The most reliable car up to 100 thousand is the Toyota Yaris

There are plenty of small, cheap used cars, which the Slovaks and Slovaks liked, on our car market. How to make sure to choose the most reliable one to travel over time? Survey of an independent car service under the name Car reliability assessment from the point of view of Czech mechanics could help me.

A unique survey consisted of 239 professional mechanics, who evaluated the fifty most popular vehicles in the Czech Republic and Slovakia using the branded wheeled learning system. Parameters such as the reliability of the engine and its load, the failure of the electronics and the quality of the body were assessed. Toyota Yaris increased in the category of cheap cars up to one hundred thousand crowns. Renault Thalia II was the best.

Among cars up to one hundred thousand crowns, they rated a dozen of the best used cars on Czech roads, such as the Volkswagen Golf V, Ford Focus II, Renault Thalia, the Fabia I code, the Kia Ceed I, the Peugeot 206, the Opel Astra H, the Peugeot 207, the Ford Fusion, Toyota Yaris II, Hyundai i30 I, Hyundai Getz and Renault Thalia II.

The cars were not marked by the user, but by professional car mechanics, ie people who walk daily under their hands and thus determine the most frequent pins of failures. The arithmetic mean of the evaluation of these criteria resulted in a five-point scale of marks as in a round.

Toyota engine excellence

From the category up to one hundred thousand crowns, the Toyota Yaris II performed best in mechanics (production 20052011). The car subsequently received a score of 2.1 and would be recommended by as many as 86 percent of the mechanics surveyed. They appreciated the engine and electronics the most at nm. The body and the mounting of the engine received an above-average evaluation, summed up the director of the ProfiAuto project in the Czech Republic and Slovakia Jindich Krej.

According to him, the survey revealed the most frequent pins of failures. At the Toyota Yaris II, respondents mostly mentioned problems with corrosion, the air conditioning compressor, the water pump and epi zen.

The Volkswagen Golf V (2003-2008) and Hyundai i30 I (20072012) models took second place, with a result of 2.3. In the case of the Volkswagen Golf V, the cracking head of the 2.0 TDI engine proved to be unreliable, among other things. The Hyundai i30 I model also had a problem with the engine. The mechanics pointed out the location of the crank handle and the overall engine noise.

Renaulty suffered from corrosion

Ford Focus II (20042011) finished 2.7th in the price category up to one hundred thousand crowns with a rating of 2.7. On the contrary, the Renault Thalia II model (20082013) performed best in the surveys, to which the respondents gave it a mark of 3.2.

In all categories, he received a below-average rating. The experience of the mechanic suffers from corrosion, burning of headlight tips, problems with the exhaust, the wheel and the arms of the silentblock, described the development consultant ProfiAuto Service Luk Czauderna.

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According to Krej, the aim of the survey was to provide Czech people with a potential overview of the reliability of popular vehicles as well as potential buyers of cheap used cars.

Before buying a car, most people get the most reliable information about the selected model. You often make mistakes. In order to do so, they usually have to rely only on the advice of acquaintances or Internet evaluators. Only a few surveys compare cars with each other, and most of them do not reflect the situation on the Czech market, Krej explained.

The research took place last year and evaluated the fifty most popular cars in the Czech Republic, divided into three categories according to the purchase price. The survey took the form of questionnaires. The evaluated models were selected according to the data on registrations and car sales for the period 2004 and 2018 according to the Association of Car Importers.

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