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Not only reliable but ethical makers who tend to look after their customer - forget European - look East - Toyota/Lexus and Honda have served us well for many years.
Just recently a friend had the Turbo on his almost 6 year old Honda Civic disintegrate writing off the entire engine and transmission.
Honda said - it's a known fault and we will will replace it with a totally new engine and transmission free of charge at a dealer invoice cost of - gulp - £16000.
WOW - now that is customer service!
Kia/ Hyundai would also be worth a look at in my view. |
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over a year ago
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Hyundai parts are astronomical price wise so depends how old it is, most reliabl I’ve ever had is either Toyota celica or Subaru Impreza, both were utterly faultless and I should have never sold either |
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Buy any Toyota under 10 years old and get it serviced and checked by a Toyota dealer and you will gat a year's 'free' Toyota warrany up to 10 years old and, I believe 100,000 miles.
Exiting they are not, dependable they are without being hideously expensive to buy or to run! |
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By *rder66Man
over a year ago
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In Malaysia I had toyota and it was the best car I have owned, never had a problem with the engine and drove it from KL to Thailand and down to Singapore many times.
I want to replace my car this year and very much thinking of getting a toyata again. |
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Mark 1 Mitsubishi pajero ( Shogan but the imported version) being a mechanic I’ve been though a lot of cars.
The pajero Never once let me down and I thoroughly drove it like a typical mechanic/ like I stole it, also taking it off road over some brutal terrain, i obviously kept up with normal maintenance, but i basically threw it through so much abuse and it just kept going. |
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"Not only reliable but ethical makers who tend to look after their customer - forget European - look East - Toyota/Lexus and Honda have served us well for many years.
Just recently a friend had the Turbo on his almost 6 year old Honda Civic disintegrate writing off the entire engine and transmission.
Honda said - it's a known fault and we will will replace it with a totally new engine and transmission free of charge at a dealer invoice cost of - gulp - £16000.
WOW - now that is customer service!
Kia/ Hyundai would also be worth a look at in my view."
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Rover 620si, my parents had it 20 years, basic servicing, odd things like tyres and wiper blades, they gave it to my son as a run a round, he had it about a month and then it got pinched one night...  |
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"Currently have a Toyota Corolla verso. Twenty years old and never failed its MOT "
The most reliable car for you was our least reliable, we had the Toyota Corolla verso T180, so much went wrong and the last straw was the dpf going wrong and the car being stuck in limp mode a bill of £1500 off the main dealer, think they had to drop the engine to put on the new one. |
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A Honda civic 8th gen. Still my car after many years. It's needed less repair than any of the pervious Ford's I've owned. Which is great when you consider I've ve own it over twice as long now as any other car I've owned before. And to be fair the Ford's I've had have been fairly sound. It's been so consistently reliale and why despite its age there is absolutely no need to replace it. To be fair I don't see why I won't be driving it still in many years time. It has totally returned my investment form when I bought it cash all those years ago. Great value for money despite costing a little more than other cars from other manufacturers of a similar age/milage/class/spec. I would say I am a convert to Honda in the future.
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Had a Peugeot 405 estate many years ago. By far the most reliable car I've ever owned. Sold it to my parents for about half what it was worth and they ran it for a few years after. It was only an argument with a bus that finished it off
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I know this is unusual but I had a 89 xj6 for 5 yrs and apart from breaks and servicing it ran like a peach , done over 50 thousand miles with it , it must have been the only one off the production line that was built properly.  |
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Both of the audis I have had
Had both for 8+ year's each and other than suspension rubbers (which wear out) never had a single issue
100k+ in both the a4 had 185k on it when I sold it |
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Citroen Xantia
Bought it with about 130k on the clock, didn't even do an oil change in the 4 years i had it. sold it for £50 less than i paid for it, only sold it because it needed the usual suspension spheres swap and i couldn't be arsed to get them done, started first time in any weather, body was a bit battered so i could park it anywhere without a care, comfy as fuck, all the gadgets worked perfectly- replaced it with a newer version of the same which was an utter shit heap and failed after a few weeks  |
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Honda civic.
4 years and sailed through three mots so far with only a new tyre needed.
This last mot was a shock absorber which given the state of the uk roads at present with pot holes isn’t too bad.
Ahhhh I long for the days when road tax paid for the condition of our roads instead of the gas the arse end pumps out…
I’m all for cutting emissions but the councils seriously need to sort the tarmac out is so many places. |
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By *lynJMan
over a year ago
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"Currently have a Toyota Corolla verso. Twenty years old and never failed its MOT
The most reliable car for you was our least reliable, we had the Toyota Corolla verso T180, so much went wrong and the last straw was the dpf going wrong and the car being stuck in limp mode a bill of £1500 off the main dealer, think they had to drop the engine to put on the new one."
I have the petrol version. No dpf to worry about. |
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"Currently have a Toyota Corolla verso. Twenty years old and never failed its MOT
The most reliable car for you was our least reliable, we had the Toyota Corolla verso T180, so much went wrong and the last straw was the dpf going wrong and the car being stuck in limp mode a bill of £1500 off the main dealer, think they had to drop the engine to put on the new one.
I have the petrol version. No dpf to worry about."
Yes it's a much better option. |
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Jaguar s type.. Had it 10 years s faultless.
Subaru outback petrol put 60,000 miles on it.. Faultless.
Suzuki vitara had it 6 years put 125,000 miles on.. Faultless..
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