Your Bangernomics successes

Northern_Wanderer

mr_harris said:

GunJack said:

Emergency Assist (I think) is one we started our oldest on, they were pretty cheap

Hi Gunjack have you ever had to call Emergency Assist out? if so was there any good. many thanks

I have and had a mechanic within 20 minutes. I just needed a jump but was impresssed with the waiting time.

Northern_Wanderer

mr_harris said:

Hi All

Just wondering what company you use for breakdown cover for your old cars

Emergency Assist

For our Saver and Premium membership levels, there is no restriction on the maximum age of vehicle. For our Personal based membership, this provides cover in any vehicle under 15 years of age.

GunJack

mr_harris said:

GunJack said:

Emergency Assist (I think) is one we started our oldest on, they were pretty cheap

Hi Gunjack have you ever had to call Emergency Assist out? if so was they any good. many thanks

We did once, they used one of the local independents (in the same way green flag, RAC, whoever do) so we got a known quantity and it was all ok.

mr_harris

Thanks for both replies

GunJack

GunJack said:

GunJack said:

After not getting the advisory tyres from last MoT until March this year, I've been good and gone and got this year's yesterday, so total spend on Fusion Junior is £1328. Will get the advisory shock absorber done in the next couple of months when I know I can be without the car for a day. 

Well, I got the shock done last week for the princely sum of £81.26, so 3.5 years of ownership for £1410 and looking like a clean bill of health (barring any disasters) for next Mar/Apr MoT, so that'll take it to £1410 for 4 years, or £352 per year....that's not too shabby

It's February, so that's 4 years of Fusion Junior ownership Nothing else to report, and feels like it'll be A-OK for this year's MoT which it can go for from March 12th..so yes, £1410 for 4 years and still got a good few miles left in it yet. It;s lasted 6 months longer than Fusion Senior did, and still only has 116k on the clock (Fusion Sr had around 155k before the clutch gave up) so 155k is the target for Junior!!

GunJack

GunJack said:

GunJack said:

GunJack said:

After not getting the advisory tyres from last MoT until March this year, I've been good and gone and got this year's yesterday, so total spend on Fusion Junior is £1328. Will get the advisory shock absorber done in the next couple of months when I know I can be without the car for a day. 

Well, I got the shock done last week for the princely sum of £81.26, so 3.5 years of ownership for £1410 and looking like a clean bill of health (barring any disasters) for next Mar/Apr MoT, so that'll take it to £1410 for 4 years, or £352 per year....that's not too shabby

It's February, so that's 4 years of Fusion Junior ownership Nothing else to report, and feels like it'll be A-OK for this year's MoT which it can go for from March 12th..so yes, £1410 for 4 years and still got a good few miles left in it yet. It;s lasted 6 months longer than Fusion Senior did, and still only has 116k on the clock (Fusion Sr had around 155k before the clutch gave up) so 155k is the target for Junior!!

OK, so last Friday 21 March was M-Day for Fusion Junior, and there was good news and bad news....
 
Good News - it passed again!! well, actually I had to put a £5 wiper blade on it to pass, but that makes a grand total of £1415 into it's 5th year with me...still runs like a dream and still great on the economy

Bad News - found a couple of patches that'll need welding before next year's ticket, awkward place where the brake pipes run. It'll cost £250 to put right, but it's not desperate...

So, quandry - this may be the last year for Fusion Jnr with me, but if it keeps running fine I may well get the welding done and have another year or two out of it. Or, I keep an eye on what comes up at a decent price and buy a replacement at any point through this year, and shift Jr on either private sale or scrap (which I think it's too good for but is less hassle ) It owes me nowt, and if I just keep it for this year that'll be £1415 for 5 years motoring, or £283 per year for it's time with me. That's not shabby at all, well happy with it.

Which way will I go?? Dunno today, but I've got up to a year to  make my mind up  

GunJack

For anyone who has/is following this thread (other than me ) yesterday was both a good and bad day....

After 4.5 years, Fusion Junior has gone Thankfully not to a scrapyard, but to someone who needed a cheap as chips car for their first car, to hopefully start stacking up NCD in, as they've got their test this week and are expecting/hoping to pass. It's still running like a dream, and hopefully with only 117k on it it will for a few more years yet. Total cost to buy & maintain for 4.5 years as per my last post, £1415.

This also means I'm leaving Bangernomics behind for a few years at least, after many years of doing it (and being quite good at it, if I do say so myself ). I picked up Junior's replacement on Saturday morning, and with a nett buying cost of £1500 (£1800 purchase price - £300 I sold Junior for) that takes me officially out of the game for at least however long the new motor lasts me for. 

Doesn't mean I won't be checking in periodically to see how other people are getting on though  

Farzackerly

The original £1000 purchase limit was yonks ago and taking inflation into account it's nearly double now.

Anyway, VW Fox has just shat the bed with the front left McPherson strut, so I'll be getting a pair done soon.

I've just acquired a set of steel wheels that I'm fitting 185/60-14 tyres to, instead of the ridiculously shallow 195/50-15 tyres that are on the alloys that came with the car.

One pothole was all it took to bend a front alloy and I'm bloody sure that same shock was responsible for the strut crapping out.

I hate these alloys - utterly unnecessary and it's not as if they're any lighter than the steels anyway.

GunJack

Farzackerly said:

The original £1000 purchase limit was yonks ago and taking inflation into account it's nearly double now.

Anyway, VW Fox has just shat the bed with the front left McPherson strut, so I'll be getting a pair done soon.

I've just acquired a set of steel wheels that I'm fitting 185/60-14 tyres to, instead of the ridiculously shallow 195/50-15 tyres that are on the alloys that came with the car.

One pothole was all it took to bend a front alloy and I'm bloody sure that same shock was responsible for the strut crapping out.

I hate these alloys - utterly unnecessary and it's not as if they're any lighter than the steels anyway.

Does that mean I still qualify with my new one?!?!? Must admit I'm torn - I get the inflation argument, and that used prices haven't fully come back down since covid, but....

Potholes are a pain no matter what you're in...our "posh" car, a Peugeot 3008, hit one that took out both driver's side coils at a princely amount of £1k to sort out, and that was with our long-time trusted local garage, never mind main dealer...apparently they're a total pig to change

ididgetwhereiamtoday

Anything under 3K is now easily bangernomics I reckon. Probably higher than that in reality.