Run a car to end of its life
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Depends how you determine 'End of life'
You could pick up a new car and cash it and destroy it within 5 minutes.
You could pick up a new 530d as your company car and it spectacularly disintegrates in year three of the lease rendering it worthless. (This happened. Was hilarious. Except I was in Scotland and live in Sussex)
You could pick up a new car and cash it and destroy it within 5 minutes.
You could pick up a new 530d as your company car and it spectacularly disintegrates in year three of the lease rendering it worthless. (This happened. Was hilarious. Except I was in Scotland and live in Sussex)
interesting thread....
For various reasons we will be keeping the Allroad and the CRV for the foreseeable. The Audi has not put a foot wrong in the last 2.5 years of ownership (and approaching 30,000 miles). It’ll spit a big bill at me, but the 3.0 litre lump is good for 250,000 miles and with 125,000 in the clock i’m just about half way. The Honda was bought blind from the auctions - the aircon doesn’t work, but it’s not cost a penny in 12 months of ownership. we will probably put some money into the suspension on the CRV as it’s a bit crashy O/S/F, but they are pretty indestructible. The audi is 15 years old, the CRV 16
The oldest car is the one currently under a blanket in the garage....
For various reasons we will be keeping the Allroad and the CRV for the foreseeable. The Audi has not put a foot wrong in the last 2.5 years of ownership (and approaching 30,000 miles). It’ll spit a big bill at me, but the 3.0 litre lump is good for 250,000 miles and with 125,000 in the clock i’m just about half way. The Honda was bought blind from the auctions - the aircon doesn’t work, but it’s not cost a penny in 12 months of ownership. we will probably put some money into the suspension on the CRV as it’s a bit crashy O/S/F, but they are pretty indestructible. The audi is 15 years old, the CRV 16
The oldest car is the one currently under a blanket in the garage....
TwigtheWonderkid said:
Neighbour of mine has a 1995 Micra K11 that he bought new, to run until the end of it's life. He's 83 now, car has done nearly 400K miles and it still going strong. He says the car has decided to run him to the end of his life!!
In a sad way i'd love to know what that car has cost him per mile. For a car bought brand new there can't be many ever that have worked out cheaper!My parents generally do this, but don’t really look after cars so they don’t last that long.
Mums fiesta - 2004 bought at 1 year old/6k miles - scrapped in 2017 at 82k miles, now running a Hyundai to the same fate (this was bought at 7 years old/70k miles though)
Dads 2008 BMW 318d - bought at 3 years old/14k miles, now at 140k miles and 12 years old
All cars are run as bangers but are serviced. Never cleaned, no preventative maintenance, used to cart muddy dogs - they’re both minging.
Mums fiesta - 2004 bought at 1 year old/6k miles - scrapped in 2017 at 82k miles, now running a Hyundai to the same fate (this was bought at 7 years old/70k miles though)
Dads 2008 BMW 318d - bought at 3 years old/14k miles, now at 140k miles and 12 years old
All cars are run as bangers but are serviced. Never cleaned, no preventative maintenance, used to cart muddy dogs - they’re both minging.
My parents did this regularly. Their first car that I remember was a Mini Clubman estate that they bought new. Cars didn’t last long in those days, it was “end of life” after about 15 years and 120K miles. The engine was knackered, and the underfloor was more rust than metal. They packed it in when it threw a rod in the M4.
Next car was an Open Kadett 1.3 estate. That ran until terminal rot got it - again about 15 years. I welded up the sills once, but it was absolutely buggered. They replaced that with a Vectra Estate that my mum ran for 22 years until she stacked into a tree on her 90th birthday. She now drives a 2018 Yaris, which will probably do her to end of life.
My daily is a 20 year old Alfa 156 diesel that has done 170k. By most people’s standards, it is probably end of life.
Next car was an Open Kadett 1.3 estate. That ran until terminal rot got it - again about 15 years. I welded up the sills once, but it was absolutely buggered. They replaced that with a Vectra Estate that my mum ran for 22 years until she stacked into a tree on her 90th birthday. She now drives a 2018 Yaris, which will probably do her to end of life.
My daily is a 20 year old Alfa 156 diesel that has done 170k. By most people’s standards, it is probably end of life.
How do you define end of life for a car?
Only cars we had in our family that we scrapped were both Ford, escort and fiesta mk3. Both suffered severe rust and would have needed so much work the garage pretty much refused to do the work. Mechanically they were ok.
My dad had a few 2.0 sierras DOHC version. Took 2 of them to 300k and 1 to 250k. All of them sold on. One had an oil leak for ages but other than that they were still going strong.
I would say if people were willing to replace suspension, clutches etc engine block itself would go to 300-500k with good maintenance on most manufacturers nowadays.
Only cars we had in our family that we scrapped were both Ford, escort and fiesta mk3. Both suffered severe rust and would have needed so much work the garage pretty much refused to do the work. Mechanically they were ok.
My dad had a few 2.0 sierras DOHC version. Took 2 of them to 300k and 1 to 250k. All of them sold on. One had an oil leak for ages but other than that they were still going strong.
I would say if people were willing to replace suspension, clutches etc engine block itself would go to 300-500k with good maintenance on most manufacturers nowadays.
colin86 said:
Was thinking today does anyone buy a new/nearly new car and run it till the end of its life ?
Most people tend to keep hold of the car, until that visit to the local garage where they get told lots of uneconomical work is coming up in near future, and then they get rid.My uncle used to get company cars through the 90's and 00's, ranging from E46 320d's to Rangers. He'd get them for around 2 years and in that time would absolutely destroy them. He had a brand new MK3 Mondeo for around 6 months and managed to completely grenade the engine. A neighbour of mine had an S reg A6 1.8t estate from 3 years old, he got it dirt cheap as it had close to 100k on it at 3 years old and kept it up until last year when it went to scrap for some brake issue, I would've bought it for myself had I known it was available.
My current daily is a 15 year old Astra diesel with 152k miles on it.
To many, its just a knackered old shed, in reality, its a perfectly good car with plenty of life in it.
It drives really well for what it is, its comfy, economical and actually very reliable. There is zero rust on the shell too. Its laughable good, but is worth nothing in terms of pounds and pence.
Because its worth nothing, I cannot justify getting rid of what is still a totally dependable and solid vehicle. It just makes no sense at all. I plan to take it to 200k and see how its doing, based on how it feels and 152k I'm guessing it'll be just fine.
To many, its just a knackered old shed, in reality, its a perfectly good car with plenty of life in it.
It drives really well for what it is, its comfy, economical and actually very reliable. There is zero rust on the shell too. Its laughable good, but is worth nothing in terms of pounds and pence.
Because its worth nothing, I cannot justify getting rid of what is still a totally dependable and solid vehicle. It just makes no sense at all. I plan to take it to 200k and see how its doing, based on how it feels and 152k I'm guessing it'll be just fine.
My dad has bought a couple of cars new then run them as long as possible and they’ve been taken away about 15 years later by the scrap man. So it does happen.
I bought my first car as an “end of life” vehicle “ (just needed a couple of tyres and a brake calliper to get a ticket on it, was going to be scrapped by the previous owner) ended up keeping it for ten years, sold it for 3 times what I paid for it with mot to an enthusiast :-)
I bought my first car as an “end of life” vehicle “ (just needed a couple of tyres and a brake calliper to get a ticket on it, was going to be scrapped by the previous owner) ended up keeping it for ten years, sold it for 3 times what I paid for it with mot to an enthusiast :-)
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