Ssang Yong Korando
Anyone any thoughts on these as towcars, I have a Lunar 540/4 weighing 1380kgs.
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We bought one of these in March,a fwd 2.2 EX and we realy like it.We bought it to replace a Ford Kuga which some find hard to believe lol.Not as refined as the Ford but has all we want in a towcar for our 1300kg 'van,29-32 mpg towing 40 ish solo,80kg nose
weight on towbar.Great value with 5 year warranty,don't see many on road but guess that's because folk look upon them as too cheap to be any good which is rubbish.0 -
The new edition of Practical Caravan has a review of the korando.
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How did it fare in the road test PC did?It had favourable comments in tow car awards with Caravan club,but C&CC not so favourable
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So few good new tow cars available now they must be worth a look. Just watch the parts prices if you keep beyond 5 years. Very few sold so far so parts will be expensive and may be availability problems for some. But at the price what else is there??
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Wher's your evidence come from? Main dealers scarce but I have one on my doorstep and no reason why parts would be hard to source or over expensive,because they are not so common used parts/cheap pattern parts not going to be found but I only stick genuine
parts on any of vehicles and with a 5 year warranty...........0 -
It's the economy of scale. When it comes to parts the cars that are the most popular & have highest production will have the best parts supply & ultimatly the cheapest prices. Take my old Audi. Built on the same platform as the Golf, Scirrocco, Seat Leon,
Skoda etc etc. They made 0ver 900,000 on the same platform using the same range of engines. A lot of cars. I can get parts from Audi, VW, German Swedish French. Even Unipart supply parts for them. Bottom arms for example. Unipart list them for £20. They are
OEM quality. Not Chinese copy parts. Ssanyongs production target for all models is 3000 units for 2016 not including the Tivoli. You won't get parts from unipart for them! Since they will only be made by Ssanyong in Korea they will be more expensive. And any
problems at the factory. Say the batch runs out. They may not make another immediatly due to set up costs.... You probably will get parts but they will cost you. However a nearly new Korando can be bought for the price of a several year old European equivelent.
But you can't have it all. By the way Ssanyong are owned by Mahindra.0 -
Though I agree with your argument to a degree, I've found that a lot of pattern parts are cheap because .... they're cheaply made, not always, but often. Very often it's cheaper in the long run to bite the bullet & pay for OEM parts from the respective dealer,
especially if you're paying someone else to fit them.But then again I bought pattern rear springs for SWMBO's Astra at £30 a pair instead of Vauxhall's price of £160 .... different, but I'm sure not £130's worth of different
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Just a note. But GSF souce there parts from the original manufacturer. They also cross reference part no's. For instance you need a Porsche Ceyenne headlamp. It's identical to the VW tuareg. But the Vw part is cheaper. The part is identical. Only differece
is the box it comes in. However there are a lot of pattern parts often on ebay or similar that are made in China & definateley inferior quality. I only ever buy genuine parts when I can't souce them from reputable suppliers like GSF & Unipart. Parts for Ssanyong
will always be more as theres no competition. They only come from Ssanyong & they want to make money. They will charge what they can get. They don't make a lot on the new car so make up for it with the parts. At least until there selling many more Korandos
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So the cost of SSangyong spare parts make them a bad buy?Not so when you consider the thousands saved on purchase price compared to say a Kuga,same goes for the high depreciation we're told we'll suffer.
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It's the old story Harley and the answer is if you pay nowt for it you not gonna get a fortune back on trade in, all thing's are relevent.
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Yes mate I agree,Bought several Kia cars new since 2004 and never a bad one and depreciation not "horrendous" as I was advised it would be,all cars no matter what make depreciate.Badge snobbery stops a lot of people grabbing a bargain like the Ssangyong,I have an Adria caravan another good buy but again not popular
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I have a 2.2 se Ssangyong and at 16k it's a steal , maybe not to everyone's taste but hey ho , why pay 10 k extra to do the same thing , the 10 k extra will buy more toys , but all I want is something to tow the caravan and for general use . As Harley Dave
stated , He bought Kia since 2004 , it's not that long ago that Kia , Hyundai and going back to the 70s Datsun were an unknown quantity, look where they are now , doing very well I think but that's the benefit of hindsight . As Preston Dave says and it's true
to a point , You maybe won't get much back on trade in , however You won't have paid too much out and nicko I am sure You will be pleased when You get Your new carPaul
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remember skoda being the butt of jokes,well dont laugh now i have had 4 and believe me the cars are brilliant only thing that spoils them is greedy dealer in yorkshire,so why cant another korean dealer like kia do well,kia cars are good quality i expect
ssangyong to follow suit dont knock it until youve tried it i say!0 -
I had only seen one other Korando on the road since buying mine in March till today when one parked opposite me in Sainsbugs,so very thin on the ground to say the least.Kias were cheap to buy in 2004 when I bought my first one but now they have become established
not so cheap,SSangyongs will possibly go same route so make most of the bargain price0
