Do PHers still practice bangernomics?
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Not currently practicing, but if I even 'need' a car in the future I will be back to sub £1k. I only choose to pay more on a car if it's something I've specifically fancied (and have the cash available).
Why lease a bland new runaround when you can buy one outright for several orders of magnitude less?
Why lease a bland new runaround when you can buy one outright for several orders of magnitude less?
Still running a 2006 tdci Fiesta I originally bought for my missus some 8 years ago. Was ex fleet hi miles so only paid £3k all that time ago.
5 years ago i sold my Lotus Europa S, Vito van and motorbikes to feed a property project. Costs got out of hand so eventually my R32 also needed to be cashed in too. Missus got a car through her work, so after her running it 5yrs the Fiesta became my only transport.
Property project finished more than 2 years ago and I'm still running the damn thing even though I can afford much better. £30 tax, £150 insurance, 60mpg and a refusal to fail an MOT or throw any big bills is making it hard to be rid of. I'm getting a buzz out of almost free motoring and not stressing about where I park, who I lend it to or if it breaks. Unintentional bangernomics!
It's probably worth about £700 now but might even get more than the £3k I paid 8 years ago back if I chop it in for new on a scrappage scheme! Not so keen about going back to the worry and costs of something new or high value but missing my toys.
5 years ago i sold my Lotus Europa S, Vito van and motorbikes to feed a property project. Costs got out of hand so eventually my R32 also needed to be cashed in too. Missus got a car through her work, so after her running it 5yrs the Fiesta became my only transport.
Property project finished more than 2 years ago and I'm still running the damn thing even though I can afford much better. £30 tax, £150 insurance, 60mpg and a refusal to fail an MOT or throw any big bills is making it hard to be rid of. I'm getting a buzz out of almost free motoring and not stressing about where I park, who I lend it to or if it breaks. Unintentional bangernomics!
It's probably worth about £700 now but might even get more than the £3k I paid 8 years ago back if I chop it in for new on a scrappage scheme! Not so keen about going back to the worry and costs of something new or high value but missing my toys.
98elise said:
What's the entry price for Bangernomics?
I recently bought an 07 Saab 9-3 with 32k on the clock for £1500. It looks and feels half its age. Its a 2ltr Turbo with leather seats, cruise control, parking sensors etc. Everything works and it has no rattles or squeaks.
Loving it so far
I think it's more a mentality, rather than a price thing.I recently bought an 07 Saab 9-3 with 32k on the clock for £1500. It looks and feels half its age. Its a 2ltr Turbo with leather seats, cruise control, parking sensors etc. Everything works and it has no rattles or squeaks.
Loving it so far
Buy something cheap, service it minimally if at all, and dispose of it when it breaks.
If you start looking after the thing, replacing bits etc, you're into the realm of Shedding, which is also a happy place, just a bit different.
I have been doing this the last few years.
1.4 civic absolutely immaculate 140k took it to 156k ran it till I got bored payed £280 and sold for £350 no costs
2.5 v6 Mondeo estate horrid thing payed £250 sold £290 no costs
Now running a £300 yaris £35 for service bits.
That's my last 2 half years of motoring for less than shed money.
1.4 civic absolutely immaculate 140k took it to 156k ran it till I got bored payed £280 and sold for £350 no costs
2.5 v6 Mondeo estate horrid thing payed £250 sold £290 no costs
Now running a £300 yaris £35 for service bits.
That's my last 2 half years of motoring for less than shed money.
rossub said:
No, because he’s not doing it to deliberately mislead people into thinking that’s the real reg
Convinced me for a moment. I didn't bother checking on the webternet as I've not got enough life left for all that malarkey and the reflections of what look like trees on the plate seemed real enough.Still, never mind. A lovely old BM anyhow. Oi Bangle - yes you Bangle. Come here. No, closer, closer much closer. There.
It's all relative I suppose, but I have had a sub-£3k car continuously for 15 years. I tend to buy quality cars around the £3k mark, and drive them until something terminal happens, or I fancy a change. Current shed is a '53 Audi Allroad TDi...Paid £3,100 4 years ago, needed a suspension pump (£250) and just routine maintenance. Not once let me down, everything works, Air Con ice cold, don't care where I park it, etc. If I didn't need to tow big stuff so often it would be my only daily.
Odd really, as I've gone from wanting the newest, shiniest car I can to wanting the oldest that works! Maybe it's an age thing! :-)
Odd really, as I've gone from wanting the newest, shiniest car I can to wanting the oldest that works! Maybe it's an age thing! :-)
Barchettaman said:
98elise said:
What's the entry price for Bangernomics?
I recently bought an 07 Saab 9-3 with 32k on the clock for £1500. It looks and feels half its age. Its a 2ltr Turbo with leather seats, cruise control, parking sensors etc. Everything works and it has no rattles or squeaks.
Loving it so far
I think it's more a mentality, rather than a price thing.I recently bought an 07 Saab 9-3 with 32k on the clock for £1500. It looks and feels half its age. Its a 2ltr Turbo with leather seats, cruise control, parking sensors etc. Everything works and it has no rattles or squeaks.
Loving it so far
Buy something cheap, service it minimally if at all, and dispose of it when it breaks.
If you start looking after the thing, replacing bits etc, you're into the realm of Shedding, which is also a happy place, just a bit different.
The Saab is the current workhorse to replace the Merc. The low mileage should mean it will go for a fair while with just consumables.
Love Bangernomics!
Bought my NB MX5 for £1300 about 5 years back, picked up a Subaru Legacy Spec B for £2900 last January.
Slowly picking through the “skag list” is less annoying than having a lease bill every month!
I think I just love the idea of enjoying the value for money, imagining someone paying full whack for what I picked up for 10% of that value.
Bought my NB MX5 for £1300 about 5 years back, picked up a Subaru Legacy Spec B for £2900 last January.
Slowly picking through the “skag list” is less annoying than having a lease bill every month!
I think I just love the idea of enjoying the value for money, imagining someone paying full whack for what I picked up for 10% of that value.
RoverP6B said:
Remember Clarkson being forced to eat an omelette containing his own hair when that generation Astra arrived looking exactly like the concept drawings he'd dismissed in such a cavalier manner (pun intended)...
Yep! And on Grand Tour just this week he made a joke about how they look crap I fancied one when they came out because I thought they looked modern and futuristic and much better than the Focus and Golf. Eventually I bought one for banger money - they’re fairy tough and parts are cheap so they are perfect for it. I wouldn’t accept 30mpg if it was a diesel, but I think it’s fair enough for a 2.0 petrol turbo that doesn’t get driven for fuel economy
Edited by Jimmy Recard on Tuesday 23 January 13:25
Edited by Jimmy Recard on Tuesday 23 January 13:26
Pothole said:
rossub said:
This happens every time he posts that picture. The other numbers on the reg have been blanked out on photoshop or whatever.
Actually deserves ridicule, not props, then?
Thanks for the kind words though. I bought it as an £800 MOT failure and got it all sorted. I'm in it in total for under £1500. 328ci manual. I've only done it after a paranoid spell of when a car of mine was cloned. I know plenty of people see the reg on the road every day, but I do it for my peace of mind really.If you'd like to, I accept the ridicule. I am generally quite ridiculous.
Edited by JakeT on Tuesday 23 January 14:32
Barchettaman said:
I think it's more a mentality, rather than a price thing.
Buy something cheap, service it minimally if at all, and dispose of it when it breaks.
If you start looking after the thing, replacing bits etc, you're into the realm of Shedding, which is also a happy place, just a bit different.
I suspect this is what I've landed myself in. After years of looking after my cars and keeping them gleaming, I bought a £2k estate which I'm not bothered about where it gets parked, how dirty it it, what I throw in the back etc.. Buy something cheap, service it minimally if at all, and dispose of it when it breaks.
If you start looking after the thing, replacing bits etc, you're into the realm of Shedding, which is also a happy place, just a bit different.
I keep the nice cars in the garage, now retired as dailies and tinker/fettle/polish them when I feel like it, otherwise the estate does the hard graft and majority of mundane motorway mileage.
However since buying it, I've been on a mission to sort the rattles, squeaks, faded badges as so on, although I'm trying to be strict with myself!
Only paid £550 for my ST170, other than the dire fuel economy which was a £15 sensor and some time set aside to sort it, had no issues. For £550 I don't count a blown foglight bulb, or a dead rear wiper motor as issues. Although as I'm keeping it a good few years, it will all be sorted out. Just getting ready to start buying dirt cheap cars to clean up and sell again, starting where I did last time with the Ford KA. Great cars for the money, unless you take the rear bumpers off to reveal Forditus. Always like the idea of a 405 Diesel as a banger, probably the cheapest car there is to run, except maybe the 106 1.5d
sim72 said:
2005 Mk5 Golf TDI, bought a year ago for £750-odd which included a new cambelt - it was cheap as it had 202K on the clock. It now has 219K. It's cost a set of tyres, a set of rear pads and an oil change so far, so it pretty much owes me nothing already. Just coming up for its first MOT, if it passes that cheaply (don't see why it shouldn't) I'll keep it for another year. Completely reliable (so far), 50-55mpg, decent enough to drive.
Yay. £57 plus the MOT fee, and no advisories. Keep going, old shed!
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