Your Bangernomics successes

Ganga

L9XSS said:

GunJack said:

Took Fusion Junior for it's MoT yesterday..... better than expected, just needs a middle section exhaust and the headlights buffing up So will have a fresh ticket for around £100 or less   There's a couple of tyres on the way out (Advisories) which'll be about £50-odd but they can wait for a couple of months.

That takes it to in the region of £1141 in total, 2 months into it's third year with me. Even with the tyres when I get them it'll be £1200 for 3 years, which ain't too bad at all.... Fusion senior spoiled me a bit at £900-odd for 3.5 years of ownership, but I'm hoping at only 103k miles I'll have Junior for several more years yet

This Fusion (senior & junior) have been very good buys and prove that you can still buy a good reliable “old car” to run for a number of years. The knack is understanding what car to go for. Although not bangernomics my 2008 Volvo V70 was bought 4 years ago at £2750, added a further 40,000 miles and apart from tyres, servicing and cambelt has been great. Comfortable, reliable. It’s coming up to 15 years old, I’d like to think it will see me another 10 years.

Just curios ,how much was a cambelt change.

L9XSS

Ganga said:

L9XSS said:

GunJack said:

Took Fusion Junior for it's MoT yesterday..... better than expected, just needs a middle section exhaust and the headlights buffing up So will have a fresh ticket for around £100 or less   There's a couple of tyres on the way out (Advisories) which'll be about £50-odd but they can wait for a couple of months.

That takes it to in the region of £1141 in total, 2 months into it's third year with me. Even with the tyres when I get them it'll be £1200 for 3 years, which ain't too bad at all.... Fusion senior spoiled me a bit at £900-odd for 3.5 years of ownership, but I'm hoping at only 103k miles I'll have Junior for several more years yet

This Fusion (senior & junior) have been very good buys and prove that you can still buy a good reliable “old car” to run for a number of years. The knack is understanding what car to go for. Although not bangernomics my 2008 Volvo V70 was bought 4 years ago at £2750, added a further 40,000 miles and apart from tyres, servicing and cambelt has been great. Comfortable, reliable. It’s coming up to 15 years old, I’d like to think it will see me another 10 years.

Just curios ,how much was a cambelt change.

With water pump (all genuine Volvo parts) and fitting iirc was about £400 but was about 4 years ago.....

GunJack

GunJack said:

Took Fusion Junior for it's MoT yesterday..... better than expected, just needs a middle section exhaust and the headlights buffing up So will have a fresh ticket for around £100 or less   There's a couple of tyres on the way out (Advisories) which'll be about £50-odd but they can wait for a couple of months.

That takes it to in the region of £1141 in total, 2 months into it's third year with me. Even with the tyres when I get them it'll be £1200 for 3 years, which ain't too bad at all.... Fusion senior spoiled me a bit at £900-odd for 3.5 years of ownership, but I'm hoping at only 103k miles I'll have Junior for several more years yet

Well, needed a back-box as well, so £197 altogether (the 2 parts were well and truly rusted together) so £1238 in total. Add £50-60 for the tyres when I get them still under £1300 and that should go through to next year's MoT (barring any unforseen disasters!! )

Coveredinbees!!!!

I don't know if our 2008 Kia Ceed counts as a banger as when we bought it it was £8k but it's not so new now but I can't justify getting rid of it as it just keeps going. It had a complete gear box under warrenty in 2016 but I lost confidence in my kia dealer when they cocked up changing the serpentine belt so now I don't go near the kia dealer. I've had to spend some money on it this year as it failed the MOT on brakes dragging, on inspection I found the pads were rusted out but worse still the calipers were leaking on both sides! It also needed 3 tyres but all cars need tyres. It's cost nearly £400 but hopefully I'll have at least another year out of the old gal. We only really use it for big shops, trips up the tip, holidays or when we need to get 5 people in. You can't get 5 in a twingo!

GunJack

No, deffo NOT counted as a Bangernomics car - you paid £8k for it!!  doesn't matter how long you have it, it's the purchase price that dictates...

Coveredinbees!!!!

That was 10 years ago, frankly I refuse to pay the amount they want for 2nd hand cars now so I'm keeping it until it dies.

GenieBoy

Still loving my 2002 MK1 Ghia with only 76K miles on the clock, it's a real hoot to drive. Although it appears the rust is starting to come through again on the rear sill which was originally patched up by previous owner.

Ditzy_Mitzy

GenieBoy said:

Still loving my 2002 MK1 Ghia with only 76K miles on the clock, it's a real hoot to drive. Although it appears the rust is starting to come through again on the rear sill which was originally patched up by previous owner.

Is that a two-litre?  I used to have a Ghia saloon, albeit slightly older, which wasn't a bad car at all but didn't quite have the handling of the hatchback.  Have now got a mark two, two-litre petrol hatchback which is excellent but not quite as poised as the earlier car and quite dull inside.  

GenieBoy

Ditzy_Mitzy said:

GenieBoy said:

Still loving my 2002 MK1 Ghia with only 76K miles on the clock, it's a real hoot to drive. Although it appears the rust is starting to come through again on the rear sill which was originally patched up by previous owner.

Is that a two-litre?  I used to have a Ghia saloon, albeit slightly older, which wasn't a bad car at all but didn't quite have the handling of the hatchback.  Have now got a mark two, two-litre petrol hatchback which is excellent but not quite as poised as the earlier car and quite dull inside.  

This is the 1.6 petrol with the Ghia spec.

My sister had a MK2 1.6 diesel but she had no end of problems with it so got shot of it.

Ditzy_Mitzy

GenieBoy said:

Ditzy_Mitzy said:

GenieBoy said:

Still loving my 2002 MK1 Ghia with only 76K miles on the clock, it's a real hoot to drive. Although it appears the rust is starting to come through again on the rear sill which was originally patched up by previous owner.

Is that a two-litre?  I used to have a Ghia saloon, albeit slightly older, which wasn't a bad car at all but didn't quite have the handling of the hatchback.  Have now got a mark two, two-litre petrol hatchback which is excellent but not quite as poised as the earlier car and quite dull inside.  

This is the 1.6 petrol with the Ghia spec.

My sister had a MK2 1.6 diesel but she had no end of problems with it so got shot of it.

Ah, the small engined ones are reputed to be even better to drive (I wouldn't know; despite having driven many mark ones, I've never actually had a go in one of the more common small petrol variants).  The bigger engined cars have a clunky gearchange action.  

I have driven a 1.6 diesel mark two and found it unrefined and underpowered - fortunately it was a pool car, so maintenance was someone else's problem!  The petrols, especially the Mazda ones, are another matter.