Best of the Bargain Basement Vol. 2

[egor110]

Globs said:

sleepera6 said:

Wouldn't do it if I was you - I couldn't get £100 even, my asking price was £300. Sold it for £75 and it ran and drove

What did you sell - was it a Saab convertible?

Surely you'd scrap it for more than £100 ?

The leather seats and sid display would be worth more than that?

[anonymous-user]

egor110 said:

Globs said:

sleepera6 said:

Wouldn't do it if I was you - I couldn't get £100 even, my asking price was £300. Sold it for £75 and it ran and drove

What did you sell - was it a Saab convertible?

Surely you'd scrap it for more than £100 ?

The leather seats and sid display would be worth more than that?

Saab 93 Turbo 2.0T

Had full leather interior, previous owner fitted some mint genuine Saab alloys, had a huge stack of paperwork including a £3000 bill for work done in 2010, had small rust patch n/s f wheelarch. Previous owner also fitted an aftermarket stereo which sounded great and did the LCD display.

I listed it up for £300, no one called
3 weeks later, £200. Had 2 offers, both for £50 which is fking ridiculous

So in the end 2 months later the scrapman came and took it away for £75. Fed up with it, as it was a shocking drive and no one wanted it. I should of took the alloys but I took the stereo anyway

Ran and drove well

[anonymous-user]

Just in case you don't believe me, as I have had doubters on here

Why would anyone make up a story about them getting rid of a POS £100 Saab

[Big Rod]

PoleDriver said:

Jimmy Recard said:

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2017...



Any good for a bit of towing? I've got some memory that the towing capacity on these was 3500kg, or is that wrong?

Engine power 118 bhp
Engine size 2874 cc
Brochure Engine size 2.9 litres
Acceleration (0-60mph) 18.2 seconds
Top speed 97 mph

I've always secretly liked them too.

They did produce a faster 3.2 V6 petrol one but I believe they're quite rare.

[Matt-il77s]

As cheap as motoring gets?

10 months' tax, £200





https://www.gumtree.com/p/fiat/fiat-seicento-1.2cc...

[Jimmy Recard]

It could have a million years tax, but it won't be much good to you once you've bought it and signed the V5, will it?

Ten months MOT will be useful though!
Good spot. I like Seicentos

[anonymous-user]

good cars, not 0-60 fast but you can hussle them fast on b roads. don;t crash though you will die, they are very exposed.

[Buff Mchugelarge]

The Spruce goose said:

good cars, not 0-60 fast but you can hussle them fast on b roads. don;t crash though you will die, they are very exposed.

I had a Seicento Sporting for a very enjoyable 14k miles. To this day I've not done so many 'for the sake of a drive' miles in any other car.
Ludicrous amounts of fun, and mine never once gave me any trouble despite me revving it to death every day.
Best not watch the Ncap crash tests though..

[Matt-il77s]

Buff Mchugelarge said:

I had a Seicento Sporting for a very enjoyable 14k miles. To this day I've not done so many 'for the sake of a drive' miles in any other car.
Ludicrous amounts of fun, and mine never once gave me any trouble despite me revving it to death every day.
Best not watch the Ncap crash tests though..

The one in the ad is a 1.1 which is the same engine as the Sporting? I think the others were 1.0

My mum had a yellow Cinquento Sporting on a N reg back in the 90s, the red seatbelts were great as a kid.

[Slow]

Big Rod said:

PoleDriver said:

Jimmy Recard said:

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2017...



Any good for a bit of towing? I've got some memory that the towing capacity on these was 3500kg, or is that wrong?

Engine power 118 bhp
Engine size 2874 cc
Brochure Engine size 2.9 litres
Acceleration (0-60mph) 18.2 seconds
Top speed 97 mph

I've always secretly liked them too.

They did produce a faster 3.2 V6 petrol one but I believe they're quite rare.

That's the early non turbo one I believe. Boost can be screwed up as it's the merc OM602 engine if I remember right.

On my phone so just screenshots of the wiki but if you ignore the looks the car isn't actually bad. Mostly merc stuff.

[l354uge]

Well that didn't take long...



£800, 88k miles and all the common problems have been sorted!

Never had a convertible before, great fun! Brakes are a bit crap though..

[Hoofy]

[funkyrobot]

Still on the lookout for an estate or something hatch wise with a big boot.

Enquired about an E class a few days ago. Sold. Enquired about a Focus a few days ago. Sold. Enquired about a Focus today. Sold.



Now is the time for me to be looking as on annual leave until Tuesday and have a nice hire car to utilise (family holiday trips over the weekend cancelled due to illness).

[TonyRPH]

@funkyrobot

Also consider a Skoda estate - I ran a 1.8T for a while and apart from the soft suspension, it was a nice car overall.

Reliable and cheap to run as well.

[l354uge]

Take a look at mazda 6 estates too, should have s similar sized boot to a octavia but go for peanuts at the moment. They do like to rust though...

[Hoofy]

Where are you looking? There are loads of cars on AT if you extend the distance out a little.

[egor110]

Surely a saab 9-5 estate is available for a grand?

[Hoofy]

Or an S60. Could probably pick one up with about 100k on the clock for £700.

[Vitorio]

Matt-il77s said:

The one in the ad is a 1.1 which is the same engine as the Sporting? I think the others were 1.0

My mum had a yellow Cinquento Sporting on a N reg back in the 90s, the red seatbelts were great as a kid.

The standard cinq, and early standard seis came with a 899 cc pushrod engine, based around a pretty old design. The sportings and later seis all came with a 55hp 1.1 FIRE engine (which is overhead cam). cinqs and seis all had SPI injection, later 1.1 seis had MPI

[Jazoli]

funkyrobot said:

Still on the lookout for an estate or something hatch wise with a big boot.

Enquired about an E class a few days ago. Sold. Enquired about a Focus a few days ago. Sold. Enquired about a Focus today. Sold.



Now is the time for me to be looking as on annual leave until Tuesday and have a nice hire car to utilise (family holiday trips over the weekend cancelled due to illness).

I've a decent Octavia VRS that can be had for top bargain basement money as I am buying something topless