Best of the Bargain Basement Vol. 2
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Hoofy said:
Back. 
A brief history.
Ok, about four years ago, I bought a Mk3 Golf Cab for about £700.
Was good fun for 18 months but it was getting tired especially the gearbox (usual jolt from old auto boxes) so I decided to retire it (SORN).
I replaced it with a Volvo S60 2.4T for about £700. Ran that for about 18 months but the gearbox is also tired (it too had developed a jolt in the auto box). Am also getting a few dodgy warning lights.
Was going to scrap both of these but a contact had a gold MGF that he wanted to swap. He's handy with a spanner so I asked if he wanted the Volvo and Golf. Bizarrely, he said yes. So now he has two cars with little to no MOT and I have one MGF with a fresh MOT, a brand new roof and a hardtop. 72k miles on the clock.
Will sell the hardtop for about £250.
It looks and sounds like a gold vibrator.
Purchase price = £200?
Brilliant, £200 for a laugh even if it is gold! A brief history.
Ok, about four years ago, I bought a Mk3 Golf Cab for about £700.
Was good fun for 18 months but it was getting tired especially the gearbox (usual jolt from old auto boxes) so I decided to retire it (SORN).
I replaced it with a Volvo S60 2.4T for about £700. Ran that for about 18 months but the gearbox is also tired (it too had developed a jolt in the auto box). Am also getting a few dodgy warning lights.
Was going to scrap both of these but a contact had a gold MGF that he wanted to swap. He's handy with a spanner so I asked if he wanted the Volvo and Golf. Bizarrely, he said yes. So now he has two cars with little to no MOT and I have one MGF with a fresh MOT, a brand new roof and a hardtop. 72k miles on the clock.
Will sell the hardtop for about £250.
It looks and sounds like a gold vibrator.
Purchase price = £200?
Edited by Hoofy on Tuesday 29th November 17:33
A - W said:
Hoofy said:
Back.
A brief history.
Ok, about four years ago, I bought a Mk3 Golf Cab for about £700.
Was good fun for 18 months but it was getting tired especially the gearbox (usual jolt from old auto boxes) so I decided to retire it (SORN).
I replaced it with a Volvo S60 2.4T for about £700. Ran that for about 18 months but the gearbox is also tired (it too had developed a jolt in the auto box). Am also getting a few dodgy warning lights.
Was going to scrap both of these but a contact had a gold MGF that he wanted to swap. He's handy with a spanner so I asked if he wanted the Volvo and Golf. Bizarrely, he said yes. So now he has two cars with little to no MOT and I have one MGF with a fresh MOT, a brand new roof and a hardtop. 72k miles on the clock.
Will sell the hardtop for about £250.
It looks and sounds like a gold vibrator.
Purchase price = £200?
Brilliant, £200 for a laugh even if it is gold! A brief history.
Ok, about four years ago, I bought a Mk3 Golf Cab for about £700.
Was good fun for 18 months but it was getting tired especially the gearbox (usual jolt from old auto boxes) so I decided to retire it (SORN).
I replaced it with a Volvo S60 2.4T for about £700. Ran that for about 18 months but the gearbox is also tired (it too had developed a jolt in the auto box). Am also getting a few dodgy warning lights.
Was going to scrap both of these but a contact had a gold MGF that he wanted to swap. He's handy with a spanner so I asked if he wanted the Volvo and Golf. Bizarrely, he said yes. So now he has two cars with little to no MOT and I have one MGF with a fresh MOT, a brand new roof and a hardtop. 72k miles on the clock.
Will sell the hardtop for about £250.
It looks and sounds like a gold vibrator.
Purchase price = £200?
Edited by Hoofy on Tuesday 29th November 17:33
king glorious. Close the thread. Nothing will ever beat that.Arnold Cunningham said:
Have to admit I still use our old MGTF as a daily runaround. Worth nothing, but with the hardtop decent enough for the winter, and still great fun in the summer with the roof down, it is decent. Reliability, now, is good (there were a few things badly put together but I've long since fixed them).
It's old fashioned engineering, there's nothing on it that's difficult to fix.
Yeah, no high tech stuff that can go wrong and require a new module costing £3000 (unlike my old CLK55).It's old fashioned engineering, there's nothing on it that's difficult to fix.
Cigarette lighter doesn't work, though.
The Spruce goose said:
I have a love hate relationship with mgfs, I found ever day was this. I have fun and scared ffeelibgs at the same time when I used in over the winter. Great cars thou.
Does have a more sporty feel than the Volvo (not that anyone would have thought otherwise). People do seem harsh about the MGF but it isn't bad as a driver's car!Trabi601 said:
Hoofy said:
Back.
A brief history.
Ok, about four years ago, I bought a Mk3 Golf Cab for about £700.
Was good fun for 18 months but it was getting tired especially the gearbox (usual jolt from old auto boxes) so I decided to retire it (SORN).
I replaced it with a Volvo S60 2.4T for about £700. Ran that for about 18 months but the gearbox is also tired (it too had developed a jolt in the auto box). Am also getting a few dodgy warning lights.
Was going to scrap both of these but a contact had a gold MGF that he wanted to swap. He's handy with a spanner so I asked if he wanted the Volvo and Golf. Bizarrely, he said yes. So now he has two cars with little to no MOT and I have one MGF with a fresh MOT, a brand new roof and a hardtop. 72k miles on the clock.
Will sell the hardtop for about £250.
It looks and sounds like a gold vibrator.
Purchase price = £200?
Looks like the suspension needs pumping up.A brief history.
Ok, about four years ago, I bought a Mk3 Golf Cab for about £700.
Was good fun for 18 months but it was getting tired especially the gearbox (usual jolt from old auto boxes) so I decided to retire it (SORN).
I replaced it with a Volvo S60 2.4T for about £700. Ran that for about 18 months but the gearbox is also tired (it too had developed a jolt in the auto box). Am also getting a few dodgy warning lights.
Was going to scrap both of these but a contact had a gold MGF that he wanted to swap. He's handy with a spanner so I asked if he wanted the Volvo and Golf. Bizarrely, he said yes. So now he has two cars with little to no MOT and I have one MGF with a fresh MOT, a brand new roof and a hardtop. 72k miles on the clock.
Will sell the hardtop for about £250.
It looks and sounds like a gold vibrator.
Purchase price = £200?
Edited by Hoofy on Tuesday 29th November 17:33
Hainey said:
A - W said:
Hoofy said:
Back.
A brief history.
Ok, about four years ago, I bought a Mk3 Golf Cab for about £700.
Was good fun for 18 months but it was getting tired especially the gearbox (usual jolt from old auto boxes) so I decided to retire it (SORN).
I replaced it with a Volvo S60 2.4T for about £700. Ran that for about 18 months but the gearbox is also tired (it too had developed a jolt in the auto box). Am also getting a few dodgy warning lights.
Was going to scrap both of these but a contact had a gold MGF that he wanted to swap. He's handy with a spanner so I asked if he wanted the Volvo and Golf. Bizarrely, he said yes. So now he has two cars with little to no MOT and I have one MGF with a fresh MOT, a brand new roof and a hardtop. 72k miles on the clock.
Will sell the hardtop for about £250.
It looks and sounds like a gold vibrator.
Purchase price = £200?
Brilliant, £200 for a laugh even if it is gold! A brief history.
Ok, about four years ago, I bought a Mk3 Golf Cab for about £700.
Was good fun for 18 months but it was getting tired especially the gearbox (usual jolt from old auto boxes) so I decided to retire it (SORN).
I replaced it with a Volvo S60 2.4T for about £700. Ran that for about 18 months but the gearbox is also tired (it too had developed a jolt in the auto box). Am also getting a few dodgy warning lights.
Was going to scrap both of these but a contact had a gold MGF that he wanted to swap. He's handy with a spanner so I asked if he wanted the Volvo and Golf. Bizarrely, he said yes. So now he has two cars with little to no MOT and I have one MGF with a fresh MOT, a brand new roof and a hardtop. 72k miles on the clock.
Will sell the hardtop for about £250.
It looks and sounds like a gold vibrator.
Purchase price = £200?
Edited by Hoofy on Tuesday 29th November 17:33
Hoofy said:
Hainey said:
A - W said:
Hoofy said:
Back.
A brief history.
Ok, about four years ago, I bought a Mk3 Golf Cab for about £700.
Was good fun for 18 months but it was getting tired especially the gearbox (usual jolt from old auto boxes) so I decided to retire it (SORN).
I replaced it with a Volvo S60 2.4T for about £700. Ran that for about 18 months but the gearbox is also tired (it too had developed a jolt in the auto box). Am also getting a few dodgy warning lights.
Was going to scrap both of these but a contact had a gold MGF that he wanted to swap. He's handy with a spanner so I asked if he wanted the Volvo and Golf. Bizarrely, he said yes. So now he has two cars with little to no MOT and I have one MGF with a fresh MOT, a brand new roof and a hardtop. 72k miles on the clock.
Will sell the hardtop for about £250.
It looks and sounds like a gold vibrator.
Purchase price = £200?
Brilliant, £200 for a laugh even if it is gold! A brief history.
Ok, about four years ago, I bought a Mk3 Golf Cab for about £700.
Was good fun for 18 months but it was getting tired especially the gearbox (usual jolt from old auto boxes) so I decided to retire it (SORN).
I replaced it with a Volvo S60 2.4T for about £700. Ran that for about 18 months but the gearbox is also tired (it too had developed a jolt in the auto box). Am also getting a few dodgy warning lights.
Was going to scrap both of these but a contact had a gold MGF that he wanted to swap. He's handy with a spanner so I asked if he wanted the Volvo and Golf. Bizarrely, he said yes. So now he has two cars with little to no MOT and I have one MGF with a fresh MOT, a brand new roof and a hardtop. 72k miles on the clock.
Will sell the hardtop for about £250.
It looks and sounds like a gold vibrator.
Purchase price = £200?
Edited by Hoofy on Tuesday 29th November 17:33
A - W said:
Hoofy said:
Hainey said:
A - W said:
Hoofy said:
Back.
A brief history.
Ok, about four years ago, I bought a Mk3 Golf Cab for about £700.
Was good fun for 18 months but it was getting tired especially the gearbox (usual jolt from old auto boxes) so I decided to retire it (SORN).
I replaced it with a Volvo S60 2.4T for about £700. Ran that for about 18 months but the gearbox is also tired (it too had developed a jolt in the auto box). Am also getting a few dodgy warning lights.
Was going to scrap both of these but a contact had a gold MGF that he wanted to swap. He's handy with a spanner so I asked if he wanted the Volvo and Golf. Bizarrely, he said yes. So now he has two cars with little to no MOT and I have one MGF with a fresh MOT, a brand new roof and a hardtop. 72k miles on the clock.
Will sell the hardtop for about £250.
It looks and sounds like a gold vibrator.
Purchase price = £200?
Brilliant, £200 for a laugh even if it is gold! A brief history.
Ok, about four years ago, I bought a Mk3 Golf Cab for about £700.
Was good fun for 18 months but it was getting tired especially the gearbox (usual jolt from old auto boxes) so I decided to retire it (SORN).
I replaced it with a Volvo S60 2.4T for about £700. Ran that for about 18 months but the gearbox is also tired (it too had developed a jolt in the auto box). Am also getting a few dodgy warning lights.
Was going to scrap both of these but a contact had a gold MGF that he wanted to swap. He's handy with a spanner so I asked if he wanted the Volvo and Golf. Bizarrely, he said yes. So now he has two cars with little to no MOT and I have one MGF with a fresh MOT, a brand new roof and a hardtop. 72k miles on the clock.
Will sell the hardtop for about £250.
It looks and sounds like a gold vibrator.
Purchase price = £200?
Edited by Hoofy on Tuesday 29th November 17:33
Emeye said:
Volvo T5 estate with black leather - MOT history not great but nothing major to worry about if engine and gearbox swap proof is there.
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2016...
Had a 2002 in the same colours as a commuter in the States. Best Q car out there, and probably my favourite car to date. No one expects a beige Volvo to be that fast. Very easy to work on also. Turning circle and drinking habits of an oil tanker though.http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2016...
Any love for my £50 Corsa I bought a year or so ago for my first car? Needed a new timing chain fitted which I luckily had one lying around. Fitted that myself and the interior needed a seriously deep clean, also which I could do myself. Racked up 40,000 miles in the first year and part exchanged it for £1,100. Only needed a new oil pressure switch in that whole time - bargain!
Petrolhead95 said:
Any love for my £50 Corsa I bought a year or so ago for my first car? Needed a new timing chain fitted which I luckily had one lying around. Fitted that myself and the interior needed a seriously deep clean, also which I could do myself. Racked up 40,000 miles in the first year and part exchanged it for £1,100. Only needed a new oil pressure switch in that whole time - bargain!
Hoofy said:
Petrolhead95 said:
Any love for my £50 Corsa I bought a year or so ago for my first car? Needed a new timing chain fitted which I luckily had one lying around. Fitted that myself and the interior needed a seriously deep clean, also which I could do myself. Racked up 40,000 miles in the first year and part exchanged it for £1,100. Only needed a new oil pressure switch in that whole time - bargain!
A friend of mine is selling this tidy old V6 Camry for £700. It's pretty likely someone from the MR2 scene will buy it just for the engine, but if anyone's interested I can put them in touch
advert said:
I bought this on 5th July 2016 and drove it a few hundred miles home. It drove really well.
My intention was to take the 1MZ V6 engine out to put into an MR2, but circumstances have changed and I now require the garage space.
Car is SORN'd but can be test driven on a small bit of private land where my garages are located.
Lots of history and well maintained. I even have the original bill of sale for £24,718.58. V5C is in my name. Number of former keepers only 3.
New cambelt fitted in March 2015 at 102,679 miles.
MOT expires 6 March 2017.
£700
My intention was to take the 1MZ V6 engine out to put into an MR2, but circumstances have changed and I now require the garage space.
Car is SORN'd but can be test driven on a small bit of private land where my garages are located.
Lots of history and well maintained. I even have the original bill of sale for £24,718.58. V5C is in my name. Number of former keepers only 3.
New cambelt fitted in March 2015 at 102,679 miles.
MOT expires 6 March 2017.
£700
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