Your Bangernomics successes

Farzackerly

frankflowers said:

Ibrahim5 said:

I have been looking at second hand cars for a while. The high mileage ones just don't sell even though they are massively reduced. Even though I have had reliable cars over 100,000 I avoid buying them. There must be some good bargains to be had.

High miles cars that have been sitting around unsold are usually cheap for a reason.

I always ask myself, if someone has piled big miles on a car why are they selling it now?  What do they know that i dont?

Theres the odd bargain to be had, but you could look at 20 before you find that one.

It's becoming more generally known which engines are prone to terminal failure and what kind of mileage they'll do before that happens. This is leading to a glut of some models on the used markets, but often the prices don't reflect what puddings they are.

PsiDOC

My latest bangernomics acquisition.
2006 Honda Civic 2.2 i-cdti. 150,000 miles on the clock.
Cost: £700 with 11 months MOT.
Pottered about on it for a weekend fixing the niggly problems like front passenger seat not moving back and forth, rear window not working etc. Also retrofitted cruise control for my weekly 200 mile round trip commute to work (£40 in parts on ebay and 3 extra wires 2 foot long from the column to the tachometer pod).
Aircon does not work due to the magnetic clutch coil being open circuit and at £155 for a new one. I'll open the window.
It's rough around the edges with lots of scuffs and scrapes, the wheels are rattle canned satin black by the previous owner.

Where it really tops out is the fuel economy. I regularly see 66 mpg on the computer on my commute. From fill up to fill up, and manually calculating it, it actually works out at about 60 mpg in the real world. Taking into account the inbuilt 9% speedo over reading error then that's about right.

I have done 1800 miles since buying it and it's never missed a beat.
For an old workhorse I am very seriously impressed.

tommyedinburgh

Time to get the banger two new front tyres. Picked up two Autogreen Sport Chaser SC2 Tyres for £98 all in fitted. 

A - rating for grip so happy. Should be fine for my 1.8 mile commute, although that will shortly change to 4.2 miles as we are moving. 

Megaross

Current car technically a 1989 mk2 golf gl 1.8 auto, paid £1500 for it and the only things I've really needed to do was brakes, tyres and a general service and tune.

Rust free when I got it. Now 3 years later a skip lorry rear ended it (repairable but pricy) so I'm taking the payout, buying the car back as scrap and selling as a project. Should easily clear £3k (about what I could've sold it for in the current market).

Was tempted to repair myself as it's honestly not too bad (still a perfectly drivable car) but I'm moving house so it's easier to get shot.

Thinking a vw/seat/skoda with a 1.9tdi lump of some kind next, usable classics are great til you get to the fuel pump.

Never actually owned anything more modern or even fuel injected so that'll be a novelty in itself.

[Deleted User]

PsiDOC said:

My latest bangernomics acquisition.
2006 Honda Civic 2.2 i-cdti. 150,000 miles on the clock.
Cost: £700 with 11 months MOT.
Pottered about on it for a weekend fixing the niggly problems like front passenger seat not moving back and forth, rear window not working etc. Also retrofitted cruise control for my weekly 200 mile round trip commute to work (£40 in parts on ebay and 3 extra wires 2 foot long from the column to the tachometer pod).
Aircon does not work due to the magnetic clutch coil being open circuit and at £155 for a new one. I'll open the window.
It's rough around the edges with lots of scuffs and scrapes, the wheels are rattle canned satin black by the previous owner.

Where it really tops out is the fuel economy. I regularly see 66 mpg on the computer on my commute. From fill up to fill up, and manually calculating it, it actually works out at about 60 mpg in the real world. Taking into account the inbuilt 9% speedo over reading error then that's about right.

I have done 1800 miles since buying it and it's never missed a beat.
For an old workhorse I am very seriously impressed.

Bangernomics at it's finest!

CKhalvashi

Always fancied one of those Civics, as I liked the spaceship design of them (although I also liked the Scorpio when my father had one, which most people hated)

That looks like a clean and well looked after car, always a sign to buy on condition rather than age. The 2.2 diesel (which my father has in an Accord currently) should be relatively bulletproof also. There was 1 as a taxi here which has long gone now gone due to emission requirements, but it was comfortable and quiet. Mileage was spaceship as it was largely used as an airport transfer vehicle.

tommyedinburgh

tommyedinburgh said:

Time to get the banger two new front tyres. Picked up two Autogreen Sport Chaser SC2 Tyres for £98 all in fitted. 

A - rating for grip so happy. Should be fine for my 1.8 mile commute, although that will shortly change to 4.2 miles as we are moving. 

First impression of these budget tyres is good. 

Grumpy_chap

So, we have a challenge.

Our 1997 Fiesta, which is absolutely immaculate, owned by my wife since 6 months, less than 60k miles, is not ULEZ-compliant and Mr Khan has announced the London ULEZ will expand to where we live.  There was a consultation ended yesterday, but I'm not optimistic that the final decision has not already been made and this is coming to hit us next summer

It is not realistic to pay £10 or whatever per day to use the car.

So, is this car one that now becomes scrap (criminal)?  If so, we'd run it until ULEZ and then scrap for the most we can get.

Is this a car that we are forced to sell at "ideal first car" bargain basement few pounds?

Is this a car that has reached the point where it stands to be a classic and we can sell for a more palatable sum?

[Deleted User]

^^
If it's absolutely immaculate like you say then please don't scrap it. Offer it for sale and someone outside of the ULEZ will snap it up. Too many nice old cars end up going for scrap needlessly.

GunJack

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^^
If it's absolutely immaculate like you say then please don't scrap it. Offer it for sale and someone outside of the ULEZ will snap it up. Too many nice old cars end up going for scrap needlessly.

THIS!!!!  In fact, I've even suggested this to you before now about this car....