Estate, Diesel, VAG or Volvo sought.
 

Interested in buying a used car on the 25th of September, or after, the North, please.
Has to be Estate and diesel, and no leather interior as my Vegan baby sister is going to kill me for that!
Skoda, Audi, Volkswagen (VW), or even a Volvo!
Age range I can afford is probably 2001 to 2005, but who knows!

My 530d ticks most of the boxes:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2719522812...84.m1555.l2649

It's even got leather seats that uses only the leather of cows that have died naturally after a long and fulfilled life ;)

Distance isn't a problem either as I'd happily give it one final long blast up north!

Oh, maybe I should have added how much I could afford, rather than the age range. I wish I could afford your 530d, it's a bit too far off what i can afford, sadly.

Would recommend a Skoda Octavia, older ones are mechanically simple(ish).
Volvo are good too but you'll maybe need to spend more?

I do like the Skoda Octavia Estates and I have seen a few within my budget on Autotrader. I am a bit wary of eBay, unless of course it's someone on here! So Volvos are generally dearer, you reckon?

I'm thinking you have budget of 1-2.5k.

What about vw passats? I think your find them in your price range. I had them before I got into Audi's. Built like tanks, cheap to run and parts easy to come by. Also nice and plush inside with loads of room.

Yes, with Volkswagen I meant VW, just corrected it.

Another vouch for Skoda Octavia, they got the simple McPherson set up unlike the multilink crap that the Audi's and VW Passat's got.

Think thats because the Octavia shares the Golf's platform, it was the Superb that was related to the Passat/A4. Having said that its no slur, a couple of the lads at work run Octavias, one of them has interstellar mileage and is still happily trotting to London and back most weekends as his son lives near there!

You should be able to get into a 57 plate pre facelift for about £1500-2000?