickin adblue coded out, it's a pain when the temperature drops.

not had a problem with my ML Bluetec ..... (he says touching wood  )

No issues with the pigs piss in hers either, once I can actually get some delivered from the usual ebay arseholes.

My Adblue has generally come from Costco
Newer cars will tell you how much is in the tank but mine will apparently just tell you when you're at the 500 miles to go .... I just put a container full in every now & then but have never had the warning

Costco are way too expensive, it was something like £10 by the time VAT went on for 5l.  Even ShitFix/Toolstation is only £16 for 10l.

Her car doesn't even give a countdown, it says it's low, then you have a predetermined, but unspecified, number of starts before it refuses to start.  The next model year did have a countdown, and tells you via the app as well.

Also, the size of the tank is compromised on her very specific trim model to get weight down, to get it in the £0 VED category, so the bloody think holds a max of 9l.  So we chuck 5l in at a time, and just get used to doing it every 2 or 3 months depending on miileage/journey style.

We also keep the Ad blue in the utiiity room, as it doesn't like being stored incorrectly.  Hence I wouldn't use from a petrol station shop where its left outside to freeze, and often in direct sunlight.

[STEMO]

Wife's grandland just says 'Starting impossible in 1750 miles' all the time, guess that means it's ok. Then it counts down 'Starting impossible in 1500 miles, 1250 miles, etc.
When the outside temperature drops below freezing for a couple of days, it starts the countdown whether it's full or not, and reports a fault. As soon as it warms up a bit, it goes back to 1750 and the fault light goes out.

[Doctor Gollum]

It could be that it's a bit low and the cold affects the volume enough to upset it. Might be worth topping it up...

[STEMO]

It could be that it's a bit low and the cold affects the volume enough to upset it. Might be worth topping it up...

Tried that, makes no difference. It's obvious a common problem, when Mo mentioned it to a couple of (male) people at work, they just said 'That'll be cause it's cold'
She only does about 150 miles a week, so it would have to stay very cold for an extended period of time for it to get to zero. That's not gonna happen, what with global warming an all.

[TheBoy]

It could be that it's a bit low and the cold affects the volume enough to upset it. Might be worth topping it up...

Suspect more likely badly stored pigs piss from a garage, so it would have degraded badly.

[STEMO]

It could be that it's a bit low and the cold affects the volume enough to upset it. Might be worth topping it up...

Suspect more likely badly stored pigs piss from a garage, so it would have degraded badly.

Eff off, you, and take your car for a swim 

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Within a week or so you'll be posting an advert  for another dreary derv estate.

Then you'll calm down a bit......then a week later you'll become bored and post another Autotrader advert.