Am thinking micra

[WULFSTAN]

So to cut a long story short because of illness am thinking of not riding this winter will be the first in about 7 or 8 years that I haven't. So I was thinking of getting a little one litre micra. Anyone have one are they crap or ? Mpg cost of parts etc any help would be great thanks.
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[temeluchus]

I self aware (presumably nissan) micra that thinks only in or of the morning?
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[alt tab]

Do you mean you're thinking about buying a Nissan Micra, the highly popular (?) supermini "middle aged woman about town" car to drive during the winter?

[lihp]

What year are you looking at?

K10 - Don't waste your time
K11 - Watch for rusty sills and crossmember, not many none-rotten left. Also are prone to have issues with the air flow sensor needing to be resoldered on the throttle body every few months.
K12 - Avoid early ones as they had shitty cam chains, probably too pricey for what you're suggesting?
K13 - Probably too new for what you're looking at?
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[lihp]

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[Wonko The Sane]

[mogstar]

Prone to rear wheel bearings going and they need pressing out. Listen for noise under load.

Don't bother with the home made press in the Haynes manual - did that and it just bent. Took the hub to an engineering shop and it took 6 tons in their press to get it out.

Might be just unlucky but the local parts shop say they sells lots of rear bearings, ours was an 04.

[mogstar]

Also ours had a Renault gearbox fitted, I know this because it jammed in 3rd gear and the gearbox repair shop told us!

[dransy]

What about a skoda fabia , picked the misses one up for 200 quid 1.9 sdi .

Ducking love it 69 mpg on a motorway run to Blackpool from Leeds at 55 mpg to work and back
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[Diggs]

Must be good cars because the local curry/pizza delivery boys love them round our way....
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[dodsi]

How many miles do you expect to do? Just this may mean you don't have to have a little pap car but a fuel guzzling beast that people don't want because you get 25mpg and not 40. But waft around in luxury.

[WULFSTAN]

Not many id say 35 a day at the moment.
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[dodsi]

Can you afford for that trip to cost you £10 per time?

[angryjonny]

I had a K11 Micra as my first car. Having never driven another car apart from my instructor's diesel mk2 Fiesta it seemed fine. Once I'd trundled around a bit in a Renault Trafic, it seemed boring by comparison.

I loved it because it was a car when I had hitherto had no car. But it's probably about the most joyless car... ie the furthest you'll ever get from a bike.

Clutches are weak. I bought one for 35 quid and had an independent garage fit it for 70. This was a *long* time ago.

[grr666]

Do you remember the commercials when they brought out the bubble
shaped micra. They combined two words to make a new one....

https://www.sniffpetrol.com/MicraAd.jpg

https://honeybug.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/normal_New_Micra.jpg

Don't do it....

TOtally uncoOL
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[lihp]

[mogstar]

[bikertomm]

Standard bikertomm advice: Get a standard Saxo VTR and re-live your youth.

Can pick them up for peanuts. Real world 52+MPG.

Mine's done almost 70,000 miles trouble free. Just clicked on 125k.

And if does go wrong, it cost's peanuts to fix. And if it goes majorly wrong, it cost nothing in the first place. Chances are, it might not even go wrong.


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[lihp]

[stonesie]

Don't get a saxo if you have wide feet, I nearly bought one but on the test drive I kept hitting throttle and brake at the same time, also had to twist my ankle to get more than half throttle. Probably Citroens most rugged car ever though.

I ended up with a corsa, if 'meh' was a car it would be a corsa...

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