Your Bangernomics successes

worried_jim

londonTiger wrote: »

noticed he said that it uses a gallon of fuel every 26miles. That's horrible, old cars were really inefficient.

Not horrible when your fuel is free! Back on the veg! Looks like a brilliant car and the engine just loves natures finest- a very good buy and I am very jealous. My target car is the same next time so I can get back on the home brew as well, I used to have one in the late 90's and no matter how I drove it I always got about 50mpg- lovely car, good choice.

andygb

That is a sweet looking Audi, great shape in those days.
The fantastic thing about bangernomics, it that you can sell a car for pretty much the same as you paid for it (or maybe more if you choose wisely), if you get tired with it or see something else that you fancy.

londonTiger

love the thanks on the thread.

Press below.. cheers.

alastairq

londonTiger wrote: »

noticed he said that it uses a gallon of fuel every 26miles. That's horrible, old cars were really inefficient.

rather than describing old cars as 'inefficient'....they need to be put into perspective.....with the complete motoring environment.


Most 'old cars' were in fact incredibly efficient...and if not, 'like-for-like', then certainly for the task the manufacturer expected [and sold them] to do?

However, the efficiencies had to be compared to the technologies available at the time.

For the past twenty years or so, automotive technology has benefited from the advantageous uses of electronics for control purposes...replacing the skills displayed by experienced engineers and craftsmen.


Add to that the fact that fuel costs in themselves were much lower than today....?

[I suspect the rises in fuel duty reflect as much on how much less fuel a car uses today, as anything else?}

Nothing could be more ''efficient'' than the Model T Ford, for example....an exercise in mechanical simplicity, with sales figures modern car makers have wet dreams about?


Latest fuel consumption average, noted on my 14 year old, 1.3 skoda petrol, is 48.6mpg's.....I need to stop screaming along at 60, overtaking everything in sight...

I'd like a couple of new[er] tyres soon......guess I'll keep me ears to the ground?

worried_jim

Had my first mis hap with the banger this week- 7am and the remote key fob won't unlock the car. I use the key and the alarm starts blaring away, I thought that once I started the engine with the key it would turn the alarm off- wrong! I drove it like I stole it (literally) down the road a bit away from the neighbours and managed to turn it off with the fob.
It's all working fine now with new batteries, but I am sure that I replaced the batteries in February when I purchased the car and can't believe that they have only lasted two months- if that.
Everything else is still good, still only on my second tank of fuel and trying to get everyone else at work to buy a banger, one colleague has £6k to spend on a Golf and I have been trying to get him to just spend a £1k and invest the rest, but he wants something "smart", well if smart costs £5k then.......

Rolandtheroadie

Had a wee problem too, Temperature sensor fault preventing the glow plugs from kicking in on a cold morning.
Unplugged sensor, glowplugs now come on but for around 10 seconds. £8 for new sensor.
Loves the veg, doesnt hunt like the astra/corsa used to do when first started.

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worried_jim wrote: »

one colleague has £6k to spend on a Golf and I have been trying to get him to just spend a £1k and invest the rest, but he wants something "smart", well if smart costs £5k then.......

I'd rather have the £5K sitting in the bank safe in the knowledge that if I need money in the future I have it. Rather than blow it all on a car that will lose value.

worried_jim

On returning from the newsagent this morning I noticed that a huge piece of trim is missing of the car from the roof.



This black plastic strip from the guttering has gone. Did it fall off or has a local pie key helped themselves. Its probably halved the resale value of it now.

getmore4less

scotsman4th wrote: »

MOT'd till January, Taxed end August. 1994 1.9 TDI Avant.
What does it run on? Yep, you guessed it lol.

I am begining to think thats what I should do, something like estate like

Finding the 98 306 a bit small and its starting to cost a bit of money still only upto £250ish a year max so just keep it going.

was going to go for something with toys, high mileage but a lot newer like an octavia ex rep motorway muncher, but an older well maintained might just do the job as no one wants them these days so can be much better value.

alastairq

still getting 48.6 mpg's out of the petrol Felicia...[within a decimal point or two each fill-up....seems to be the MPG's actually more-or-less match the price paid.....!!!!!!!!!!!]


Probably would get a few more out of it if I stopped overtaking stuff...must try to do it at roundabouts instead.