Have had one of these for a few days, it’s a 1.0 eco boost with the highest 125 bhp engine. The titanium spec includes dual aircon, heated seats and infotainment screen with satnav, also the alloy wheels are not too big with fairly high profile tyres - surprisingly.

I’ve driven a mixture of roads including a long motorway stint during storm Ciara, where it was very composed and seemed totally unfazed by crosswinds. Motorways are where it shines as it’s very quiet at speed and the suspension smooths out all bumps I came across.

Away from the motorway I was less impressed, although it handles brilliantly and the steering is nicely weighted, I found the ride too hard and also the seat bases a little too firm, but I realise both these are subjective.

The engine is really gruff at low revs and you can feel that through the clutch pedal, however once your above 2000 revs it smoothsout and goes amazingly well for its size, I also averaged 45 mpg which I thought was ok.

The stop start system worked very well but I’m still a sceptic, as I am about electric handbrakes even though that worked well too. Would I buy one, well that’s easy because I couldn’t afford it so it’s not a choice I have to make, but I wouldn’t say overall that I was smitten.

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Hi there this is my first post so apologies if this has been answered already!

I am looking to buy a bmw 1 series and I have a budget of £8000. I would ideally like to pick one up in the £7000 range leaving me with £1000 just in case anything goes wrong. I have made terrible choices in the past due to a lack of knowledge on cars bearing in mind they were both in the £2000 range. So I would just like to know what I should be looking for when buying a high mileage one series. I see a lot up at the 58000 mile mark and I was wondering if there was a reason for this? What repairs should I be expecting after the 40000 mile mark or looking for in the service records that should be fixed at that mileage.
I would also like to ask which model variant 8 should go for. I don’t do a lot of motorway driving and mainly do short 15 min or 30 min trips with a lot of stop and starting so would a petrol or diesel be better?

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Just had the Clio's 3rd service and had its first MOT, the car is 3 years old and the car has just under 20,000 Miles on the clock, One of the things that was brought up was lipping on the brake disc and advised to get the discs and pads replaced in the next couple of months.

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Hello the battery has died in my ford fusion and the raido is now locked

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