Your Bangernomics successes

GunJack

ShandyAndy wrote: »

Paid £1450 for my Meriva 5 and half years ago, just sold for £375, bought a Hyundai I20 2012 nearly 2 years ago for £1500, should be a few years left in that, just replaced Meriva with 2012 Kia Ceed £1800, I love Bangernomics!!

Whoah!!!! They're all way too expensive for Bangernomics..... think you need to revise your budgets down somewhat, by 40-50%

mr_harris

Thanks Gunjack for your reply , where do you find the best car banger bargains Ebay? ,

GunJack

mr_harris wrote: »

Thanks Gunjack for your reply , where do you find the best car banger bargains Ebay? ,

Usual places - autotrader, local buy & sell on faceslap, gumtree, for sale sign in car windows, etc....never bought through ebay personally but many have (I've just never really needed to tbh, but would not discount it)...and often overlooked are family & friends when shifting their old motors.

rev_henry

GunJack wrote: »

Usual places - autotrader, local buy & sell on faceslap, gumtree, for sale sign in car windows, etc....never bought through ebay personally but many have (I've just never really needed to tbh, but would not discount it)...and often overlooked are family & friends when shifting their old motors.

Ohh now that can be a dangerous game. Friendships can easily be ruined over something like this.

mr_harris

GunJack wrote: »

Usual places - autotrader, local buy & sell on faceslap, gumtree, for sale sign in car windows, etc....never bought through ebay personally but many have (I've just never really needed to tbh, but would not discount it)...and often overlooked are family & friends when shifting their old motors.

Faceslap lol, where did you get your Fusion from?

Thanks Again GJ

GunJack

rev_henry wrote: »

Ohh now that can be a dangerous game. Friendships can easily be ruined over something like this.

Yes, if done insensitively... however..

Someone over on the Bangernomics thread bought their childminder's car off them for the same or possibly a bit more than they had been offered in px against their new car. The recent history was known, car had been well looked after..the childminder may have got another bit off their new car for having no px,or at least no worse.

win-win situation

GunJack

mr_harris wrote: »

Faceslap lol, where did you get your Fusion from?

Thanks Again GJ

I got my Fusion from the for sale sign in it's window as I drove past it to work one morning...thought I'd missed out as when I phoned someone was due to come view it. Later that day, the seller called me as the prospective buyer hadn't shown, so I went and viewed

I believe he'd also put it locally on faceslap, indeed, my last-but-one car I found on FS..

mr_harris

Still looking for another car lots of rubbish about as normal.

GunJack

mr_harris wrote: »

Still looking for another car lots of rubbish about as normal.

Yup, finding the gems means rooting through much dross

mr_harris

Funny some peoples car ads "A Small Repair" lol £400 worth of welding or a "Small Dent" the bumper nearly hanging off :rotfl: talk about coming it !