Longyear
New member
Hello all,
I was pleased to find this awesome forum about a week ago, at the point I decided I was going to buy a Puma. I bought my first Puma yesterday, so thought it was time to join and say hi!
I'm in the North East of England, I'm 39 and over the last 20+ year I've owned many cars; some great, not so. I don't know how I managed to miss the Puma over that time, but I only recently became aware of just how great these little cars are. (And what unbelievable value for money they can be).
So..... yesterday, I bought a 2000 (W) Puma 1.7i which had been taken by a main Ford Dealer as a Part Ex. The car has 71k and a full Ford Service History from 2000 until Oct 2009. Since then it's had 2 comprehensive services by an independent Ford garage.
Here is a really crappy photo I just took with my really crappy phone (the wife has mislaid the digital camera, when it surfaces, I'll take some proper pics), just after I got the car :-
When I went to look at the car, I wasn't expecting much as it was only up for £995. However, I spent almost an hour thoroughly inspecting the car at the dealer and could not believe how 'straight' this car was. Everything from the fact that everything works perfectly (including fuel gauge & heater matrix!), down to the immaculate engine bay, clean, light brown, translucent oil, lovely pink coolant in the bottle (not topped up with water to the degree that the colour goes!).... the interior is stunning.
Of course, exterior wise, the car is absolutely lovely EXCEPT (you know what I'm going to say here) that both arches have bubbling. On one arch the paint has not broken yet, but the bubbling has caught hold of the car for sure. The other side has clearly been worse and has been repaired and painted, pretty badly from a cosmetic point of view. But it's not too bad, and I have a 'man' who runs a body repair business that will get the arches nice again.
The car drives literally like a new car, in fact (no offence here) but having owned only German cars for the last 5 years, I really cannot believe this is a W reg Ford !! There's not a rattle, and even the interior plastics look as new.
.... It was between this car and a red 1.4, but the 1.4 was a 1999 (T) for the same price, and although it had PERFECT arches, paint & body, the interior wasn't as nice and the mechanics not quite as tight. Plus of course, I really wanted a 1.7.
I got my Puma for £900 cash, with 10 months MOT, no tax (my wife has bought the tax today and I am like an excited child waiting for her to get back from town!!). Full Service History, 71k, HPi clear, no accidents whatsoever, every MOT, original user book etc.
I can absolutely say that for £900 this is without doubt the most stupidly good value car I have ever bought.
Very happy to have joined the Puma 'stable'
Cheers,
Longyear.
I was pleased to find this awesome forum about a week ago, at the point I decided I was going to buy a Puma. I bought my first Puma yesterday, so thought it was time to join and say hi!
I'm in the North East of England, I'm 39 and over the last 20+ year I've owned many cars; some great, not so. I don't know how I managed to miss the Puma over that time, but I only recently became aware of just how great these little cars are. (And what unbelievable value for money they can be).
So..... yesterday, I bought a 2000 (W) Puma 1.7i which had been taken by a main Ford Dealer as a Part Ex. The car has 71k and a full Ford Service History from 2000 until Oct 2009. Since then it's had 2 comprehensive services by an independent Ford garage.
Here is a really crappy photo I just took with my really crappy phone (the wife has mislaid the digital camera, when it surfaces, I'll take some proper pics), just after I got the car :-
When I went to look at the car, I wasn't expecting much as it was only up for £995. However, I spent almost an hour thoroughly inspecting the car at the dealer and could not believe how 'straight' this car was. Everything from the fact that everything works perfectly (including fuel gauge & heater matrix!), down to the immaculate engine bay, clean, light brown, translucent oil, lovely pink coolant in the bottle (not topped up with water to the degree that the colour goes!).... the interior is stunning.
Of course, exterior wise, the car is absolutely lovely EXCEPT (you know what I'm going to say here) that both arches have bubbling. On one arch the paint has not broken yet, but the bubbling has caught hold of the car for sure. The other side has clearly been worse and has been repaired and painted, pretty badly from a cosmetic point of view. But it's not too bad, and I have a 'man' who runs a body repair business that will get the arches nice again.
The car drives literally like a new car, in fact (no offence here) but having owned only German cars for the last 5 years, I really cannot believe this is a W reg Ford !! There's not a rattle, and even the interior plastics look as new.
.... It was between this car and a red 1.4, but the 1.4 was a 1999 (T) for the same price, and although it had PERFECT arches, paint & body, the interior wasn't as nice and the mechanics not quite as tight. Plus of course, I really wanted a 1.7.
I got my Puma for £900 cash, with 10 months MOT, no tax (my wife has bought the tax today and I am like an excited child waiting for her to get back from town!!). Full Service History, 71k, HPi clear, no accidents whatsoever, every MOT, original user book etc.
I can absolutely say that for £900 this is without doubt the most stupidly good value car I have ever bought.
Very happy to have joined the Puma 'stable'
Cheers,
Longyear.
