Poor little might. Can’t afford her car !!!!!!!!

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Just read this on the beeb.

'Car payments are ruining our lives' https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-your-money-48776454


Poor little princess can’t afford her car anymore.
It’s an Audi A1 and she’s 23.
I can remember I had a £200 Datsun 120y when I was her age. And if I wanted to make a phone call..........I had to put money in a red box ??
Today’s yoooooof ???
 
I read that as well.

It’s bonkers isn’t it?

I asked my son recently what he wanted for his 21st

“ Oh, just a car or something” he said:rolleyes:

It will have to be “something” I think especially after I took out an endowment when he was 1 to pay for a car when he was 17 which appears to have been spent:rolleyes:
 
Her monther Mandy should perhaps ask herself how she raised a daughter so dumb and financially incompetent that they didn't figure out a £21k car was not the one for them.

By all means she can blame everyone else, but it's obvious where the fault lies.
 
When I was that age my car was a Ford Anglia 100e that had so many rust holes in it we called it ‘The Sieve’.
New Audi? No way!

Richard

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It’s always someone else’s fault....

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My brothers wife was complaining a few years ago that they couldn't afford the final payment on the car and they would have to just give it back and then what would they do, "it was disgusting that they didn't tell us this when we got the car" my brother to his credit said "they did we just didn't want to listen"

Martin
 
I say bring back Arthur Daley. He had put em right for a few sovs. Or sent Tel round, a few slaps and that would be the end of it ???

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May be not 21k but I bet of youngsters have to spend more on a car then we did as backyard mechanic is not the thing now. When we was young it was nothing to see someone had rigged up some scaffold poles and was taking an engine out. Today it would need to go a main dealer to be plugged in to their computer to get it to run Again. Different times.
 
My first car was a Merc! It cost me £5, actually to be honest! I was one of 6 "shareholders", the thing cost us £30.

We kept it on the road by swapping English Cigarettes for bits, Radiator? 400 fags! Tyre (with some tread)100 fags

It was a 1952 merc 120S
 
My first car cost £5 I got my second car for nothing from my brother it was a 1952 hillman minx and I paid another fiver for my third car. I didn't have finance on a car until I was able to pay for it.
 
Chris said:
I read that as well.

It’s bonkers isn’t it?

I asked my son recently what he wanted for his 21st

“ Oh, just a car or something” he said:rolleyes:

It will have to be “something” I think especially after I took out an endowment when he was 1 to pay for a car when he was 17 which appears to have been spent:rolleyes:
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I’m with you Chris. When our two little cherubs came into our lives, we took a similar policy out for them. When they got to 17, we payed for both of them to go through their driving test. Then gave them the option..... either have a banger that we would pay for, or the money from the policy for either a nice car or keep the policy going for help towards buying their 1st homes.
The daughter went for a £600 cleo and the son a £400 fiat punto. The daughter put hers in a ditch and the son just killed his through the miles he did. Happy days ??
 
These whining idiots will end up getting the law changed so that nobody is able to make their own financial decisions, bit by bit our freedom of choice is being eroded everywhere. Smoking. Sugar. H&S. Fat tax
 
My first car in the UK was a 1951 Bedford Van that cost £15 I did a straight swap with another squaddy for a 1951 A40 Devon Ute.
I kept that thing on the road by working for a couple of hours in a local scrapyard in Fremington every night I wasn't on duty , for free!
 
Re insurance
It did. 1980... Mk1 escort Mexico. £1500 for the car. £600 for the insurance. I was in the final year of my engineering apprenticeship and I was on £60 per week. Good old monthly payments ?
 
Easy solution, get the daughter to claim bankruptcy .... not a nice thing to do but so long as the parents didn't counter sign for the loan they're free and clear, the daughter will suffer for her bad judgement but it will at least get rid of the expense.
 
Mr B said:
I’m with you Chris. When our two little cherubs came into our lives, we took a similar policy out for them. When they got to 17, we payed for both of them to go through their driving test. Then gave them the option..... either have a banger that we would pay for, or the money from the policy for either a nice car or keep the policy going for help towards buying their 1st homes.
The daughter went for a £600 cleo and the son a £400 fiat punto. The daughter put hers in a ditch and the son just killed his through the miles he did. Happy days ??
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I promised our daughter a car while she was at collage, I got her a second hand metro. She did 30,000 mile in the first year and I had to replace it. She was the eldest in her group of friends and the only one who could drive.

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Don't be too hard on em. I bet we would have been just as bad if we had been through the same bollox as they have at their age.
The world is a ridiculous place to be growing up in today.
 
Lots of old first cars here, mine was an MG Midget that needed an engine rebuild and new sills welded in. However today I'd just buy a Honda Accord or a nice Saab, one careful owner, full service history - for £500. Half the price of an iPhone X.

There's nothing wrong is buying a new Maserati as a first car, the issue is simply one of budget and education by the parents (because the curriculum avoids subjects such as banking, money supply, fiat debt money, fractional reserve banking etc.).

So you have people like Mandy bleating on about how unfair life is rather then her spending the time with her daughter when it was needed: teaching her basic economics.
As she's at university I suspect a whopping student loan is also involved somewhere too, another expense of dubious benefit.
 
My 20 year old son runs around in a 13 year old Citroen C1. cost him £900 and £550 to insure.
Both my daughters started with small jalopies and now have nice cars. Both work hard and saved their pennies.
Why would a student want a new Audi they can't afford.
No sympathy I'm afraid and yes I blame the parents!
 
My first car a 1948 Austin 16 was given to me instead of being scrapped,
I was only fifteen but treated her too lots of TLC, used to drive her around the yard next to my house until
Coming home from school noticed my car had gone o_O
My stepfather had sold it for £15 to a guy doing some filming, I never saw a penny of the fifteen quid
But what rubbed salt in the wound is about six months later watching a episode of Z cars on the TV
My old Austin was coming down the road swerved to miss an old lady and smashed into a tree,
Totally miffed about it but nothing I could do,
 
Mr B said:
Re insurance
It did. 1980... Mk1 escort Mexico. £1500 for the car. £600 for the insurance. I was in the final year of my engineering apprenticeship and I was on £60 per week. Good old monthly payments ?
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That was effectively a hot hatch! Probably pay £10k for insurance for the modern equivalent as your first car. Also sounds like you stretched yourself quite a bit financially!
 
Guigsy said:
That was effectively a hot hatch! Probably pay £10k for insurance for the modern equivalent as your first car. Also sounds like you stretched yourself quite a bit financially!
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I did. Luckily, I was still at home with mum and dad.?
I had to sell it in the end... I was running out of points on my licence. Wish I still had it now ?
 

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