What is your best car deal ever?
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What is you best car deal ever and how you got it?
I am sort of a diy kind of man and I have always worked on my cars.
I needed a banger since my real car never comes out of the garage during snow/salt season. Something cheap, but still something that is a car, not a korean golf cart.
I went shopping and found a nice very very clean VW Golf IV. With a 1.4 liter AHW engine so its cheap to run and to insure.
However, all locks besides passenger lock were deadlocked and doors could not be opened. If you cant get in the price comes down. It was a steal. I just spent 15 minutes/door with a home made slim jim and now all the doors are open and all the locks working!
Best deal ever!
I am sort of a diy kind of man and I have always worked on my cars.
I needed a banger since my real car never comes out of the garage during snow/salt season. Something cheap, but still something that is a car, not a korean golf cart.
I went shopping and found a nice very very clean VW Golf IV. With a 1.4 liter AHW engine so its cheap to run and to insure.
However, all locks besides passenger lock were deadlocked and doors could not be opened. If you cant get in the price comes down. It was a steal. I just spent 15 minutes/door with a home made slim jim and now all the doors are open and all the locks working!
Best deal ever!
8balls said:
What is you best car deal ever and how you got it?
I am sort of a diy kind of man and I have always worked on my cars.
I needed a banger since my real car never comes out of the garage during snow/salt season. Something cheap, but still something that is a car, not a korean golf cart.
I went shopping and found a nice very very clean VW Golf IV. With a 1.4 liter AHW engine so its cheap to run and to insure.
However, all locks besides passenger lock were deadlocked and doors could not be opened. If you cant get in the price comes down. It was a steal. I just spent 15 minutes/door with a home made slim jim and now all the doors are open and all the locks working!
Best deal ever!
Literally?I am sort of a diy kind of man and I have always worked on my cars.
I needed a banger since my real car never comes out of the garage during snow/salt season. Something cheap, but still something that is a car, not a korean golf cart.
I went shopping and found a nice very very clean VW Golf IV. With a 1.4 liter AHW engine so its cheap to run and to insure.
However, all locks besides passenger lock were deadlocked and doors could not be opened. If you cant get in the price comes down. It was a steal. I just spent 15 minutes/door with a home made slim jim and now all the doors are open and all the locks working!
Best deal ever!
Burny16v said:
8balls said:
What is you best car deal ever and how you got it?
I am sort of a diy kind of man and I have always worked on my cars.
I needed a banger since my real car never comes out of the garage during snow/salt season. Something cheap, but still something that is a car, not a korean golf cart.
I went shopping and found a nice very very clean VW Golf IV. With a 1.4 liter AHW engine so its cheap to run and to insure.
However, all locks besides passenger lock were deadlocked and doors could not be opened. If you cant get in the price comes down. It was a steal. I just spent 15 minutes/door with a home made slim jim and now all the doors are open and all the locks working!
Best deal ever!
Literally?I am sort of a diy kind of man and I have always worked on my cars.
I needed a banger since my real car never comes out of the garage during snow/salt season. Something cheap, but still something that is a car, not a korean golf cart.
I went shopping and found a nice very very clean VW Golf IV. With a 1.4 liter AHW engine so its cheap to run and to insure.
However, all locks besides passenger lock were deadlocked and doors could not be opened. If you cant get in the price comes down. It was a steal. I just spent 15 minutes/door with a home made slim jim and now all the doors are open and all the locks working!
Best deal ever!
8balls said:
What is you best car deal ever and how you got it?
I am sort of a diy kind of man and I have always worked on my cars.
I needed a banger since my real car never comes out of the garage during snow/salt season. Something cheap, but still something that is a car, not a korean golf cart.
I went shopping and found a nice very very clean VW Golf IV. With a 1.4 liter AHW engine so its cheap to run and to insure.
However, all locks besides passenger lock were deadlocked and doors could not be opened. If you cant get in the price comes down. It was a steal. I just spent 15 minutes/door with a home made slim jim and now all the doors are open and all the locks working!
Best deal ever!
Tell us how much you effing payed for it then? Otherwise how are we supposed to know it was a good deal. Facepalm.I am sort of a diy kind of man and I have always worked on my cars.
I needed a banger since my real car never comes out of the garage during snow/salt season. Something cheap, but still something that is a car, not a korean golf cart.
I went shopping and found a nice very very clean VW Golf IV. With a 1.4 liter AHW engine so its cheap to run and to insure.
However, all locks besides passenger lock were deadlocked and doors could not be opened. If you cant get in the price comes down. It was a steal. I just spent 15 minutes/door with a home made slim jim and now all the doors are open and all the locks working!
Best deal ever!
was at a car auction and a peach of a 5 series came through, calssic one, about 1984 year, in met green, 2.0 manual silly low miles and a minter.
it went through the auction and i didnt think it had a bid, after the auction i spotted someone getting into the car, went to congratulate the new owner, however it was not the new owner it was a lady who owned it and was just wanting to sell it and was not best pleased that it didnt sell, so she said give me £200 and its yours.
paid her for it and drove it home, it was like driving a new car, full history in glove box ect.
run it for a bit then sold it for £1200.
happy days
it went through the auction and i didnt think it had a bid, after the auction i spotted someone getting into the car, went to congratulate the new owner, however it was not the new owner it was a lady who owned it and was just wanting to sell it and was not best pleased that it didnt sell, so she said give me £200 and its yours.
paid her for it and drove it home, it was like driving a new car, full history in glove box ect.
run it for a bit then sold it for £1200.
happy days
Rare(ish) 1970 Alfa Spider, 1750cc, in right hand drive, only about 250 made. In good condition and lots of history. 6k. Thought I got a rather good deal there Don't think the garage selling it knew quite what they had
Ford KA 8000 miles on the clock 3 years old, less than 4k, which I also think is a good deal, basically a new car for 1/3 book price
Back in the day bought an old Ford Fiesta MKIII for £300, it lasted a while, till I sold it, then the engine blew up on the new owner 6 months after he bought it. But I never had to spend any money on it. Another good deal/lucky escape...
Don't think the garage selling it knew quite what they had Ford KA 8000 miles on the clock 3 years old, less than 4k, which I also think is a good deal, basically a new car for 1/3 book price
Back in the day bought an old Ford Fiesta MKIII for £300, it lasted a while, till I sold it, then the engine blew up on the new owner 6 months after he bought it. But I never had to spend any money on it. Another good deal/lucky escape...
about 5 years ago, I picked up a late 80's maxda 323 auto, T&T for 6 months, half a tank of petrol and most things pretty much worked but it would not start. £12 for a battery, car was fine. Paid precisely £0.00 for it! Drove it for about 3 weeks and it was great fun, in its own way. Door locks didnt work but really, who was going to steal it anyway I thought. Got knicked so I didnt even have to get rid of the damn thing. Only got it as it was cheaper than my train fair home and it was a cold day!
£12 for almost 3 weeks motoring, including fuel, cant argue with that!
£12 for almost 3 weeks motoring, including fuel, cant argue with that!
Needed a multi seat vehicle for a holiday we were planning with friends. Took a chance on a Transit tourneo which was broken down in a garage where the mechanics had driven it up and down the road and pronounce it needed an engine rebuild.
Bought for a price adjusted for work required. When I let my own mechanic look at it he replaced the auto choke unit for £50 and it ran perfectly!
Then took out 5 star AA cover for the Europe trip and one of the wheels nearly fell off after a stud sheared. Cost the AA over £500 in taxis, hire vans, etc. Cost me 20 Euros for some studs.
We named it 'Lucky'
Bought for a price adjusted for work required. When I let my own mechanic look at it he replaced the auto choke unit for £50 and it ran perfectly!
Then took out 5 star AA cover for the Europe trip and one of the wheels nearly fell off after a stud sheared. Cost the AA over £500 in taxis, hire vans, etc. Cost me 20 Euros for some studs.
We named it 'Lucky'
r1ch said:
I normally avoid bargains under the assumption that if it sounds too good to be true, it normally is. I'll never get a bargain with my paranoia
If you buy a car with something wrong with it, at least you know something is wrong and pay a fair price. It's much easier to get burnt buying a car where you think everything works...My best? An immaculate e28 528i for £27. Needed a new fuel pump (£70) and a wash then ran perfectly for a year until I sold it for £750.
Looking at values now, I wish I'd kept it! It was a lovely car.
Mk2 Golf GTI 8v, 130k miles with FSH. It was a mechanically perfect 3-door, and was unmarked inside and out. Came with a suspension refresh, 12 mths MoT and Eagle F1 tyres on P-slot alloys.
£250! (although it was a semi mates-rates deal, it was on AT for £500)
Ran it for another 46k miles, and virtually nothing went wrong with it. Quite a few trackdays as well.
£250! (although it was a semi mates-rates deal, it was on AT for £500)
Ran it for another 46k miles, and virtually nothing went wrong with it. Quite a few trackdays as well.
Edited by speedtwelve on Saturday 22 January 14:26
The first car I ever bought was also the most profitable. I made 400% profit on it in a year.
Its was 1969, and I bought a 1956 105E Ford for two quid. Needles to say it had every possible thing wrong with it,,rust, no brakes, bald tires, leaking radiator. Used to drop an egg into in now and then to keep the rad from leaking. We had a six inch nail for scraping messages and phones numbers on the roof. As a teenager it was all I could afford at the time.
I sold it at the end of the year for a tenner....might have been the biggest percentage return in any investment i have ever made.
Its was 1969, and I bought a 1956 105E Ford for two quid. Needles to say it had every possible thing wrong with it,,rust, no brakes, bald tires, leaking radiator. Used to drop an egg into in now and then to keep the rad from leaking. We had a six inch nail for scraping messages and phones numbers on the roof. As a teenager it was all I could afford at the time.
I sold it at the end of the year for a tenner....might have been the biggest percentage return in any investment i have ever made.
Sometime ago.
Friends father was moaning about his car in the garage which was not running. (He had another car)
He said I've overhauled the fuel pump, if you can get it running it's yours.
Ten minutes later I had a car.
I did of course offer it back to him as I had originally just gone round there to help him.
(yes, he fooked up the fuel pump overhaul)
Friends father was moaning about his car in the garage which was not running. (He had another car)
He said I've overhauled the fuel pump, if you can get it running it's yours.
Ten minutes later I had a car.
I did of course offer it back to him as I had originally just gone round there to help him.
(yes, he fooked up the fuel pump overhaul
)
Three come to mind.
My GT junior was a free barn find. Not sure it qualifies as I've probably lost 7K in knuckles alone!
Picked up a Skoda Favorit Estate for my sister (we don't get one) for free. I was told it was dead, needed a list of bits for an mot as long as a long thing and hadn't started for two years. Needed a battery, fresh fuel and an Italian tune up. Ran for 5 years without fault nor service till written off when parked.
In younger days I picked up a XJC that needed an engine rebuild for £250. It actually needed two spark plugs, nothing more. Ran it for a summer till the fuel bills crippled me and sold it for £2,500. Seeing what they go for now I might have been a bit hasty.
Oh I also got 50% off a brand new 2000 Seat Toledo, which was nice. That is still in the family, can you guess where?
On the other side I've also bought some right old s
t that has worked the other way.
My GT junior was a free barn find. Not sure it qualifies as I've probably lost 7K in knuckles alone!
Picked up a Skoda Favorit Estate for my sister (we don't get one
) for free. I was told it was dead, needed a list of bits for an mot as long as a long thing and hadn't started for two years. Needed a battery, fresh fuel and an Italian tune up. Ran for 5 years without fault nor service till written off when parked. In younger days I picked up a XJC that needed an engine rebuild for £250. It actually needed two spark plugs, nothing more. Ran it for a summer till the fuel bills crippled me and sold it for £2,500. Seeing what they go for now I might have been a bit hasty.
Oh I also got 50% off a brand new 2000 Seat Toledo, which was nice. That is still in the family, can you guess where?
On the other side I've also bought some right old s
t that has worked the other way. Gassing Station | General Gassing | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff