I just Love my banger..

[Sten.]

I love shed motoring. I run a new X3 at the moment but strangely miss the little £500 Kia Picanto I had as a stop gap previously - no f**ks given motoring is so rewarding.

I remember I had a 1995 Primera some years ago I bought for £400 unseen on eBay. One night it was parked in a station car park and some chavs jumped up and down on the roof, caving it in. I had a bit of a moan, grabbed a big hammer from the garage and whacked it back out from the inside and the car soldiered on. Sold it a year later for £500.

Edited by Sten. on Sunday 18th December 11:52

[Tuvra]

Oilchange said:

Motoring doesn't have to be financially crippling, some might sneer as they drive by having spent £x000's on a dealer service but who's the clever one?

The one who makes enough money to make the thousands they are spending on a new car & servicing seem irrelevant, I would have thought

[haddock82]

My old rover 25!

£75 (seventy five quid!)

It had about 90k on the clock

Looked through the service history to see what I'd bought and under 15,000 mile before i got it:

- Brand new Cylinder head
- Full belts at same time
- Water pump
- Tyres
- Full service history

Ran it for about a year only needing a battery in the process (£25 trade price!)

Gave it to my sister as she needed a run around and i had 3 other cars at the time

Within 2 weeks she's killed it.... Although i got it recovered back here and had it fixed in about an hour (Earth strap had come off battery and some other electrical niggles) but no parts needed, just a bit of time fettling

[vixen1700]

Never bought a car as cheap as I did last Saturday. In fact I paid £400 more for my first car in 1985.

£1000 for a 2004 Volvo S40 diesel with 113k on the clock, and have to say I absolutely love it. Heated leather seats, CD, Air-con, 50 mpg, fast on the motorway, and tight as a drum. I actually look forward to coming to work each morning, well the drive anyway.

Bought something I thought I wouldn't care about, just to go up the motorway each day, but I've really fallen for the un-fashionable Swede. Think I'll even get some touch up paint for the supermarket car-park scratches.

[benjijames28]

The more I read the more I want a banger.

[Jaguar steve]

benjijames28 said:

The more I read the more I want a banger.

Get one. Why not?

No more worrying about dirt, dents and scratches. No agonizing about which brand of tyres you fit or if they all match or which oil or polish to buy. No more endless driving round car parks looking for a safe place to leave your P&J. No giving a toss about whatever the fine print says on insurance policies - just Google for the cheapest legal cover you can get. No sleepless nights troubling yourself about how much the depreciation is costing you every year or agonizing over trade in values or keeping a complete main dealer service history.

Cars make excellent servants but terrible masters and the bottom line is nobody else really worth knowing gives a st about whatever car you drive.

Just get one, and get on with your life. Incredibly liberating.

[SidewaysSi]

I have run expensive cars and bangers. But what I found is I personally don't neglect or don't care about something cheap. Still parked £500 cars in the corner of car parks and still washed and cared for them. We have a £900 50k mile Alfa 147 as a current shopping/station car.

Reality is that whilst cheap cars can be liberating, they are often pretty worn i.e. steering, suspension etc. So fine what what they are but usually fairly poor to drive.

Hence I don't just run one cheap car.

[vixen1700]

SidewaysSi said:

Reality is that whilst cheap cars can be liberating, they are often pretty worn i.e. steering, suspension etc. So fine what what they are but usually fairly poor to drive.

Probably my biggest fear last week setting off to buy a car for a grand.

I've had such a smile on my face about it all week as 600 miles in its company, it drives beautifully.

Chuffed to bits with it.

[Mr Snrub]

There are definite upsides to my £400 52 plate Civic. Every panel is dented anyway so I don't care if it picks up any more, I don't get cut up as people probably think I've got no insurance, it all works as it should bar the air con and it cost less to buy than some cars lose in value every month. That said, the suspension does feel pretty worn out, but it does what it needs to

[djt100]

I Paid less for my SAAB 93 than a friend paid to service his RS4 (oil change effectively) , and my SAAB has less miles and I didn't need to get a loan to buy it... I love my banger too

Edited by djt100 on Monday 31st October 08:53

[iSore]

I drive old BMW's. They're worth next to nothing, drive okay and used bits are cheap. I bought a 150'000 mile 1999 318i Estate in 2014 for £400. I've put 22'000 miles on, MOT'd it twice, put a new set of tyres on as well as pads, front dampers. Owes me about a grand all in. I was forced to clean out the interior today when I couldn't easily get three passengers in last night due to the fking state of it. I couldn't care less about keeping it clean but it does get serviced on the dot and mechanical issues resolved quickly.

It got a full set of Bosch wiper places today - I do them every year.