Your Bangernomics successes

GunJack

Joe_Horner wrote: »

It's for my OH to replace her Mondeo and most of the use is a weekly shopping trip of about 45 miles plus a couple of 30 mile round trips to see her mum each week, all on cou try A roads and dual carriageway. So fuel isn't a big factor really and the rest of the costs pretty much match the Mondy.

Fair point... we've got an 03-plate diesel mondy, been a good car

Joe_Horner

More good bangernomics news today

The 525TD just passed its MOT with advisories for rear tyres and rear pads getting low (both already known about, not due quite yet).

Have been running it for about 5 years now, cost nothing (well, cost a replacement car for the owner 2 years after we got it but that's a long story), has needed 2 sets of tyres, a wheel bearing, an aux belt with tensioner, 2 front shocks, an exhaust and a pair of rear subframe bushes over the past 40k miles (it's now on 104k total on a "L" plate!)

Not bad for an overall 36mpg in relative wafty comfort!

Joe_Horner

Dodged a bullet on the Daewoo today.

Did the timing belt as planned, and found the old one with no tension left at all - the tensioner was right over against its stop with no spring pressure at all and there was an easy 10 - 15mm deflection in the "pull" side of the belt!

All good now, so still a bargain

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Joe_Horner wrote: »

Dodged a bullet on the Daewoo today.

Did the timing belt as planned, and found the old one with no tension left at all - the tensioner was right over against its stop with no spring pressure at all and there was an easy 10 - 15mm deflection in the "pull" side of the belt!

All good now, so still a bargain

I wish I could do my own mechanicals on cars, I would of saved thousands over the years.

GunJack

OK, it's now my 2-year anniversary of the £10 Ford Fusion 1.4TDCi

Summary:-

Total cost to buy, put it through 2 MoTs (brake lines, ball joint), ad-hoc rear wheel bearings and a coil spring and 4 part-worn tyres = £595 which should last 'till next MoT in April 2020, so 2 yrs 8 months

Running costs:-

£30p.a. road tax x2 (just done the third year's too) = £90

Insurance - £310 first year, £198 second year, and renewed Apr-ish at £195

Fuel:-

18,000 mles in 2 yrs, overall average is 60.24mpg, and at an average cost of £1.24 per litre of diesel - all fuel & mleage logged on a spreadsheet so I know it's accurate

Overall it's been a cracking little motor and still going strong....wouldn't surprise me if this becomes my longest-serving and overall cheapest banger to-date...well happy with it

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GunJack wrote: »

OK, it's now my 2-year anniversary of the £10 Ford Fusion 1.4TDCi

Summary:-

Total cost to buy, put it through 2 MoTs (brake lines, ball joint), ad-hoc rear wheel bearings and a coil spring and 4 part-worn tyres = £595 which should last 'till next MoT in April 2020, so 2 yrs 8 months

Running costs:-

£30p.a. road tax x2 (just done the third year's too) = £90

Insurance - £310 first year, £198 second year, and renewed Apr-ish at £195

Fuel:-

18,000 mles in 2 yrs, overall average is 60.24mpg, and at an average cost of £1.24 per litre of diesel - all fuel & mleage logged on a spreadsheet so I know it's accurate

Overall it's been a cracking little motor and still going strong....wouldn't surprise me if this becomes my longest-serving and overall cheapest banger to-date...well happy with it

Cost per mile?

andygb

Joe_Horner wrote: »

More good bangernomics news today

The 525TD just passed its MOT with advisories for rear tyres and rear pads getting low (both already known about, not due quite yet).

Have been running it for about 5 years now, cost nothing (well, cost a replacement car for the owner 2 years after we got it but that's a long story), has needed 2 sets of tyres, a wheel bearing, an aux belt with tensioner, 2 front shocks, an exhaust and a pair of rear subframe bushes over the past 40k miles (it's now on 104k total on a "L" plate!)

Not bad for an overall 36mpg in relative wafty comfort!

That looks like an E34 Joe. We had one (a 520i) in the same colour and took it for a few long trips across Europe. It was very solid and very smooth running, and I ended up selling it to a mate when it had 160K on the clock.

Norman_Castle

fatbelly wrote: »

It's one of those 'not well liked but nothing wrong with it' cars.

Some countries got a 4x4 version with roof rails and better looks. These could have sold well in the uk even as 2wd.

Even this which could be done as a wrap is an improvement.
https://www.motor1.com/photo/132788/ford-fusion-suv-spy-photo-132788/


First generation ecosport from Brazil.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_EcoSport

GunJack

Deleted_User wrote: »

Cost per mile?

currently inc. tax & ins, around 10.x p per mile... need to fiddle with my formula to be more accurate than that..

GunJack

GunJack wrote: »

currently inc. tax & ins, around 10.x p per mile... need to fiddle with my formula to be more accurate than that..

OK, so just added ALL costs (purchase, repairs, tax, insurance and fuel, there's no depreciation involved) for 2 years, and it comes in at 16p per mile.... I'm happy with that