Over the last few years I have become disillusioned with the idea of owning my own car. About five years ago, I bought a brand new Ford Focus TDCi which I thought would be the perfect car for me. It was cheap to run and insure, was relatively sporty and I thought it would hold its value reasonably well. After three years of owning the car I realised I had been mistaken. It was a great car to drive, and not too much went wrong with it, but when I came to re sell the car and get another new car, I discovered that it had lost a huge amount of value in the three years that I had owned it. Obviously I could do nothing but cut my losses, and I decided once I had managed to sell the focus, that I would buy something a few years old to try and avoid a repeat of what had happened before. I found a four years old Audi A6 with a two and a half liter diesel engine. Again, it was what I thought would be a rock solid car.
Everything was fine for a few months, but after I hit the eighty thousand mile mark, things just started going wrong with it, and they didn’t seem to stop! I had a new water p[ump, a new turbo, there was a problem with the suspension, and on top of all this, the front passenger side window had become stuck about an inch open, which was playing havoc with the car alarm! I managed to sell that one a few weeks ago, again at a major loss, and this time around I just don’t want to buy one anymore. I have investigated car leasing and it turns out that for a small fee and monthly payments I can get a brand new Golf and not have to worry about a thing! It’s an easy decision to make!