Off topic : of course ,anybody advise on purchasing a vw golf, Please comment on ad Options

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Im buying a new car for my grandma

Her 1996 toyota tercel cannot pass smog

And it leaks oil, shocks are blown ,interior is crap etc

So any suggestions on what is a good replacement

Car will never be driven on freeways . And see extremely little use in general

This golf seemed great , small like a tercel but i know nothing
About water pumping modern volks wagens

So thought id check here 1st

[gandalf_025]

When my wife stopped driving her 911 as a daily driver she went
through a couple of money pit Audi A4’s that were a financial disaster.
In late 2015 she bought a new Honda Fit automatic for 15,800.00
At this point it is nearing 80,000 miles and not a single issue.
It asks for an oil change around every 10,000 miles and gets
Mid 40 mpg. Can’t beat a Honda....
CVT is transparent when you drive the car and there is a
ton of room inside depending on how you configure the seats.
She wants to buy another one and not drive it much and pay it off
before she retires so she use it daily as a retirement car. Without her 100
Mile a day commute that one should last pretty Much forever.
I’ll get this one as a daily and buy a pos Tacoma for when a Truck is needed.

[flyer86d]

When my wife stopped driving her 911 as a daily driver she went
through a couple of money pit Audi A4’s that were a financial disaster.
In late 2015 she bought a new Honda Fit automatic for 15,800.00
At this point it is nearing 80,000 miles and not a single issue.
It asks for an oil change around every 10,000 miles and gets
Mid 40 mpg. Can’t beat a Honda....
CVT is transparent when you drive the car and there is a
ton of room inside depending on how you configure the seats.
She wants to buy another one and not drive it much and pay it off
before she retires so she use it daily as a retirement car. Without her 100
Mile a day commute that one should last pretty Much forever.
I’ll get this one as a daily and buy a pos Tacoma for when a Truck is needed.

We drove older Mercedes for a bunch of years with generally great luck. We still have one but it does not get a lot of use anymore, it is just not worth selling. We also kept my brides 04 Volvo S60 when we replaced it with a new daily driver. Why? It has a stick shift. I bought my daughter a 1990 300SL when she was a senior in high school. She would leave the house at 4:30 am for morning swim practice, then to school, then back to evening swim practice and home at 10 pm every day. It was a 125 mile round trip and I wanted her in a safe car. It did not go with her to college. I didn’t want to see it parked in a college parking lot in Minnesota. In five years of ownership and 60,000 miles, I replaced the brake pads.

I drove a 1990 300 D 2.5 turbo at the time. When I sold it at 260,000 miles 5 years ago, I replace the brake pads and tires once in the 100,000 I owned it. That’s it.

The reason that we drove old used cars is that there is little depreciation. That is the largest cost in car ownership. I was commuting 80 miles/day, my wife 100, my daughter 125. If we drove new cars, they would all be worthless by the time we paid them off!

I owned a garage so labor (mine) was free and parts were at cost but I had little to replace. The problem with Asian cars is the cost of parts. They can be more expensive than Benz parts and the dealers lock out the aftermarket until the car is 5 years old. Oh, the Asian dealer would cut me a generous 10% discount on retail on parts if I was forced to buy from them. I was never thrilled to work on them.

Charlie