Marc's selling his Celica and not planning on getting another car til he needs one when he starts uni in January which means my only access to a car is my Zed. I planned to SORN it when the tax runs out end of October as I wouldn't want to drive it in the bad weather plus in all honesty it is just a toy car, I could never afford to run it as a daily driver. As it is I walk to work most days as I'm skint lol.

Anyway, I will still need a car, because of work/childcare issues - not to mention that without a car I am severely limited to what I can do and where I can go with my daughter.

So it looks like my only option is going to be to sell my Zed, before October so its still got road tax. Will get my headlights issue resolved after pay day and then I think I am going to have to sell my gorgeous gorgeous yello zed :thumbdown::thumbdown::thumbdown::thumbdown::thumbdown::thumbdown:

Cant you just buy a £300 banger runabout to use and keep the zed?

 

On the + side, if you do sell its a nice looking one and shoud get a good price. Good enough to buy an ok one and a runabout ;)

Cant you just buy a £300 banger runabout to use and keep the zed?

 

On the + side, if you do sell its a nice looking one and shoud get a good price. Good enough to buy an ok one and a runabout ;)

 

^^^What he said^^^

or talk marc into keeping his car

chuck the zed on the drive or garage, sorn it and get a runabout

If I had £300 for a runabout I would get one - but I pay for everything myself, rent, bills, i have very little disposable income. I don't drink, smoke, go out - my car is my hobby, I live and breathe it - but I just cannot justify having £2k of car sat in my garage over winter, unable to tax or run it yet not have a family car for me and my girl. Marc's selling his Celica coz it means we have 2 big cars to run, tax, insure etc - plan is that he will get a Starlet or Micra as a small cheap family car but he's decided to leave that til he needs one for Uni end of Jan so i can't see how I've got a choice. Absolutely gutted, love my car but I won't be able to do stuff like get my daugther to school holiday club without myown transport - and I can't afford not to work!

Got a very trembly bottom lip here :(

Sell for £2800

 

Buy a runabout for £500

 

Buy a Zed for £1500

 

Insure them and have the best of both worlds ;)

for a start i would say your car is worth more than 2k from what ive seen, more like 3-4. as the guys said that buys an ok zed and a runabout

Sell for £2800

 

Buy a runabout for £500

 

Buy a Zed for £1500

 

Insure them and have the best of both worlds ;)

 

£2800? I WISH it would sell for that much!!!

£2800? I WISH it would sell for that much!!!

 

£2800 I think is underpriced for a quick sale!!!!

unfortunately you are not subscribed so are not permitted to sell on these forums, please dont turn this in to a for sale thread otherwise it will be deleted

unfortunately you are not subscribed so are not permitted to sell on these forums, please dont turn this in to a for sale thread otherwise it will be deleted

 

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well chewy's looking at getting a quick sale for the proton sometime this week. so he should be taking the clica of your hands hopefully by the weekend. so just persuade mark to buy a £300 banger out of the celica money, and then hey presto, job done, he can use student finance to buy a starlet in january, and then still sell the £300 banger for about £300! and you get to keep your zed!

If it did ever come up for sale. I would take it. Well becky would and we would sell the supra :yes:

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If it did ever come up for sale. I would take it. Well becky would and we would sell the supra :yes:

 

see, for sale thread already, all rules apply to everyone no matter what the circumstances

hypothetically speaking :wink:

well chewy's looking at getting a quick sale for the proton sometime this week. so he should be taking the clica of your hands hopefully by the weekend. so just persuade mark to buy a £300 banger out of the celica money, and then hey presto, job done, he can use student finance to buy a starlet in january, and then still sell the £300 banger for about £300! and you get to keep your zed!

 

He's adamant he's selling his and not getting another one so I'm f**ked over a barrel sideways unfortunately - but thanks

Sorry all, this is most definitely not a for sale thread. I'm really upset. Apparently I am ungrateful but thats a whole other issue not for public airing. Will put the car on Pistonheads in few days

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Ah dam shame, its a bonny little car that! Hope you find a solution to keep it. Often if its a heat of the moment "have to get rid of it" it calms down and you find a way to keep it :)

 

Problem is in this day and age they are expensive to run vs their purchase price. Heavy on juice, bad to insure - iv just paid to tax mine so im annoyed at paying the government for the pleasure!

Yeah, i've been in this situation a fair few times before. if you REALLY want to keep the car, you will find a way. :)

I hope it all works out for you guys and you don't have to sell it. Don't make any hasty decisions you'll probably regret. Sit down and go through all eventualities in a bid to work out if it's at all possible to run it as a daily. If you're not doing many miles fuel difference shouldn't be too much. Also there's no guarantee a 300quid runaround is going to last the winter, so might be money wasted. Best of luck, Daffy.

I'm using my Z as a daily driver and as long as i drive it like a granny to work, it's not that much more expensive to run than other cars really.

 

Failing that, get a bike and cycle to work :)

Thanks all - maybe I just won't SORN it over winter and I'll have to use it as my family car - but its a 2 seater so we can't actually go anywhere AS a family and its hardly the car I'd choose to put my 4 yr old daughter in. Just don't know what to do really. I already walk/cycle/bus to work but no family car is very limiting with a young child - and I HATE the feeling of being trapped and unable to just go out for the day without taking buses, trains and lots of forward planning. In all the yrs I've ben driving I've always had access to a car....ugh!

Moderators feel free to delete this if people think this is a for sale post.

Well why not sell your zed and buy a LWB 2+2 then you'll have 4 seats and everyone is happy!

Well why not sell your zed and buy a LWB 2+2 then you'll have 4 seats and everyone is happy!

 

Just could not afford it as a daily driver when I start my nursing, will be posted all over the region so could be doing a 60 or 80 mile commute for placements, on a nursing bursary. Maybe it was just over ambitious of me to think I could afford to keep the Zed as my hobby whilst running a crappy micra or starlet as a daily driver whilst training. Hate the thought of not having a hobby car, cars are my passion. But its hard to justify making my daughter miss out on stuff because I can't take her places, or expect mates to ferry us about when I've got a car I can't afford to run in the garage. My dad put his hobbies over the welfare of his family when we were growing up so we never once had a family holiday or indeed did anything together as a family such was his passion for reptiles and amphibians - and that was an expensive hobby too.

Just feel torn. If I could make some profit on the zed, buy a daily driver AND then get a cheaper zed as a project/hobby that would make perfect sense. Its just that my yellow zed - well, she's just so drop dead gorgeous and apart from getting the headlights issue sorted, I can't fault her. Sure, I got a 1000 plans for her but not entirely sure I have my priorities right here....

I take it you cant claim milage for your driving for work then? Seeing that its different each day and all that.