Your Bangernomics successes

scheming_gypsy

scheming_gypsy wrote: »

I'm at the point where I'm wondering if it was worth buying and sort of regretting it. but when the issues are sorted I'll probably change my mind.

Had it checked over and the list of things that would need doing would make it too expensive for the MOT. Listed it on Gumtree with an honest advert and sold it for what I paid for it, cost me the petrol money to collect it, but we had a road trip

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scheming_gypsy wrote: »

Had it checked over and the list of things that would need doing would make it too expensive for the MOT. Listed it on Gumtree with an honest advert and sold it for what I paid for it, cost me the petrol money to collect it, but we had a road trip

That's what I find with that FB cars group. A lot of mis-described junk. People getting rid of cars because they need a lot of work or dodgy back street garages pretending to be public.

scheming_gypsy

I was suspicious of cars on it straight away but let me heart rule my head (miss my last T5 estate), although there's a RAV4 LPG convert on eBay that I might keep my eye on instead.

Raksha

IMHO there are some real bargains to be had with LPG convertions.

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penthouse89 wrote: »

Honda Accord can't come highly recommended enough from me.

Mine has been fantastic, at has recently turned 140k.

Might need a few jobs for its MOT, but nothing massive.

I bought a 1986 accord in 1989, not a banger at the time, but I still had it when I quit work in 1997 so I kept running it till I quit driving in 2004, by which time it had done 200k.

I've been watching reliability surveys since I bought it, and the only two manufacturers who always have a car in the top 5 are Honda and Toyota. Others put in an occasional appearance, but they don't stay.

Repairs are not the cheap, but on a cost per mile basis they're still cheapest because there are fewer of them.

Another factor to bear in mind, if you were to spend say £5k on a car it would cost about £500 a year in depreciation, and another £100 in interest on capital. You can afford to treat £500 cars as disposable.

CKhalvashi

Mother's joined me with a new car, and I cleaned it on Saturday, as it's been owned by a woman with a love of pink fleece's!

It's a 1.8 Focus ('W' reg) Ghia, replacing a 1.8 Zetec of the same age, with 453k miles. She's scrapped the old one (£300, including radio) and paid £900 for this.

Let me know what you think! It's going to be doing Bishop's Stortford to Cambridge, 5 days a week, so around 1000 miles a month, plus one trip a year to mainland Europe.

CK

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CKhalvashi wrote: »

Mother's joined me with a new car, and I cleaned it on Saturday, as it's been owned by a woman with a love of pink fleece's!

It's a 1.8 Focus ('W' reg) Ghia, replacing a 1.8 Zetec of the same age, with 453k miles. She's scrapped the old one (£300, including radio) and paid £900 for this.

Let me know what you think! It's going to be doing Bishop's Stortford to Cambridge, 5 days a week, so around 1000 miles a month, plus one trip a year to mainland Europe.

CK

Don't find quality bangernomics like that in my neck of the woods.

CKhalvashi

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Don't find quality bangernomics like that in my neck of the woods.

It's tight as a nut to drive, really good car for the money!

1 owner from new, too!

scheming_gypsy

Might be picking up a Focus to replace the duff Volvo. The mate who has a garage usually hears of some and he mentioned an MOT failed Focus estate that failed on 'a few small things', for £150.

colino

That Focus is a perfect example of buying wisely by condition, not by plate.