How many times is too many??

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Originally Posted by blackf6

It is a used car mate. I bought a used car 14 days ago. It has been in the workshop 5 out of the 14 days. Every used car has problems. Dealers get quick roadworthy's and try to pass repairs onto unsuspecting consumers. In an atempt to collect more profit. Just as consumers trade cars with problems they don't want to fix. But expect top dollar trade prices. Buy enough used cars. You factor this in. Warranty is useless 90 percent of the time.

Steady on mate. I've bought used cars and none of them have had issues like this. Cars my family buy are usually around a decade old and cost 2-5k NZD. Never had major issues with any of them.

But yea, used cars and dealers are usually a bad combination. We always get our used cars checked over by our mechanic before purchasing them. That said all cars will break, new or old doesn't make much difference. If anything old is better cause you can just chuck in some aftermarket part, not the genuine factory stuff that costs 3 times as much.

Originally Posted by TUF_302

When i got the missus her new car (04 Magna), to replace her VT it had a dead battery the very next day, went straight to the dealer we got it from and that happily gave me a brand new battery and were very apologetic, just shows even though we only brought a cheap 4g car the little dealer was more than happy to help, not all car yards are bad, the bad ones just make it harder to trust any of them

Exactly. The car dealer we go to is probably the only honest dealer in the entire auckland region. Some are terrible but every now and then you find a good yard. Just in case anyone in the auckland area needs a cheepo car, go to Pearce Brothers in Otahuhu. They have 5 (or something like that) different yards each dealing with different niche's and price ranges.