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Originally Posted by andys
Hell, didn't really want to start a debate on the pro's and cons !
Just wondered if anyone had seen any really good deals ?
I have a car that qualifies, and i'd like to keep it, but it has an electrical fault that so far 3 garages can't find the answer to. The battery keeps going flat (had a new battery, obviously) but I can't keep throwing money at it. I'm now a the point where my local garage says I can swop this and that (alternator for example) but there's no guarantees, it would be a process of elimination and hopefully fixing it that way !!
I'm not interested in any crazy finance deals, i'd be looking to swop the car in, if it comes to it, and then paying for the new car.
I'd love to keep my 99T Reg Puma, as it's only done 50K, but if it won't start and has a dead battery every now and again, I can't live with it (well I can, bit the missus can't when she needs to ferry kids around) !
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Our old primera 96' was dumping over the christmas period, we had the amp meter on the battery, took out the fuses one by one etc but unable to find the drain, into main dealer, replaced battery, still dumping pulled all fuses still 3amp drain, disconnected alternator and the drain stopped, new alternator and the cars as good as ever, 160k and still going strong - cost me £550 (mostly labour) and possibly more than its worth !! and while the work was going on there were no guarantees and we were looking at 400plus work done before the alternator.
We were looking at Skodas, Vat off some models new, discount on others seemed to be worth more than the scrapage scheme, looked at 6 month old and less than 10k and they seemed an even better deal. but now we are trusting the primera again, roll on the mot.