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rbmfc1985
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My partner has just passed her driving test and neither of us have drove before. I've never had an interest in driving and would have been happy to stick with buses, taxis and trains, but she needed to learn to open up more options for jobs and to make it easier to get back to see her family.
As neither us know anything about cars we looked on Google for good first cars but that didn't really help. We don't really want to go into a car dealership without knowing what we want as neither of us know what we're talking about and will probably get ripped off.
We started looking yesterday and set ourselves an upper limit of £11,000 between us for a car and aimed for a car that cost no more than £1,500 a year to insure. After talking to someone in the family she said we should be looking at no more than £4000/£5000 and look for a car with less than 10000 miles per year since it was made. But I'm concerned about her ending up with a car that looks OK but is actually falling apart and will be dangerous or cost us a fortune in repairs.
If we didn't have a child in the car to think about I'd be less concerned, but after some of the horror stories I've heard about cheap second hand cars, I'd rather spend a bit more to make sure that doesn't happen to us.
So...since I'm pretty sure there'll be some experts on cars on here. What would be a good first car which is safe, has good boot space and won't be too expensive. Where would be a trustworthy place to buy one from. And what sort of price range should we be looking at?
As neither us know anything about cars we looked on Google for good first cars but that didn't really help. We don't really want to go into a car dealership without knowing what we want as neither of us know what we're talking about and will probably get ripped off.
We started looking yesterday and set ourselves an upper limit of £11,000 between us for a car and aimed for a car that cost no more than £1,500 a year to insure. After talking to someone in the family she said we should be looking at no more than £4000/£5000 and look for a car with less than 10000 miles per year since it was made. But I'm concerned about her ending up with a car that looks OK but is actually falling apart and will be dangerous or cost us a fortune in repairs.
If we didn't have a child in the car to think about I'd be less concerned, but after some of the horror stories I've heard about cheap second hand cars, I'd rather spend a bit more to make sure that doesn't happen to us.
So...since I'm pretty sure there'll be some experts on cars on here. What would be a good first car which is safe, has good boot space and won't be too expensive. Where would be a trustworthy place to buy one from. And what sort of price range should we be looking at?