To save money... Trade in Scoob + Disco for?????

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18 July 2006, 12:48 PM

Mick

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To save money... Trade in Scoob + Disco for?????

Looking at finances this week...

We don't seem to have as much money available as we should...

The cars are obviously a major expense, but can we save much money by trading them in?

We have 3 kids so need a 'family car'...

The missus 'says' she would be happy with another Fiesta rather than the scoob (97MY) as a daily driver... The scoob costs us hardly anything in maintenance & only does 4-5k miles a year, obviously at this age doesn't have a great deal of capital associated with it - probably in reality straight swap for modern Fiesta?

- so major save £250 per year insurance... oh yes and tyres

Disco is 1999 ES 7seat V8 doing ~ 8k miles per year... probable real selling price ~ £6k ??? just had 72k service.

I could cope if the missus had the Fiesta as a runabout and we got a Legacy RSK for a 'family car'

- But I don't think this would save us anything

Anyone else been in this situation? - What did you do?

The only major cost save would seem to be to me to be able to reorganise ourselves to use only 1 car...

Cheers

Mick

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18 July 2006, 01:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Mick

Looking at finances this week...

We don't seem to have as much money available as we should...

Cheers

Mick

I'm intrigued by that comment ..... 'as we should' change that 'should' into reality and you are home and dry.

Failing that, buy a Skoda Diesel and enjoy the savings!!