Biggest bargain car you've bought
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In 1995, when wife was expecting our first kid, we sold her XR3i cabrio and we bought a 13 month old Nissan Terrano for £12K. New cost with the extras it had was £22K.
Had a further kid, drove all over Europe in it for holidays, put on mega miles, and sold it after 10 yrs for £3K. So less than £1K a year depreciation. In all that time the only issue was a blown brake light bulb.
Bloody loved that car.
Friends had Landrover Discos and Range Rovers that were never out of the garage.
Had a further kid, drove all over Europe in it for holidays, put on mega miles, and sold it after 10 yrs for £3K. So less than £1K a year depreciation. In all that time the only issue was a blown brake light bulb.
Bloody loved that car.
Friends had Landrover Discos and Range Rovers that were never out of the garage.
Edited by TwigtheWonderkid on Saturday 29th July 21:11
Acidrop said:
I always take my time before buying a new car as I like to pay as little as possible for the best car possible. I've wanted a BMW 335i for a while and it took a few months, but I found this in the end. 95k on the clock and has all the options. Paid £5k. 
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I did a similar deal 2 years ago, 9 year old 335i coupe with 84k that had FSH and needed some very very minor work for £5800. Magnificent car, enjoy![/url]
My other big bargain was a '00 Mini Cooper, one of the last built which I bought in 2007 for £1200 as the bottom end was knocking badly and gearbox was crunching. I spent about £500 fixing it and got offered £5000 for it a few days later without advertising it. It was the cleanest Mini I had ever seen, having had a new heritage shell and respray about 3 years before due to an accident.
Edited by markirl on Sunday 30th July 15:14
I paid the princely sum of $2750 for this pick-up truck in 2014. It is a 92 Ford F150 Flareside, with a stout 302 Windsor and 4x4. Absolutely everything works on it including the A/C, cruise, seat air bladders - all the usual stuff that fails first on old cars/trucks. It had $1k worth of tires on it. It had done 140k miles - now reading around 149k - not my only vehicle and I don't want to beat it up too much.
I've lost count of the offers I've had to sell it - people ring my door bell and ask if I'd sell it. Last offer was $5k. I'll never part with it.
I've lost count of the offers I've had to sell it - people ring my door bell and ask if I'd sell it. Last offer was $5k. I'll never part with it.
The wife and I bought a fairly decent, well if you can call a Mark 3 Golf Gti decent, from my brother in law for £800. Ran it for 6 months until someone ran into the back of it writing it off. Even although the other chap admitted full responsibility, his insurance company took ages to settle so we ran about in a brand new Golf Gt Tdi for nearly 4 months at their expense. When they did settle, they offered me nearly 2k. I didn't even bother to haggle with that.
The cost of the hire car was something like 70 quid a day. Mental.
I also managed to whip the twin hella headlight conversion off the car before it was taken for scrap, selling them for nearly £200 quid.
For a fairly crap car I did very well out of it. Well the wife did.
The cost of the hire car was something like 70 quid a day. Mental.
I also managed to whip the twin hella headlight conversion off the car before it was taken for scrap, selling them for nearly £200 quid.
For a fairly crap car I did very well out of it. Well the wife did.
layercake said:
Not a problem mate, obviously first come first served, do you have a link to the fb market place? there seem's to be a quite a few of them, is there one for cars? or is it everything
Well, the guy that bought it from me (P/T trader)Has now listed it for sale for £2k more than paid 3 weeks ago...no harm in that but the CAT-C marker obviously isn't declared...
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/16112938...
Also sold by me with 134k, know that it was taken abroad so likely another couple on there in addition.
Bought a 60 plate 50k VW Fox for £800, as the steering light was coming on, she'd been quoted all sorts for new pumps and racks, and she just wanted rid. Put a new battery on it, as it was the low voltage bringing the steering light on, and sold it to a car dealer for £1800. Next week he had it on his pitch at £3500
Swapped the supply and fit of a bathtub for a 50k mile Capri 2.0s that had been in a garage for 15 years.
Spent a week recommissioning it and it passed it's mot after I had a steering rack gator replaced for £40.
Ran it for 9 months and sold it for just under £4k around 5 years ago.
Wish I'd hung onto it as it was a minter.
Spent a week recommissioning it and it passed it's mot after I had a steering rack gator replaced for £40.
Ran it for 9 months and sold it for just under £4k around 5 years ago.
Wish I'd hung onto it as it was a minter.
Edited by crispian22 on Wednesday 2nd August 20:44
Edited by crispian22 on Wednesday 2nd August 20:45
2011 passat 1.6 tdi it was my neighbours sister s car it broke down on the road and was recovered to a vw dealer where they provided her with an estimated of €3900 to supply and fit a new egr and cooler, dpf and airbag clock spring. She wanted rid of it. I gave her €1500 for it. Fitted a new boost pressure sensor repaired a broken wire in the engine loom and a broken egr pipe a particle filter regeneration and it was running like a dream, full service and pads all around replaced the left front top shock mount left it driving very well. Two broken wires under the seat and one in the drivers door shut cured the airbag issue. A total of 280 euros in parts 1780 including purchase and three evenings work a quick spit shine and it sold for the princely sum of 5250
My most recent car, a ten month old BMW 330e order price of 45K but I paid 24K, I knew all of its history as it was my brothers lease car from his company, when he changed jobs it was going to go back to the lease company, thought I'd find out how much they wanted for it, glad I did.
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