Thread: Kia Rio - any good?

Originally Posted by cyrille

I thought you said you were over there for a month in total, much of it spent at your mums?

It doesn't look like you get any discount for renting for a Month.
Would it not work out a lot cheaper if you just rent on weekdays when the kids are in school and all the roads and places you wanna visit are nice and empty?

Originally Posted by Reg Dingle

^^



It's what he would have wanted

Tbf the family will probably just gift the old banger to you, one less thing to bother with.

Right, I've got it all planned out for you mate and a nice saving to boot.
OK
You spend your Friday and Saturday nights getting that wankered on scrumpy and fucked up on 9 inches that you wouldnt be fit to drive on weekends anyway.

So here we go...
First week, you'll be cruising around like Joe albeit with one with a working engine...£220



The 2nd and 3rd weeks you can live like Terry 57 and save a load more dosh by sleeping in this one instead of those travel lodges...
180 quid a week- so 360



And for your final week after your daughter has tried her upmost to get blood out of a stone...guffaw... you will be rollin like Arry135 pounds


So a grand total of £715

Joking aside, I wondered what that car sharing thing was in those ads, I thought maybe someone was in the back so i googled it and I did stumble upon something here for you.

That Turo is a....

Turo is a peer-to-peer car sharing marketplace that allows travelers to book cars directly from trusted local car owners in the US, Canada, and the UK. Turo hosts share their own personal cars and set their own prices, discounts, vehicle availability, and delivery options.35 Travelers can enter a location and date and browse thousands of cars shared by local hosts. They can book on the Turo app or online, choose a protection plan, and cancel for free up to 24 hours before their trip.12 They can have the car delivered or pick it up from their host.1 Turo is the world's largest car sharing marketplace and allows private car owners to rent out their vehicles via an online and mobile interface in over 56 countries.4 Turo offers up to $750,000 in liability insurance backing each trip.0

There's mercs and beemers and Teslas on there and looks great value compared to those hire firms.

Ah yes, the picasso.

Paris, Strasbourg and the Alsace, if I remember correctly.

Ford Mondeo in disguise.

Originally Posted by cyrille

Ah yes, the picasso.

Paris, Strasbourg and the Alsace, if I remember correctly.

Ford Mondeo in disguise.

what?

Originally Posted by cyrille

Which part did you not understand?

the last sentence

What a tiresome wanker you’ve been for years now.

Originally Posted by cyrille

What a tiresome wanker you’ve been for years now.

I'm not the one making a fukin ridiculous comparison between a piece of plastic French shite and a German engineered well built car., you tiiresome twat

Originally Posted by cyrille

What a tiresome wanker you’ve been for years now.

The irony

Originally Posted by Joe 90

The irony

we gets quite narky when someone calls him out on a post, he's posted quite a bit of gibberish after a few sundowners today bless i'm

Originally Posted by cyrille

the picasso.

Originally Posted by cyrille

Ford Mondeo in disguise.

Fucking good disquise then


Bristol Car Hire from £2 day - 100% Lowest Price Guaranteed! (carjet.com)

Seems like the nearest 'Rent a Wreck' is in Portsmouth

I've just bought vw polo 1.2 for my eldest, full mot, 60k miles for less than Mendy is gonna pay for a months rental.
Just sayin'..

Originally Posted by cyrille

Ah yes, the picasso.

Paris, Strasbourg and the Alsace, if I remember correctly.

Ford Mondeo in disguise.

Originally Posted by cyrille

Which part did you not understand?

Do you really need the 'I hired one once' and 'We went to' plus 'it was like a' bits?

Surprising, given your general posting 'style'.

Generally, yes most people do need the words in order to form meaning from complete sentences. As surprising as that may be to you.

Otherwise it’s like you are playing a David44 version of cryptic crossword with each post.

What Ciz knows about cars you can write on the back of a postage stamp.
Stick to what you know...polishing your cctv

Willy criticising my English.

Well, there's plenty for me to think about here. In my naivety I thought I could just do an internet search and pick the cheapest. Half of the buggers don't even reply to inquiries and I'm starting to realise how lucky I was r#to have that RAV4 available for the past few years.

Last year when I picked it up there were cobwebs around the wing mirrors and a caked-on seagull shit dried rock-hard onto the windscreen. I think I may have been the only person using it for a few years.

Originally Posted by Joe 90

I bet its still on the driveway gathering dust.
A polite and sincere email could save you a grand

But lose me some self respect from old family friends... ?

Mind you, self respect don't pay the bills!

Originally Posted by aging one

Take the Rio.

I may well end doing this, but it's so small. After driving the Vigo in Thailand I find that any normal car is easy to park so that isn't such an issue...

Originally Posted by malmomike77

focus's are nice cars too.

Yeah, they replaced the Escort, yes? I'm a bit out of touch.

Originally Posted by Shutree

The catch with buying and selling a car in UK is, for me and maybe for you, I have no insurance history for the past decade so they treat me like a newbie. That is, expensive.
I too used to use second tier car hire companies for long leave. All fine, only not the shiniest plate in the car park. They seem to have disappeared.

The last car I owned in the UK was an Orion Ghia 1600i and I sold that around 1995. Insurance would cost me a bomb these days. Not to mention the hassle of buying and selling and sorting the insurance out. This is supposed to be a holiday.

And yes, where have all the small independent garages that used to hire cars gone?

Originally Posted by Joe 90

The weather is lovely, get yourself a tent for £50. Job done.

Originally Posted by cyrille

Get a better car and buy some camping gear at Decathlon before you leave.

Use the car as a rolling wardrobe.

You'll both have a holiday to remember.

I guess there's something to be said for camping. We used to go camping as a family in the back garden, but back then the daughter was a baby and there was the chance of some hanky panky once she'd fallen asleep. Or while she was still awake, for that matter. Babies don't really respond to anything.

Do tents come with Wifi these days? That would be a deal breaker for the daughter.

Originally Posted by cyrille

I thought you said you were over there for a month in total, much of it spent at your mums?

Yes correct, but that would still leave around two weeks of camping. Also a tent would use up a big portion of my luggage allowance that I've set aside for Cheddar cheese.

My Welsh mate is a big advocate of camper vans. I can see the advantages but driving one down the village just to get an icecream seems like a lot of hassle.

He took his wife and son to Wales last year and they spent a good portion of the 'holiday' incarcerated in this thing and I don't think his wife was a happy 'camper'. Not only was she holidaying in a third world country but she says she doesn't want to spend another holiday, and I quote, 'shitting in a van'.

Originally Posted by Reg Dingle

Right, I've got it all planned out for you mate and a nice saving to boot.

Let's not go down the car pun route, it would drive me nuts!

Don't get me wrong, I appreciate the effort you've made... but the hassle... I'll be staying in rural Somerset, not some inner city ghetto with all the mod cons. I only get O2 coverage at one end of the house when I hold the phone up against the window. I just want to pick up a car on day one and return it on day 28, job done.

So, this Turo? Car sharing? Like Air B&B for cars?

Maybe I could share out the Vigo while I'm away to offset some of the huge cost of this holiday?

Originally Posted by Mendip

Also a tent would use up a big portion of my luggage allowance

You do realise that you can hire camping equipment in the UK? You don't need to schlep it across half the world for two week camping trip.

^ And room for geological hammers, they're not light.

It's the daughter's birthday next week and she doesn't know it, but one of her pressies is a new geological hammer.

Well, when I say 'new', it's my old one but I'm going to polish it up. Lyme Regis here we come!

And thanks to everyone for all the camping advice, but I don't want to go camping.

One idea Joe, if you enjoy it so much, you take my daughter camping for a week and I'll have a much needed week of commitment-free, non-parenting, heavy cider drinking?

I'll even get you a tent at Aldi! You can keep it.

I can get a Kia Rio for £960 for 4 weeks, maybe for £800 at a different place (but they seem a bit dodgy), or a Peugeot 2008 for £980. I don't know either car, but the Peugeot looks nice.

Originally Posted by Mendip

but the Peugeot looks nice.

I'd say get the Peugeot then you will have more storage in a smaller SUV. Good job researching.

Originally Posted by Stumpy

Is Heinz the top shelf in the runny bean offerings?

One would think so

^^ I've just confirmed and paid the deposit on a Peugeot 2008. It looks nice in the pctures.

The cost of this holiday so far is nearly £6k and and that's only with 5 days in Dorset booked. I'm considering a few days in the Mumbles as well if the weather's nice. Plus cider of course.

Plus a couple of pre and post holiday days in Bangkok, although they will be tame with the daughter in tow. It' a shame that bars don't do a kind of creche thing.

Crèche? How old is your daughter?