Your Bangernomics successes

rev_henry

Had my wheel bearing done last week too. Hyundai barge is back to being deliciously silent around town. Unless I am feeling especially childish and kickdown from 0-30.

reddwarf2002

Deleted_User wrote: »

I've had the wheel bearing, engine mount, and rear brakes MOT failures sorted on the Megane. Car runs sweet as a nut now, no more droning noise from the bearing, and the gear stick no longer wobbles from the engine mount.

Re-test booked for 4pm today. Fingers crossed it passes now.

EDIT: Passed

In the interest of Bangernomics, how much did that set you back?

[Deleted User]

reddwarf2002 wrote: »

In the interest of Bangernomics, how much did that set you back?

£150 which included filling the CV joint (which was an advisory on the fail sheet) so that it no longer allows the ingress of dirt. The advisory on the pass certificate now reflects this.

mcjordi

Deleted_User wrote: »

£150 which included filling the CV joint (which was an advisory on the fail sheet) so that it no longer allows the ingress of dirt. The advisory on the pass certificate now reflects this.

thats not bad mines due in july.. fingers crossed its cheap again :rotfl:

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mcjordi wrote: »

thats not bad mines due in july.. fingers crossed its cheap again :rotfl:

It's like driving a new car now. Didn't realise it was because of the engine mount that was making the gear stick move and wobble when you pressed and depressed the clutch. Research on a Renault forum lead me to believe it was a gear linkage.

Looking forward to another bargain year of motoring now with the megane.

mcjordi

Deleted_User wrote: »

It's like driving a new car now. Didn't realise it was because of the engine mount that was making the gear stick move and wobble when you pressed and depressed the clutch. Research on a Renault forum lead me to believe it was a gear linkage.

Looking forward to another bargain year of motoring now with the megane.

my gearstick still does that lol

even though ive replaced the mount :rotfl:

xHannahx

We've a 2003 seat Toledo 1.8 which cost us £800 last August. So far has run faultlessly since we bought it. It has today clicked on to 102000 miles and has clearly been well looked after and has a big pile of invoices including the original sales invoice when it was new. It's been serviced exactly to manufacturer recommendation by a main dealer until we got it. We have had it serviced this week by a local garage at less than half what the last main dealer service cost.

mcjordi

mines just ticked over to 103k done circa 10k in 18 months
owes me nothing now.. made plenty out of it.. tip runs etc

mot looming haha.. only done 6k since last one so shouldnt need anything major.. (depends on emissions again as cat is borked, if it really needs one a cat is £60) sp far this car has cost me less than a monthly payment on my sister focus for 18 months of use)

xHannahx

mcjordi wrote: »

mines just ticked over to 103k done circa 10k in 18 months
owes me nothing now.. made plenty out of it.. tip runs etc

mot looming haha.. only done 6k since last one so shouldnt need anything major.. (depends on emissions again as cat is borked, if it really needs one a cat is £60) sp far this car has cost me less than a monthly payment on my sister focus for 18 months of use)

Ours is the same, mot July. In 9 months it's cost us £800 to buy, and £135 for a major service. We were paying about £250-300 for the previous car on finance (we voluntary surrendered it back to the HPI company as it seemed a waste of money)

mcjordi

including buying mine and doing bits and bats to it ( new fan belt and tensioner sorting mot fails out etc ) it owed me £290 but i did all the work myself
ive made a lot more than that using the car for the tip runs for people who wont get their new car dirty.. soft sods lol. whack a tarp down and hoover it out.. ha