Your Bangernomics successes

Farzackerly

colino wrote: »

You would be much better off upgrading your ICE going to a local specialist. They normally advertise in local press and while they do fit the mental systems to Corsas with 3 cylinders, they will have a range of decent value systems too.

This. You stand a better chance of a reasonably decent installation, too. The untrained monkeys in Halfords don't have a clue about electrical safety - or more to the point, your safety in a burning car caused by their screw-ups.

Rolandtheroadie

Needing to do another CV joint on the Audi, a couple of tyres and a couple of strut top's.
Probably £150 all told, so I thought I'd add this one up.

£550 to buy, £310 for another years MOT, £100 on tyres, £35 on CV joint, £15 on strut tops. So around £1000 for my 13 months so far.

Might spend the £150 (or £50 if I leave out the tyres) and get rid of it. Washed and polished it should look the part, I'd like to think I'd get back what I paid for it (I'll throw in a full tank of fuel and leave the tax on it).

andygb

scotsman4th wrote: »

Needing to do another CV joint on the Audi, a couple of tyres and a couple of strut top's.
Probably £150 all told, so I thought I'd add this one up.

£550 to buy, £310 for another years MOT, £100 on tyres, £35 on CV joint, £15 on strut tops. So around £1000 for my 13 months so far.

Might spend the £150 (or £50 if I leave out the tyres) and get rid of it. Washed and polished it should look the part, I'd like to think I'd get back what I paid for it (I'll throw in a full tank of fuel and leave the tax on it).

Once you have had the work done, wouldn't you rather keep it and run it?
I only ask this, because I did the same to my Mondeo earlier in the year, and I know that if I sold it, I couldn't get anything like it for the price.
Better the devil you know;)

Rolandtheroadie

andygb wrote: »

Once you have had the work done, wouldn't you rather keep it and run it?
I only ask this, because I did the same to my Mondeo earlier in the year, and I know that if I sold it, I couldn't get anything like it for the price.
Better the devil you know;)

Might end up like that, but I fancy a change to be honest.

It'll depend if something comes up that I like or not.

Currently looking at vehicles, but it could easily be a motorbike rather than a car.

sabretoothtigger

Dont Audi have expensive things to go wrong. If its a good car, keep it in the family if its a ticking time bomb then fair enough

Rolandtheroadie

It's a 1994 tdi, with nearly 220k on the clock. Seems to be pretty bomb proof really but it's at a certain age where all the bits that wear are wearing.

Replaced a few bushes for the MOT, discs and pads, but the tester advised the front subframe was starting to look a bit tatty.

Belts/water pump/tensioners all done a couple of years ago (by a previous owner).

If the CV joint and the strut tops improve it, I'll have another think about it.

YoungBusinessman

Someone i know just paid £300 for a saxo and i must admit the condition its in etc its a topper of a little car!! Heres me planning on buying a golf gti....might get another bangernomic wrx first

MC89

The original post is a year or so old but this thread is still going so I'll join in.

Bought a '53 plate Astra SXi in May 2012 for £985 with 52k on the clock, on eBay. I didn't even view the car before bidding - I saw the ad, it looked nice & clean but never for one moment did I think it'd go for sub-£1000. I decided to bid anyway, and ended up winning it. It had an MOT that ran until this month.

Jumped on a bus with £1100+ in my back pocket (it had no tax) and picked it up. Test drove it, went like a dream so handed over the ££££.

One year on I've spent just under £450 on it. Two new tyres @ £70 a pop (Kwik Fit Ditchfinder Special); the first one was thanks to a nail through the sidewall, the second was low on tread.

Spent £210 having the timing belt & water pump changed. This wasn't out of necessity, more preventative maintenance. Spent another £90 on new front brake pads and a track rod end after I'd had the car 4-5 months. Turns out the pads were almost completely gone.

Had it MOT'd today and it passed with 3 items on the advisory notice; worn brake discs, corroded brake pipes & a loose anti-roll something or other.

For a 10 year old car with FSH and such a low mileage, I can't complain!

ShandyAndy_2

MC89 wrote: »

The original post is a year or so old but this thread is still going so I'll join in.

Bought a '53 plate Astra SXi in May 2012 for £985 with 52k on the clock, on eBay. I didn't even view the car before bidding - I saw the ad, it looked nice & clean but never for one moment did I think it'd go for sub-£1000. I decided to bid anyway, and ended up winning it. It had an MOT that ran until this month.

Jumped on a bus with £1100+ in my back pocket (it had no tax) and picked it up. Test drove it, went like a dream so handed over the ££££.

One year on I've spent just under £450 on it. Two new tyres @ £70 a pop (Kwik Fit Ditchfinder Special); the first one was thanks to a nail through the sidewall, the second was low on tread.

Spent £210 having the timing belt & water pump changed. This wasn't out of necessity, more preventative maintenance. Spent another £90 on new front brake pads and a track rod end after I'd had the car 4-5 months. Turns out the pads were almost completely gone.

Had it MOT'd today and it passed with 3 items on the advisory notice; worn brake discs, corroded brake pipes & a loose anti-roll something or other.

For a 10 year old car with FSH and such a low mileage, I can't complain!

Did the brake pipes on my astra G last year and your looking at a £500 plus job, the brake pipe and nuts are dirt cheap its the labour and they are common on the astra G. My advice is to grease them up and hope they don't pop like mine did on the brake test,bloody dangerous!. I have not long scrapped it as the head gasket had gone!.

MC89

ShandyAndy wrote: »

Did the brake pipes on my astra G last year and your looking at a £500 plus job, the brake pipe and nuts are dirt cheap its the labour and they are common on the astra G. My advice is to grease them up and hope they don't pop like mine did on the brake test,bloody dangerous!. I have not long scrapped it as the head gasket had gone!.

£500?! What sort of garage was that at?