FabSwingers.com forum: What's the best most reliable car

By *he love cats OP Couple
over a year ago

South Wales

you have ever owned.

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By *ansoffateMan
over a year ago

Sagittarius A

1995 Honda Prelude. Didn't have to do anything to it for 5 years. Just services, brakes and tyres.

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By *eorge1949Man
over a year ago

BroadwayWR11

Not only reliable but ethical makers who tend to look after their customer - forget European - look East - Toyota/Lexus and Honda have served us well for many years.

Just recently a friend had the Turbo on his almost 6 year old Honda Civic disintegrate writing off the entire engine and transmission.

Honda said - it's a known fault and we will will replace it with a totally new engine and transmission free of charge at a dealer invoice cost of - gulp - £16000.

WOW - now that is customer service!

Kia/ Hyundai would also be worth a look at in my view.

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By *ose-tinted GlassesMan
over a year ago

Glasgow / London

A Porsche.

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By *ose-tinted GlassesMan
over a year ago

Glasgow / London

Second most reliable is probably a Toyota … somewhat less glamorous though.

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By *ilkstressWoman
over a year ago

Drasnia

Audi Q3.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Hyundai parts are astronomical price wise so depends how old it is, most reliabl I’ve ever had is either Toyota celica or Subaru Impreza, both were utterly faultless and I should have never sold either

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By *2000ManMan
over a year ago

Worthing

Vw Golf Diesel pre dpf filter from 2001. Did a lot of miles and no major bills. Had it 7 years. It had a small turbo so decent mid range performance as well. Mpg was excellent.

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By *tephTV67TV/TS
over a year ago

Cheshire

Two years with my Toyota so far so good.

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By *ngelFire2020Couple
over a year ago

Darlington

1996 Isuzu Trooper 3.1 diesel long wheel base 4x4

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By *LIVEANDKICKING100Man
over a year ago

DUBLIN

Own a Audi Q5 TDi. 7 years old. Never let me down. Have had two VW Golf TDis and an Audi A3 1.6 petrol. All 100% reliable.

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By *ools and the brainCouple
over a year ago

couple, us we him her.

Lexus all day long.

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By *rofessor ElementalMan
over a year ago

Durham

1987 Honda Accord Aerodeck had it for 10 years with 290,000 miles on the clock and it was still running great.

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By *eorge1949Man
over a year ago

BroadwayWR11

Buy any Toyota under 10 years old and get it serviced and checked by a Toyota dealer and you will gat a year's 'free' Toyota warrany up to 10 years old and, I believe 100,000 miles.

Exiting they are not, dependable they are without being hideously expensive to buy or to run!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

VW Polo 1.4tdi 2004.Had it seven years, went everywhere and it never missed a beat.

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By *rder66Man
over a year ago

Tatooine

In Malaysia I had toyota and it was the best car I have owned, never had a problem with the engine and drove it from KL to Thailand and down to Singapore many times.

I want to replace my car this year and very much thinking of getting a toyata again.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Mark 1 Mitsubishi pajero ( Shogan but the imported version) being a mechanic I’ve been though a lot of cars.

The pajero Never once let me down and I thoroughly drove it like a typical mechanic/ like I stole it, also taking it off road over some brutal terrain, i obviously kept up with normal maintenance, but i basically threw it through so much abuse and it just kept going.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

You only have to look at most taxis, Toyota aventis,and Prius,taxi drivers swear by their reliability

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By *lynJMan
over a year ago

Morden

Currently have a Toyota Corolla verso. Twenty years old and never failed its MOT

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Currently have a Toyota Corolla verso. Twenty years old and never failed its MOT "

Toyota is my next car

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'm on my 3rd Hyundai now, never had an issue with any of them.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

For me, the most reliable car is a lease car. If it goes wrong, you give it back and get another one

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My little red pedal car when I was about 3

Never failed an MOT

Never ran out of petrol

Zero maintenance costs

You can't get more reliable than that!!

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By *ez669Man
over a year ago

East Kilbride

My current audi Q5

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Had a Skoda Fabia for years! Minimal maintenance, just wear and tear, endless road trips and 56mpg

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Not only reliable but ethical makers who tend to look after their customer - forget European - look East - Toyota/Lexus and Honda have served us well for many years.

Just recently a friend had the Turbo on his almost 6 year old Honda Civic disintegrate writing off the entire engine and transmission.

Honda said - it's a known fault and we will will replace it with a totally new engine and transmission free of charge at a dealer invoice cost of - gulp - £16000.

WOW - now that is customer service!

Kia/ Hyundai would also be worth a look at in my view."

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By *riskynriskyCouple
over a year ago

Essex.

Rover 620si, my parents had it 20 years, basic servicing, odd things like tyres and wiper blades, they gave it to my son as a run a round, he had it about a month and then it got pinched one night...

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By *he love cats OP Couple
over a year ago

South Wales

"Currently have a Toyota Corolla verso. Twenty years old and never failed its MOT "

The most reliable car for you was our least reliable, we had the Toyota Corolla verso T180, so much went wrong and the last straw was the dpf going wrong and the car being stuck in limp mode a bill of £1500 off the main dealer, think they had to drop the engine to put on the new one.

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By * la carteCouple
over a year ago

Dublin

"My little red pedal car when I was about 3

Never failed an MOT

Never ran out of petrol

Zero maintenance costs

You can't get more reliable than that!!

That made me chuckle

Mrs

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By *isfits behaving badlyCouple
over a year ago

Coventry

A Honda civic 8th gen. Still my car after many years. It's needed less repair than any of the pervious Ford's I've owned. Which is great when you consider I've ve own it over twice as long now as any other car I've owned before. And to be fair the Ford's I've had have been fairly sound. It's been so consistently reliale and why despite its age there is absolutely no need to replace it. To be fair I don't see why I won't be driving it still in many years time. It has totally returned my investment form when I bought it cash all those years ago. Great value for money despite costing a little more than other cars from other manufacturers of a similar age/milage/class/spec. I would say I am a convert to Honda in the future.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

2005 jeep Wrangler.

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By *itvclaireTV/TS
over a year ago

Birmingham

Had a Peugeot 405 estate many years ago. By far the most reliable car I've ever owned. Sold it to my parents for about half what it was worth and they ran it for a few years after. It was only an argument with a bus that finished it off

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By *ustBoWoman
over a year ago

Somewhere in Co. Down

A Nissan Almera I had it for years never gave me any bother it was a great car and a golf as well that was trouble free for years.

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By *entleman JayMan
over a year ago

Wakefield

And the winner is. Toyota!

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By *avexxMan
over a year ago

cheshire

little toyota yaris sr,, never missed a beat

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By *cott73Man
over a year ago

brighton

Against all odds, an Alfa Romeo GTV that never missed a beat, right up until it caught fire....

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By *eorge1949Man
over a year ago

BroadwayWR11

Or a Honda Jazz, 18 years old, in the same family for 15 of those years and now covered 130,000 miles, never gone wrong, never failed an MOT, never failed to start or to proceed.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I love my Skodas, they are bomb proof and go for years

Mrs

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By *ust RachelTV/TS
over a year ago

Horsham

It is a toss up between a Mitsubishi Carisma or a Dacia Duster, never had much trouble with either of them.

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By *ecretRDZVMan
over a year ago

Glasgow

If it’s not Japanese it will break. From a BMW driver

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I know this is unusual but I had a 89 xj6 for 5 yrs and apart from breaks and servicing it ran like a peach , done over 50 thousand miles with it , it must have been the only one off the production line that was built properly.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Both of the audis I have had

Had both for 8+ year's each and other than suspension rubbers (which wear out) never had a single issue

100k+ in both the a4 had 185k on it when I sold it

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By *elvet RopeMan
over a year ago

by the big field

Citroen Xantia

Bought it with about 130k on the clock, didn't even do an oil change in the 4 years i had it. sold it for £50 less than i paid for it, only sold it because it needed the usual suspension spheres swap and i couldn't be arsed to get them done, started first time in any weather, body was a bit battered so i could park it anywhere without a care, comfy as fuck, all the gadgets worked perfectly- replaced it with a newer version of the same which was an utter shit heap and failed after a few weeks

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By *tar80sWoman
over a year ago

Southampton

Absolutely love toyota. I had a Matrix, now a Highlander.

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By *ultured Gent16Man
over a year ago

close.

Honda civic.

4 years and sailed through three mots so far with only a new tyre needed.

This last mot was a shock absorber which given the state of the uk roads at present with pot holes isn’t too bad.

Ahhhh I long for the days when road tax paid for the condition of our roads instead of the gas the arse end pumps out…

I’m all for cutting emissions but the councils seriously need to sort the tarmac out is so many places.

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By *icked Game You PlayMan
over a year ago

Perth

Lada Riva

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I can tell you what isn't, Ford Ranger. Electrics are horrendous on them.

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By *ittleMissCaliWoman
over a year ago

all loved up

"you have ever owned.

Have a lovely weekend all.

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my alfa giulietta did 79k over 3 years... not put a foot wrong

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By *ez669Man
over a year ago

East Kilbride

German all the way

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My little Toyota Aygo, my mum had her for years and now I've got her. Never any issues she runs great.

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By *heislanderMan
over a year ago

cheshunt

"I can tell you what isn't, Ford Ranger. Electrics are horrendous on them."

I’ve got a 2019 Wildtrack, I’ve done over 120k miles and have had no issues

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By *torm in a G cupWoman
over a year ago

Land of the Long White Cloud

I had a VW golf mk2.

So reliable and I loved it.

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By *lynJMan
over a year ago

Morden

"Currently have a Toyota Corolla verso. Twenty years old and never failed its MOT

I have the petrol version. No dpf to worry about.

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By *he love cats OP Couple
over a year ago

South Wales

"Currently have a Toyota Corolla verso. Twenty years old and never failed its MOT

I have the petrol version. No dpf to worry about."

Yes it's a much better option.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Toyota Celica had it for 5 years only issue was the MAFS, looking for another one now.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Jaguar s type.. Had it 10 years s faultless.

Subaru outback petrol put 60,000 miles on it.. Faultless.

Suzuki vitara had it 6 years put 125,000 miles on.. Faultless..

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