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seems I've forgotten to put mine on here.
£300 bought in August, got through the MOT with a small weld, and exhaust clamp and a ball joint.
left me at the roadside once due to corroded wire which made it cut out (driving through puddles is bad mkay)
should have binned it last week when the clutch went but just got it fixed.
Have been properly recording every bit of fuel put in and each repair..
£300 bought in August, got through the MOT with a small weld, and exhaust clamp and a ball joint.
left me at the roadside once due to corroded wire which made it cut out (driving through puddles is bad mkay)
should have binned it last week when the clutch went but just got it fixed.
Have been properly recording every bit of fuel put in and each repair..
| Costs Over 8 Months and 8,880 miles | Total | Per Month | Per Mile |
| Fuel (188 gallons @ 47.3 mpg): | £1,100 | £138 | 12.4p |
| Running Costs | |||
| Major Breakdown: | £280 | ||
| Minor Breakdown: | £70 | ||
| Tyres: | £13 | ||
| Servicing/Repairs: | £208 | ||
| Total Running Costs: | £571 | £71 | 6.4p |
| Total: | £1,671 | £209 | £0.19 |
Edited by gowmonster on Wednesday 2nd April 03:12
I may have just spent £200 on a MK3 mondy 2.0 petrol. No Tax 2 months test. Totally unseen hopefully going to pick it up tonight (300 mile round trip), is being tax at cost for me. Hopefully will get to work for 6am tomorrow! Annoying got rid of my last shed in jan a 274000 mile picasso, having spent 3.5 times as much of the cost of the mondy on a engine rebuild for my old van which shat itself this morning.
V Reg Seat Toledo 1.9 TDI. Bought with 10 months MOT and tax and every consumable replaced (including bushes) in the last year or so. 97k and full documented history. Paid £1750.
In the last 7 days it's covered 1400 miles including the Wrynose and Hardknott passes and some of the steeper parts of the North Yorkshire moors. No knocks, rattles, nothing bad at all. Definitely a keeper.
Shame it's purple.
In the last 7 days it's covered 1400 miles including the Wrynose and Hardknott passes and some of the steeper parts of the North Yorkshire moors. No knocks, rattles, nothing bad at all. Definitely a keeper.
Shame it's purple.
Was looking at (unhappily) selling my MX-5 and buying something with 5 seats and a good boot. Had £1000+ what I could get part-ex for the Mazda.
Was chatting with my neighbour about it and found he was trying to sell his car... needed some cheap tyres and a little tweak to the PAS pump. I thought about it then decided to go for it
11 months MOT, 5 months tax, 2.0TD (no HG issues and 45-50mpg), new cam and fan belts, oil was fresh, with comfy seats and CD player. As a bonus I bought AND insured it within my £1000 so I could keep the MX-5
Was chatting with my neighbour about it and found he was trying to sell his car... needed some cheap tyres and a little tweak to the PAS pump. I thought about it then decided to go for it
11 months MOT, 5 months tax, 2.0TD (no HG issues and 45-50mpg), new cam and fan belts, oil was fresh, with comfy seats and CD player. As a bonus I bought AND insured it within my £1000 so I could keep the MX-5
Roastie ITR said:
I wanted to use my VX220 & Integra Type R as little as possible over the winter, so the hunt begun for a winter shed upto £1k.
I bought this Escort GTI last weekend for £400. It has done 84k miles & the previous owner had the car for the last 13 years. Looking through the receipts for the last 3 years, it's had about £2k spent on it. Hopefully that means everthing has been done, rather than the fact that it's a money pit
Unfortunately, both arches are a little rusty and there is a crack in the back bumper, but then it is a 14 year old Ford
Everything seems to work as it should apart from the temerature guage, but I'm hoping that it is just going to be a new temerature sender.
Just to update this, I sold the Escort a few weeks ago for what I paid for it 16 months ago. It did have 11months MOT & a couple of months tax though.I bought this Escort GTI last weekend for £400. It has done 84k miles & the previous owner had the car for the last 13 years. Looking through the receipts for the last 3 years, it's had about £2k spent on it. Hopefully that means everthing has been done, rather than the fact that it's a money pit
Unfortunately, both arches are a little rusty and there is a crack in the back bumper, but then it is a 14 year old Ford
Everything seems to work as it should apart from the temerature guage, but I'm hoping that it is just going to be a new temerature sender.
Parked it on the main road at night & sold it within 12 hours
Cover 9k miles, biggest expense was a wheel bearing & CV boot (£50ish) to get through the MOT this year.
king said:
Over the years I have had 48 cars, from £50 drive them till the mot runs out shaggers to carefully researched and travelled all over the country looking for £20k motors and not even counting the brand new Mondeo/insignia company cars and the one that gave the least grief and despite not being lightning quick it put a smile on my face each and every time I got in it was a 15 year old at the time n reg audi a4 1.8ts. I got it off a polish guy, who had on his last trip to Krakow had loads of bushes, shocks, timing belt, water pump and various other bits done for pennies, and it drove tight as a 20k mile car, but just looked like an utter dog, hardened concrete splashed all over it, and once he was able to get finance he got a 3 year old Passat so I bought it off him for £500 with 6 months mot on it.
A mate was scrapping an x reg one so I swapped some bits off it and did some careful rattle can touch ups and a machine polish, changed a weeping water hose, did the oil and plugs and patched up the backbox. we drove it for 18 months without any issues, it sailed 2 mots, people at my mrs work said she must be getting paid too much driving fancy cars like that, then we sold it for just shy of a grand, and the buyer was delighted. the £14500 e60 we replaced it with was a huge disappointment after it and we regret selling it to this day. My second favourite snotter is my current ex taxi starship mileage 1.9pd Octavia, its quite worn so it rides really soft, supremely comfy, e32 comfy, does 60mpg and never ever misses a beat.
Edited by OldGermanHeaps on Sunday 29th June 13:05
Edited by OldGermanHeaps on Sunday 29th June 13:16
I just bought this little bug for only £750 and it drives very well and has only done 64000 and has 3 months tax and test.
I've just rattle canned and pulled out the sill on the car as it had the compulsory beetle dented sill but I decided today to get a small dent out of the door which was a mistake as I spent a couple of hours getting nowhere and tried repairing a couple of micro switches as it looks like it must have been previously owned by a gorilla as there's broken switches all over the car..
Hopefully once everything is sorted and it's had a full service it should owe me about £850..
The only problem I have with this car is I don't wish to spend too much on the old girl as I really wanted a nice low mileage mint Beetle but didn't have the money so this can do for a year till I either get bored with it or manage to save up and find the perfect car..
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