Quote Originally Posted by bower View Post
cheers for all your advice.
i drive less than 5k a year at the minute, to be honest im not sure i really need another nice car, a banger would do but i just like driving about in something nice.
the cars been serviced every 18k and has had its timing belt changed twice the latest time being in feb it also had a new manifold fitted at 120k.
ive found another car with only 100k on it at same price but its only been serviced ever 30k.

which is the better buy do you think??
Full service history is really important. I would not be put off by the high mileage if you can get a good test drive and make sure everything seems ok.

I think the price asked is a little high and certainly may be priced with some expectation of haggle room.

With that said, these diesels are not best suited to short-hop driving. They take a while to warm up to get good efficiency, and also you may have a DPF issue if you only do short runs. If you are planning to do a small number of longer runs this may be less of a problem.