Any car for that money is going to be a lottery unless you know what you are doing, and let’s face it you’re asking a bunch of fat, crotchety old audio cunts about buying a car so that’d be a big, fat doughnut hole of a no.
Personally I’d up the budget a bit and get something with at least some chance of completing a journey, 6k will get you into a KIA Cee’d estate with a few years of warranty left on it and it’d probably work out cheaper in the long run.
Well someone woke up as a Tory this morning 
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It all depends on my sleep patterns, the less sleep I get the more right leaning I become.
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Sadly more than I have.
Although I have been looking at kias, they seem to get a bland and boring rep. Personally couldn’t care about fancy instruments, just want the basics, and a radio.
My wife has a Nissan Almera 2005, we bought as second owners. We bought it 2009? and have had no troubles with it , at all. Still have it.
Nissan Almera 1.5 Activ 1 owner from new, 25884 miles only , 2 keys great car | eBay
2004 Nissan Almera 1.5 SVE 5dr HATCHBACK Petrol Manual | eBay
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We used to have an Almera, it was very reliable 
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That was the 1.5SE, delivered both babies home from hospital.
Unfortunately ours didn’t have that ‘special’ interior that Greg’s linked too.
The day it sadly died, black and white for dramatic effect.
We owned it from a year old, right up until the end, it did and went everywhere without fuss, apart from in snow which it was truly terrifying in, I’m sure winter tyres would have helped.
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Yes they are incredibly bland and boring but we had 2 both of which had very little go wrong and what did was covered by the kia dealer we bought it from with zero issues.
When my Audi blew it’s head gasket to mars the I asked the recovery driver which cars he saw least of, his answer was Kia, Hyundai and Toyota, all worthy boring cars that never die.
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We had 3 issues with the Almera during its life.
- Heater blower fan self distructed, and was a nightmare to get at.
- We always seemed to have problems with rear brake calipers seizing on.
- All the stones in the world hit the windscreen, never had a car with such a stone magnet windscreen, I think we had at least 3 fitted, bizarre!
Sounds like someone had a habit of driving up the arse of the cars in front…
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This looks perfect, but Neath.
That’s not quite local to you
Something (not) to listen to when you’re going there:
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Sadly not.
If it wasn’t me driving, I’d agree with you, but it’s odd that none of our other cars has ever had a windscreen isn’t it?
I asked the screen fitter about it and he said “Oh yes we do loads of these…”
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Good solid cars those, we had a 1.4 turbo diesel version and it was sound
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Don’t real tail-gaters get their front wings and headlights peppered ? A stone kicked up at some tens of mph will go quite a few yards before it’s coming down again onto the screen.
VB
- Motorway = not many stones
- Company car = who cares?
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Have decided to sell some stuff off as it seems a bit of a jump once you get around the 2k mark.
Probably going to go for a 1.4 diesel skoda estate.
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Nissan note, yes or no?