Your Bangernomics successes

robin61

parking_question_chap wrote: »

I am considering swapping my car for something else. Would love an S type for £1000. Though I have to ask, what went wrong with each one to make you get rid?

I would probably spend a bit more than that but I take your point. I'd love to know whether they turned out to be money pits or not.

JP08

I think my best bangernomics success was the Volvo 240 Estate I got back in 2001 for the princely sum of £1k. A quick scan though my extensive spending spreadsheet shows I spent a grand total of £1030 pounds in the 4.75 years I owned her (excluding fuel, insurance and tax). Ie all the repair and maintenance costs, MoTs, tyres, exhausts, servicing, etc.

That's not to say she wasn't without faults.

The interior was well beyond foxed - beared might have been accurate - an early item in that £1030 expenses list is for some seat covers.

The heater blower didn't work in the whole time I owned her - but such was the capacity of the unit that any forward motion provided plenty of heat.

The autobox would drop out of overdrive (don't ask, Aisin Warner box, 3 speed auto, overdrive on 2 and 3). Application of solder to dodgy tracks in the relay circuit board sorted that.

The electronic ignition had been replaced by a points setup. So the timing figures in the book were worse than useless. Set the timing by belting up and down the A1 between two roundabouts until I found a point where she a) didn't get hot and b) didn't pink at speed.


But best of all was the twin choke Weber carb in place of the original. Meant that when you put your foot down several things happened.

1) the autobox would kick down once (out of overdrive) then again from third to second.
2) the second jet on the Weber would dump fuel at a phenomenal rate into the engine.
3) there would be a James Bond style cloud of fumes out the back.
4) the nose would come up in a most un-Volvo like manner, and an even more un-Volvo like acceleration wound take place.

Traded her in for £2k of Mitsubishi Galant Auto Estate. Cost a bit more over my ownership (about £2.4k), but did have her for nearly 7 years.

ard123en

I'm on my first month of ownership of a Hyundai coupe 2.7 v6 picked up for £700 everything works
Knew when I bought it needed a new tyre got one (part worn with 7mm on it ) plan to give it a good service inc front discs and pads as they feel like a record these are all things I knew about then I brought it though.

Love driving it would have no think nothing to doing a long journey in it except its a bit thirsty at 30ish to the gallon

worried_jim

ard123en wrote: »

I'm on my first month of ownership of a Hyundai coupe 2.7 v6 picked up for £700 everything works
Knew when I bought it needed a new tyre got one (part worn with 7mm on it ) plan to give it a good service inc front discs and pads as they feel like a record these are all things I knew about then I brought it though.

Love driving it would have no think nothing to doing a long journey in it except its a bit thirsty at 30ish to the gallon

30ish to the gallon? Pah! 18/19 for my Saab around town. Merc is a bit better @21. Welcome to Bangernomics- any pics of your 2.7, it sounds tasty?

I think I heard that the brake disks are a bit of a job on the 2.7- let us know how you got on.

ard123en

worried_jim wrote: »

30ish to the gallon? Pah! 18/19 for my Saab around town. Merc is a bit better @21. Welcome to Bangernomics- any pics of your 2.7, it sounds tasty?

I think I heard that the brake disks are a bit of a job on the 2.7- let us know how you got on.

Here's a pic.
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Had a spare couple of hours today did one side was no different to any other car would have done both sides of the bolts had come out easily did not need the car today will finish tomorrow

worried_jim

Amazing what you can be driving for less than £1k if you think outside the box. Looks really good in silver. I sat in one brand new about 14 years ago and the salesman came running over- I nearly said yes just from the smell of the leather alone.

markelock

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Excluding Tax, Servicing, and a rear spring change (which I did myself for £80)

Plenty still to do, paintwork would benefit from an overhaul, the alarm has a mind of its own, but it drives like a dream. I don't measure the mpg, probably best not to...

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ard123en

Finished the breaks on a coupe today second side took less than an hour.

Noticed a clunk an intermittent clunk on kick when cold down going to check the transmission fluid at the weekend

ard123en

The Lexus looks good do all the toys work ?

markelock

ard123en wrote: »

The Lexus looks good do all the toys work ?

Hi

Pretty much yes.

The light is out on the radio cassette, but a fix is beyond my abilities.

Heated seats (front and rear) both work, which is nice. all electrics work.

its a real thing of engineering beauty.