Pegeout 108 active. 17 plate

Haven’t had my car serviced yet, but it will probably be serviced at the dealer I bought it from yes.
That’s wonderful for him. I now find my car easier to drive as I’m used to it.
Well yeah, a newer car is obviously going to cost a lot more than a 2002 car. But I didn’t want something that would be likely to break down or cause me problems that I’d have to pay £££ to fix. And I know that if I do have problems with it, I can just take it back to the dealer. I’d much prefer to spend more on the car and less on repairs.

If people can afford to buy/lease/finance and maintain a newer car, why do YOU have a problem with it?
I’m guessing you have an 2002 Audi A2?

And then pay through the nose for diagnosis and repair.. why would you do that exactly?

I doubt that I’d be paying for regular repairs

I have a 2006 Volvo XC90 D5 and a 2009 Volvo V70 D5 now. Neither of those are suitable as starter cars.

My aim on this forum is to give the very best guidance and advice that I can.
Sometimes I find that I have to publicly disagree with the thoughts, or actions of other people in order to do this.

My advice for the vast majority of people - especially students - is that if you can afford to buy or lease a new car: DON'T!

Put your money into something else instead. Paying off your student loan or taking out a smaller loan in the first place would be reasonable. Or putting your money into bricks and mortar - buying a house - would be a sensible use of that money as well. As would spending it on career enhancing training or personal development. Or using it as seed money to start a business.

My advice to anyone is to adopt the tycoon mentality to spending money.

So that whenever you are thinking of spending money, you think "Can I buy the same thing, or something that will do the job just as well or better, somewhere else?"

I was referring to your comment "And I know that if I do have problems with it, I can just take it back to the dealer."

Okay and that’s fine, but people can do what they please with their money. OP wasn’t asking for advice on how to manage their money. Like I said before, not everyone wants a car that’s 15+ years old.

And how much did you pay to buy, or lease the car? How many thousands of pounds?

That's where the financial black hole is, sucking all your student funds. The purchase price.

You can't say that a car is not a financial black hole, just because one aspect of the cost of owning it and running it isn't too bad. You have to look at the total cost of everything:

Purchase price (depreciation plus loss of interest from not having the money invested elsewhere)
Insurance
Road tax
Fuel
Servicing including tyre costs
Repairs
MOT
Road tolls
Upgrade or customization costs (optional)
Breakdown cover (optional)
Parking costs

The OP was asking if the Pugeot 108 was a good first time car to buy.

And the answer is: NO. Especially not if it's new or nearly new.

It's a poor car to buy for £14,000. It will become an average car to buy when it's used enough to buy it for £1000.
My posts in this thread have merely been justifying and explaining why it is a poor to average car to buy.

Does anyone own a pegeout 108 is it a good first time car ?

...It’s not £14,000 either

That all depends what options you go for on a brand new Peugeot 108 and how much of a discount you get.

For example:
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/new/201910183460403?radius=1500&make=PEUGEOT&advertising-location=at_cars&postcode=sw1a2jl&model=108&sort=price-desc&onesearchad=Used&onesearchad=Nearly%20New&onesearchad=New&page=1

I have one, mines a 16 plate. Had it for a few months now. Great little car (despite what others have said on this thread). Really easy to park, cheap to fill. cheap to insure. I’ve not had any issues with it as of yet. It’s my first car so I was stalling it a lot at the beginning thinking that there was something wrong with it, but it was just my own driver error. I’ve taken it on long journeys and it’s been fine. Its labelled as a city car but it does fine on A roads and motorways. It’s not a BMW , you’re not going to get up to high speed in record time, but that’s kind of expected with a 1L car. Boot is pretty small. Can only fit about maybe 5-6 bags of shopping. My friend has a 15 plate Aygo, and they’re basically the same car. If you’ve got any other questions, just let me know.