bangernomics forum

anewman

scotsman4th wrote: »

I'd added "or Focus" to my post but deleted it again to keep the "focus" on the skoda lol.
I feel a thread comin on. (Focus or Skoda)

Lol, the Focus is almost definitely the better car than a Fabia or Octavia, if nothing else in terms of ride quality/handling.

A Focus or Fabia hasn't quite got to what I would consider Banger status yet though. At the absolute bottom/banger end of the market though (£600 or less) cars like the Felicia can represent great value for money - and hopefully you benefit in terms of price when people reject them just because of the Skoda badge.

There's some great cars out there for under £1k, even including brands such as BMW and Mercedes. It's a shame people focus (:rotfl:) too much on mileage and age, or worse get credit to buy a car costing a £few k when they could get a car without credit. Just need to get out there and look at them, there's a few needles in those haystacks of junk. Take for example the car pictured above. Looks like a minter to me.

Here's a Bangernomics forum, not very active unfortunately though http://cars.uk.msn.com/forum/board.aspx?BoardID=1272&board=00000071-04f8-0000-0000-000000000000&vv=800

Keith

ilikethesimpsons wrote: »

that is not a banger

The Xsara VTS is ultra cheap due to it's high insurance and it's love of fuel if you have a heavy right foot.

It's quite common for them to be bought with mot to be broken for parts as 205 owners want the engine, steering rack and brakes which would pay back £600ish of the purchase price. Some early models go for £400ish on ebay!

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to me bangernomics meens some think like the astra we use a.t.m., s, reg, 1.6 16v, came with 13 months mot and 5 months tax, for 300 quid

anewman

Keith wrote: »

It's quite common for them to be bought with mot to be broken for parts as 205 owners want the engine, steering rack and brakes

Ha I bet that's fun to drive

motorguy

Keith wrote: »

Nice car, good price, but all I can think of is the word donor :rotfl:

The engines are much better fitted in a 205

Its a fantastic little car in its own right. Goes like stink and handles great.

Its reassuring though that it will probably never drop below £500 due to the low mileage engine and FSH.

nobby24

pgilc1 wrote: »

Yes, well pleased with it.

Its a VTS with 61K and a full history.

Quick piccie...

Just needs another two doors!

Farzackerly

There's a real Bangernomics forum. I'm not sure if it's the original that appeared years ago.
http://bangernomics.editboard.com/what-is-bangernomics-f1/

Keith

anewman wrote: »

Ha I bet that's fun to drive

Oh yes! A quick car for very little money, I've just built a 205 GTi6 for £1200 including buying the 205!

misterspivvy

Hello all this is my first post here.
I'm a firm believer in "bangernomics", if a year's motoring costs me any more than £300 there's something wrong! (I'm obviously not including wear and tear items,fuel or road tax here)
What works for me is to find something deeply unfashionable, that way you get a good one for pennies.
Ford sierra 2.3 diesel- one owner who took it to spain for 20 years before reimporting it. I paid £200, ran it for 2 years with nothing but servicing, then sold it- for £200.
Volvo 740 td- paid £350, ran it for 2 years with nothing but servicing. it bit the dust eventually when rear hub bearing collapsed.
My cars are just tools to get back and forth to work, so it doesnt matter a jot what it is as long as it goes.
Currently gone upmarket with a '97 golf diesel- all of £400. it needs to last me at least 2 years.

JoolzS

"Bangernomics" - that's a word I've never come across before but I love it. It's a word that fits my (and most of my DH's) car buying history perfectly. We rarely pay more than £500 for a car and on the one occasion we really splashed out and paid £750 we ended up with a car that cut out every time it stopped, which made traffic lights really fun! We sold that one on - the new buyer was a work colleague of my DH's and knew all about its problems - and the engine blew out a couple of weeks later.

Our current car is a Fiat Punto that we paid £300 for a couple of years ago. I needed a new car in a hurry because my previous car was hit by a drunk driver whilst it was parked outside my house! I really didn't want to go looking at cars and my DH happened to cycle past this one, with a "for sale" sign in the window, on his way to work. He bought it without telling me - and it's been great. I have a feeling that for a couple of years Fiat built cars out of the same metal that drink cans are made from judging by the number of dents in the bodywork, but it is lovely to drive and it sailed through the last MOT with flying colours. I will never, ever understand why people spend thousands of pounds on a car unless they genuinely have that much spare money. I am grateful to those people though, because without them I'd never get my bangers

I used to work for a car dealership (in an admin capacity, not sales) and one of my jobs was driving to the local DVLA office to tax the new cars for the first time. I always found it quite bizarre that my job was reducing the value of each new car by at least a couple of thousand pounds. I found it more bizarre that people were paying that money and usually on finance for four years or so.

Julie