What car? Bangernomics challenge!
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My trusty Golf is wounded, the MOT man wants £690 to fix it. I'm going to have a look at how much I can take off that, but it's all failure items so I'm not hoping for much!
In the meantime, what can I get for a £500 budget? I would like something big as the Golf is an estate (small and interesting considered), and that won't need too much doing in the coming year. The more MOT the better, tax not an issue as I would have to tax the Golf anyway. Fuel economy isn't a big worry, but I'd like to stay above 30mpg.
Somewhere near Harrogate would be good too, the price of travel to get there and back counts at that budget!
In the meantime, what can I get for a £500 budget? I would like something big as the Golf is an estate (small and interesting considered), and that won't need too much doing in the coming year. The more MOT the better, tax not an issue as I would have to tax the Golf anyway. Fuel economy isn't a big worry, but I'd like to stay above 30mpg.
Somewhere near Harrogate would be good too, the price of travel to get there and back counts at that budget!
Both the Cougar and C class are tempting, the cream 190E might be a touch too far though! I'l give another vote for a pug 406 estate
I was speaking to a taxi driver the other week and he said it is the best taxi car you can pick up for the money, plus they don't conform to the usual french standards of falling apart.
I also saw a bunch of very cheap volvo estates of various lineage on autotrader. I've driven my uncles old volvo and they are not a bad shout.
I was speaking to a taxi driver the other week and he said it is the best taxi car you can pick up for the money, plus they don't conform to the usual french standards of falling apart.
I also saw a bunch of very cheap volvo estates of various lineage on autotrader. I've driven my uncles old volvo and they are not a bad shout.
The Crack Fox said:
That's a superb shed sir!ETA:
Alex@POD said:
the cream 190E might be a touch too far though! 
MTFU... 
Edited by samdale on Wednesday 29th February 19:51
With £26 left over to pay for a National Express ticket!:
http://www.autotrader.co.UK/classified/advert/2012...
http://www.autotrader.co.UK/classified/advert/2012...
Edited by Yiliterate on Wednesday 29th February 20:17
Question surely has to be
What state is your car in?
What will it need doing to it this year excluding the failure items?
What are the failure items as that may give an indication as to your preventative naintence
If it has a few years tyres left ditto clutch discs and pads and your happy with it ie no issues apart from this fail then frankly you'd be jumping out of te frying pan into the fire could be lucky could buy a money pit.
Plus of course you can sell your car on at whatever point.
If your ready for a change anyway and the cars fixed value is less than the repairs weigh it in for scrap and get a replacement. Waste no more time
What state is your car in?
What will it need doing to it this year excluding the failure items?
What are the failure items as that may give an indication as to your preventative naintence
If it has a few years tyres left ditto clutch discs and pads and your happy with it ie no issues apart from this fail then frankly you'd be jumping out of te frying pan into the fire could be lucky could buy a money pit.
Plus of course you can sell your car on at whatever point.
If your ready for a change anyway and the cars fixed value is less than the repairs weigh it in for scrap and get a replacement. Waste no more time
BorkFactor said:
Could get a fairly decent Volvo 850 for that money if you are lucky 
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2012...Looks pretty clean. Decent MOT too.
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2012...
Not as clean but can't argue with a years MOT for a monkey
BorkFactor said:
Could get a fairly decent Volvo 850 for that money if you are lucky
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2012...Looks pretty clean. Decent MOT too.
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2012...
Not as clean but can't argue with a years MOT for a monkey
Welshbeef said:
Question surely has to be
What state is your car in?
What will it need doing to it this year excluding the failure items?
What are the failure items as that may give an indication as to your preventative naintence
If it has a few years tyres left ditto clutch discs and pads and your happy with it ie no issues apart from this fail then frankly you'd be jumping out of te frying pan into the fire could be lucky could buy a money pit.
Plus of course you can sell your car on at whatever point.
If your ready for a change anyway and the cars fixed value is less than the repairs weigh it in for scrap and get a replacement. Waste no more time
My current car needs new rear brake pipes as they are corroded, a front brake pipe and a track rod end. Also needs welding on the floor, which I can guess will be needed somewhere different again soon... I was going to give it a service at the same time, and ideally it will need a new radiator and a battery.What state is your car in?
What will it need doing to it this year excluding the failure items?
What are the failure items as that may give an indication as to your preventative naintence
If it has a few years tyres left ditto clutch discs and pads and your happy with it ie no issues apart from this fail then frankly you'd be jumping out of te frying pan into the fire could be lucky could buy a money pit.
Plus of course you can sell your car on at whatever point.
If your ready for a change anyway and the cars fixed value is less than the repairs weigh it in for scrap and get a replacement. Waste no more time
Most of the repair cost is due to the brakes, and I'll probably struggle to change those myself as I don't really have anywhere to do it!
The car is probably worth £500, runs well but at 195000 miles it tends to scare people off...
I'll have a better idea of what I need to do at the weekend, I was planning to by a van soon but this is forcing my hand a bit... So I wanted to see if I could be tempted to jump ship...
Also, this model had 74bhp when it was new. I am in desperate need of a sub 15s 0-60
Right given your comments scrap it
You'll probably get £250 for the car as scrap so your budget is actually £650 not £500.
One question how long do you keep cars? Reason I ask it might be a false economy buying one for £500 and scrapping in a year whereas one for £1k will last more than two years and in that time have less attention needed.
You say you were going to service it after the MOT so it's pretty clear this is shoestring motoring. Can I suggest in future you stagger the servicing and MOT so they are six months apart. Reason for that is that when it's serviced those issues would be picked up you could then male the choice to fix them or run the car up to MOT expiry then scrap or sell in that time frame. Either way it gives you time and choices instead of s
t need to find a car ASAP.
You'll probably get £250 for the car as scrap so your budget is actually £650 not £500.
One question how long do you keep cars? Reason I ask it might be a false economy buying one for £500 and scrapping in a year whereas one for £1k will last more than two years and in that time have less attention needed.
You say you were going to service it after the MOT so it's pretty clear this is shoestring motoring. Can I suggest in future you stagger the servicing and MOT so they are six months apart. Reason for that is that when it's serviced those issues would be picked up you could then male the choice to fix them or run the car up to MOT expiry then scrap or sell in that time frame. Either way it gives you time and choices instead of s
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