Could this be the best car for £200?

[MoelyCrio]

^^^^thermostats usually. Alternators and voltage regulators go too. Other than that, bomb proof. I ran a P reg 1.3 GLi for 22000 miles over two winters.

[Willy Nilly]

My parents have had Skodas since 1980 when abject poverty forced them into a white, R. reg S110. They are now on their second Fabia Tdi. The Favorit engine is fine, I thrashed one mercilessly for 40,000 miles.

The second Felica mum and dad had had the VW 1.6 and it had cooling problems, thermostat and waterpump iirc. It was never right after that and died within 30 miles of it being taken in after it was traded.

Will we see this car squeezed into tight spaces along side badly parked cars?

[Liquid Knight]

I nearly bought them a Citroen Xantia TDi Estate and Lynn Auctions last month for £130! That had two weeks Tax and a months M.O.T

The only reason I didn't was because I can't stand the smell of diesel and Dad hates the French.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MNZALcCzSg

[Txspete]

I once bought a Fiat Uno 1.0 for £100. It had tax and mot but was one of the most uneconomical cars I have ever owned.

[fjord]

anonymous said:

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VW Polo 1.4i CL 3-dr, 1998S, 63k miles, £200

Bargain.

[Liquid Knight]

fjord said:

VW Polo 1.4i CL 3-dr, 1998S, 63k miles, £200

Bargain.

One I know of one that was just scrapped because the gearbox failed for the fifth time.



I was offered it for £100 and I did think of fitting a 1.8 20V Turbo but decided against it in the end.

[MG CHRIS]

Toaster Pilot said:

MG CHRIS said:

I can beat that bought a 2000 landrover freelander 2.5 v6 for £200 only needed a new transfer box which was a result.
Also bought a rover 216 convertiable for £90 put a mot on it only needing 2 bulbs and sold it 2 weeks later for 6 times my investment also sold the freelander for twice what I spent on it and getting it back on the road, this was only last month that was a good few weeks for me.

Where does stuff like that come from so ridiculously cheap?

A friend of mine asked me to do some work on a neighbours car when I went to pick the car up he had the freelander parked in the driveway and then showed me the rover in his garage. He was going to scrap both but he wanted them back on the road so I bought them for scrap value.

The plan was to strip the freelander for parts but the car was far to nice so fixed the transfer box and sold it. The rover on the other hand was a good buy put it through the mot expecting a list as it's been off the road for years was surprised to pass so easily. Then a contact of mine wanted a project for his wife and sold it there and then to him.

It doesn't happen very often but when it does it's very rewarding and pays well too.

[Wacky Racer]

How do you double the value of a Skoda?






Fill it with petrol......

[Slow]

Picked up a honda prelude 2.2 vtec for £200 off a mate, needed a new airbag and the front bumper fitted and it would of been road legal.

[320touring]

Looks a decent example,good work!
Just remember that that old pushrod lump needs its tappets doing occasionally..

Enjoy!

Hope you like 'on the doorhandles' bodyroll

[TheKobra]

Ah, just my kind of thread some highlights of my ebaying -
1998 Ford Fiesta 1.3, 70k miles - £250
2001 Citroen Saxo VTR, 112k miles - £340
1996 Peugeot 306 1.6, 116k miles - £216
1997 VW Polo 1.0, 82k miles - £175
1999 Alfa Romeo 156, 156k miles - £250

All with at least 6 months mot and some even came with tax!

[Liquid Knight]

I don't know if I mentioned it and the tread resurrection is an opportunity to do so.

The Skoda passed the M.O.T first time, cost dad £120 to insure via SAGA (would have been less if it had an alarm and my Panda wasn't in the garage) and £125 to Tax barring fuel costs he's on the road for a year for a grand total of £490

Okay more than double the original coast of the car but still a bargain.

[eybic]

I'll add my new (to me) shed to this and will add pics once I've picked it up but I've got an R 'reg Puma with 10 months MOT and no tax for £200. I haven't even seen it but apparently its a good car.

[Liquid Knight]

eybic said:

I'll add my new (to me) shed to this and will add pics once I've picked it up but I've got an R 'reg Puma with 10 months MOT and no tax for £200. I haven't even seen it but apparently its a good car.

I have an St170 engine to drop in there if the Yamaha bits are tired. Usual Ford rust spots (sections) and Fiesta suspension on a heavier car that gets chucked around more so suspension bushes, arms and linkages go pretty quickly.

Apart from that they are great little cars (unless it's the 1.4 Mazda/Zetec engine version, they're slow, use as much fuel as the 1.7 and secondary parts fail much quicker for some reason).

[Toaster Pilot]

Liquid Knight said:

I don't know if I mentioned it and the tread resurrection is an opportunity to do so.

The Skoda passed the M.O.T first time, cost dad £120 to insure via SAGA (would have been less if it had an alarm and my Panda wasn't in the garage) and £125 to Tax barring fuel costs he's on the road for a year for a grand total of £490

Okay more than double the original coast of the car but still a bargain.

That's awesome - what's it like for rust?

Is the gear linkage sloppy?

[Liquid Knight]

Toaster Pilot said:

Liquid Knight said:

I don't know if I mentioned it and the tread resurrection is an opportunity to do so.

The Skoda passed the M.O.T first time, cost dad £120 to insure via SAGA (would have been less if it had an alarm and my Panda wasn't in the garage) and £125 to Tax barring fuel costs he's on the road for a year for a grand total of £490

Okay more than double the original coast of the car but still a bargain.

That's awesome - what's it like for rust?

Is the gear linkage sloppy?

The gears are good and the rear arches are a little scabby. Uneven paint fade if I'm hypercritical but not for the money.

I recently paid nearly double the Skoda price for my Panda 4x4 and it's been a nightmare!

[Toaster Pilot]

Glad the gears are good - common fault and not that expensive to fix but a pain in the arse. Mine is currently immobile because I was changing the linkage along with the selector shaft oil seal to the gearbox and can't get all of the old seal out to press the new one in!

My car has done 165,600 miles, mind

[TurboBlue]

Am I doing this right?



On the left £300; on the right £460

Can't remember if they came with tax but at least one of them had a MoT

[xstian]

My old man has just brought a Peugeot 405 TD estate for £250. It had 10 months mot and 9 months tax. The guy even delivered it. Its has just gone past 250,000 miles, so just run in.

[Liquid Knight]

Nice Shoguns.

The 405 will be worth a small fortune in a few years. The company I register my cars for film work with paid £3,000 for a burgundy one to be used on set.

Check howmanyleft.co.uk the cooking fat cars of yesteryear are the collectibles of the future as they are considered disposable until someone notices how rare they've become.