Could this be the best car for £200?
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I've just bought this...
...1.3 Skoda Felicia Estate for £200 for Mum and Dad.
Seats five comfortably...
...cavernous boot...
...economical and bulletproof 1.3 Skoda engine with VW bits. Cheap to run, insure, lower tax bracket and hardly any modern stuff to go wrong.
Could this be the best car for £200?
Have a look for yourselves and feel free to comment and add to the thread.
...1.3 Skoda Felicia Estate for £200 for Mum and Dad.
Seats five comfortably...
...cavernous boot...
...economical and bulletproof 1.3 Skoda engine with VW bits. Cheap to run, insure, lower tax bracket and hardly any modern stuff to go wrong.
Could this be the best car for £200?
Have a look for yourselves and feel free to comment and add to the thread.
GC8 said:
No VW bits that Im aware of. The Felicia is a Fvorit which VW engineers re-worked to make fit.
The only petrol Felicia with any proper VW bits (exc. the steering wheel etc) is the 1.6l which used an old Golf engine.
I bought one and entered a charity rally with it. It was quite nippy but it still only had 1.3l brakes and suspension...
So nothing to go wrong then. The only petrol Felicia with any proper VW bits (exc. the steering wheel etc) is the 1.6l which used an old Golf engine.
I bought one and entered a charity rally with it. It was quite nippy but it still only had 1.3l brakes and suspension...
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
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
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.
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 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 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?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.
Is the gear linkage sloppy?
I recently paid nearly double the Skoda price for my Panda 4x4 and it's been a nightmare!
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.
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.
Toaster Pilot said:
Oh I meant to ask - did it come with a handbook ?
If so, any chance you could scan it? English ones seem to be hard to come by and quite a few people would appreciate access to a copy.
Yes it did. If you need any pages let me know. If so, any chance you could scan it? English ones seem to be hard to come by and quite a few people would appreciate access to a copy.
I noticed something very cool about the car earlier. The rear washer stops working if the bottle is less than a third full (to prioritise the front screen).
Just brilliant.
Tiger or lion said:
Kicked in door, smashed windscreen? All you need is the smell of old Kebab and you'll have a decent Minicab by Peterborough standards. 
320touring said:
Stenjay said:
Why would someone sell that for £200? The leather must be worth more than that, and the wheels..
I was offered it for that (mate's brother) as WBAC was offering that for it due to it needing work for an MOTI've known the car a while, so I chewed that particular hand off
I now have three Skodas on my watch list. Buy one, cut the springs in half, rough up the paint and cover a dent with stickers. Advertise it with the word "Dub Scene" in the heading and sell it for six times what it's worth.
Dad won't let me do it to his.
Toaster Pilot said:
Liquid Knight said:
I now have three Skodas on my watch list. Buy one, cut the springs in half, rough up the paint and cover a dent with stickers. Advertise it with the word "Dub Scene" in the heading and sell it for six times what it's worth.
I have a pre-dented/roughed up/knackered suspension one, can I sell it for thousands?
Toaster Pilot said:
Liquid Knight said:
Toaster Pilot said:
Liquid Knight said:
I now have three Skodas on my watch list. Buy one, cut the springs in half, rough up the paint and cover a dent with stickers. Advertise it with the word "Dub Scene" in the heading and sell it for six times what it's worth.
I have a pre-dented/roughed up/knackered suspension one, can I sell it for thousands?
iloveboost said:
Liquid Knight said:
I think the E36 was the last driving machine BMW made, since then they've all been drivers aids.
The E46 was exactly the same chassis but slightly stiffer/heavier plus one button to switch off DSC/ASC depending on model year. Hardly a chore! E36/E46 worse than the E90 in my experience in every way. You're like me you trust opinions to be fact a bit too often. 
320touring said:
Liquid Knight said:
Ah, but the E36 could be fixed by a mechanic. The E46 needs a technician (glove wearing nerd with a diagnosticmebob) to reset the ECU every time you change a spark plug.
The e36 is too complicated (Vanos FTL!)Give me an m20 that can be fixed with hammers and runs on anything above 91RON.
Anyway, back to the actual discussion, my e46 is good, but I think the lack of MOT/Tax goes against it
The chap I sold it to took the dash apart and dabbed some black paint on the ABS LED and sold it for £1,000!
These people are still out there. :roleyes:
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