People Of France - help required

[Kev_mk3]

Is there a website like our Autotrader site over here as im looking for a specific car over in france but am not having much joy.

Any help would be great

Kev

[Paddy_NL]

google.fr?

[Kpy]

You could start with these:

http://www.autoreflex.com/

http://www.argusauto.com/occasion/

http://www.annonceauto.net/

[Kev_mk3]

thanks folks

[rcutler]

What are you after I am over there now. Office closed at 4pm now all i can think about is beer!

[Steve Pyro]

What are you after I am over there now. Office closed at 4pm now all i can think about is beer!

Not thinking about accommodating women Rick?

[Kev_mk3]

What are you after I am over there now. Office closed at 4pm now all i can think about is beer!

nothing special really, just a cheap astra estate or something for a run about over there for the parents. it will just be left in the garage while where in the uk and when at the house it will be used to get about, go the tip etc!

[rcutler]

What are you after I am over there now. Office closed at 4pm now all i can think about is beer!

Not thinking about accommodating women Rick?

Been here for two days none have really caught my eye. Must be the region.

[nopanic - neil]

What are you after I am over there now. Office closed at 4pm now all i can think about is beer!

Not thinking about accommodating women Rick?

Been here for two days none have really caught my eye. Must be the region.

Rick - Why are you throwing you glass eye at the girls again?   

[termietermite]

Many second hand cars are sold from people's driveways (not considered anything like as dodgy as that would be in the UK.)  Alternatively, I've got a couple of second hand cars for friends over here by asking my local garage and he did the searching for me.  The advantage of this is that he's prepared to guarantee them for a few months and finds what I want.  You'll have a lot more luck if you go for a froggy make as they're much more common.

You could also look here: http://www.totalfrance.com/france/classified.php?catid=10&subcatid=107

Whereabouts is your parents' place, btw?

[Bas]

Some good advice would be to have Kpy find a car for you.

When I first met him back in 2003 he was driving the grey (errr silver) Alfa Romeo featured in his avatar.
The thing was nothing but trouble and I gave it 6 months tops back then. 

Much to my amazement he was still driving that car at many a 24 Heures after that and it probably is still doing fine.

So my advice PM Kpy 

[Robspot]

nothing special really, just a cheap astra estate

Well there's a shock  

[Paddy_NL]

At least buy something French. Plenty more around than German - or whatever other make of cars, so probably more price-friendly too. Then again, second hand cars in France seem to be pretty expensive anyway.
French people tend to keep hold of them untill they fall apart completely

[JDS]

What are you after I am over there now. Office closed at 4pm now all i can think about is beer!

nothing special really, just a cheap astra estate or something for a run about over there for the parents. it will just be left in the garage while where in the uk and when at the house it will be used to get about, go the tip etc!

Does it have to be LHD? Second hand cars are WAY cheaper in the UK than in France. I have two 'runabouts' which live at various airports for when I'm commuting in/out of the land of hoppy leged ones. A 1999 Citroen Xsara in perfect nick for which I paid the princely sum of £700 and a 1999 Renault Megane (with lots of electric things, working A/C and alloys), again in excellent condition and it cost me a miserly £470 !! Both these cars would be well over €2500 in France. As Paddy says though, buy French, they don't cope well with other countries cars (took my wife 4 weeks to get the starter motor fixed on our V70!) and if left parked they just blend into the background so are completely anonymous.

[Lord Pig-Pen]

At least buy something French. Plenty more around than German - or whatever other make of cars, so probably more price-friendly too. Then again, second hand cars in France seem to be pretty expensive anyway.
French people tend to keep hold of them untill they fall apart completely

Anything french and diesel.... if you can prise the keys from their hand.
As Paddy said, The French seem to hang on to their old bangers until they die and all the stuff I have seen for sale on the roadside seemed to be very steep compared to old bangers over here.
I have just bought a P plate 1800 Diesel Escort of a nutter down the lane which will be legal soon..... should you be interested! Its cheap!!!!