The most difficult car to buy?
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A cheap one. Maximum £500 (ish).
Both me and my son have just been through it, an eye opening experience. He was after a daily when he sold his MK5 Golf GTi and wanting to save to get his fun car restored. I was after one for the wife as I was going working away for a few months.
Plenty of 'if only' moments.
Plenty of cars that should have been sent to the scrapper.
He ended up with a Lupo SDi (he hates it but it will do over the winter).
We ended up with a K12 Micra, which needed work but was cheap and now is sorted. Bought new battery, new exhaust, boot kept popping open (fixed with a switch/handle from scrap yard) ignition is a bit of an issue on these and this was no different, I wired in a push button to start it (she thinks it is cool).
Just hope my car lasts doing 450 miles a week to Reading and back.
Both me and my son have just been through it, an eye opening experience. He was after a daily when he sold his MK5 Golf GTi and wanting to save to get his fun car restored. I was after one for the wife as I was going working away for a few months.
Plenty of 'if only' moments.
Plenty of cars that should have been sent to the scrapper.
He ended up with a Lupo SDi (he hates it but it will do over the winter).
We ended up with a K12 Micra, which needed work but was cheap and now is sorted. Bought new battery, new exhaust, boot kept popping open (fixed with a switch/handle from scrap yard) ignition is a bit of an issue on these and this was no different, I wired in a push button to start it (she thinks it is cool).
Just hope my car lasts doing 450 miles a week to Reading and back.
I bought a 57 plate 1.25 Fiesta last week for £200. No MOT and absolutely filthy in and out. Totally unloved. Got it up on a friendly locals ramp, and thankfully nothing too scary hiding underneath. I cleaned it within an inch of its life, and have almost fixed everything needed doing for the MOT and given it a full service. Only things left to do now is unlock the radio and replace one corroded brake pipe.
Total cost including the purchase is under £450 (replace buckled wheel, 2 tyres, wheel bearing, outer CV joint, service bits, second hand window winder mechanism, second hand electric mirror), and it has cleaned up well and drives as well as expected for a small car with 150k on it.
There are loads of these cars on FB marketplace. We will keep this one as a run around for local school runs etc.
Total cost including the purchase is under £450 (replace buckled wheel, 2 tyres, wheel bearing, outer CV joint, service bits, second hand window winder mechanism, second hand electric mirror), and it has cleaned up well and drives as well as expected for a small car with 150k on it.
There are loads of these cars on FB marketplace. We will keep this one as a run around for local school runs etc.
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