Looking for a cheap car

vaio

The OP said….

shewhoguards wrote: »

………..a couple of weeks ago after it started making a weird noise. The garage (who I trust, as my uncle trained one of the guys) let me know, when I picked it up, that I could expect the exhaust to go in the next few months as, though they couldn't see anything wrong with it, they thought they could hear an odd noise from it………..

To me it sounds like a loose baffle as there is nothing to see, not worth doing anything about until it gets much worse

LandyAndy

goldspanners wrote: »

you dont need to make excuses for wanting a new car, your current car seems to have only needed normal items that should be expected to be replaced within the life of any car. why you think it could fail its MOT i dont know. an exhaust is all it might need by the sounds of it and this shouldnt cost very much.

CHR15 wrote: »

Sounds like you already own a peach of a car, been totally reliable since you have owned it with only the normal repair items required (tyres, brakes, exhaust).

Couldn't you persevere until your pay rise comes in and have more to spend on a MUCH better car than you could if you threw away £2-3000 now??

I agree with these replies. You seem to have a decent car that is only costing you consumables. Cars don't run for nothing. Stick with 'the devil you know' for bit longer.:cool:

There are few things more moneysaving than a reliable car that is old enough to be costing next to nothing in depreciation.

Whitewillow_2

Why not just wait for the mot, take it to a garage and see what they say? hopefully she will be ok and pleasantly suprise you! When my car (now 8 years old) went for its mot 2 months ago i was bricking it, budgeted about £500 to get her through and it only cost me £75! Amazing!
An odd noise from an exhaust is nothing to worry about usually (unless its the sound of it dragging on the floor! lol) Your exhaust comes in 3 sections, maifold, middlepipe and the back box, any of these can go individually and so doesnt necessarily mean youd have to have the whole thing replaced, often you can just change the one section. This makes it much cheaper than replacing the whole system. Dont really understand however why they didnt tell you what made them think it could be going soon? Even something like going over a speed bump and denting it can cause the exhaust no real harm but effect the noise! hth