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Looking for a first car, need some advice (lemmy.ml)
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Im looking for a first car for about 3500€ which can hopefully last a few years daily commuting During my apprenticeship

Now, I come from a Toyota family, since they are reliable af in the engine Department, even if they (at least the yaris and prius from the 00s) drive pretty badly

But the aygos sold here for that price have extremely high mileage (as in 160k+), and even if they have been treated for Rust, which they have probably not knowing the people who drive a 2006 aygo base model without aircon), it tends to be very noticeable on the inside of the car and all the nice to have stuff

Now, I've been looking at the VW golf 3 door from about 03, they go for about 2800€ Max for like 100k, but from what I've heard VW, Audi and the likes tend to die around 100k, but they are just so great in every other aspect

So now I'm looking for comments from the car gods.

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[–] 1 point 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Out of curiosity, what tires are you running on your sienna. I'm assuming those are 16" rims. I put zenna sport lines on my Sienna. They're okay but despite being the correct load rating, I don't trust them. Tempted to go to a light truck tire as ours is also pulls double duty as a work van.

Edit: idk if they live in a city or not because accounting for extended service intervals, some vehicles may end up getting ill maintained.

Like say someone buys a car and the oil service intervals is 20k km, they don't reach that mileage but they've had it a few years. They won't change the oil. Stuff like that. Lots of stop start cycles but not much heat gets into the oil so milky oil and the like.

20k km is easily doable for me but my commute is mainly highway.

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