Your Bangernomics successes

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I haven't driven the Megane anywhere yet apart from the couple of miles home so can't work out the MPG yet. Although the trip computer was saying 8.9MPG :eek: According to the seller and the MOT, it has only done 2K miles in the last year.

Waiting till April 1st for the tax so I don't lose a month by paying for March when it is nearly over. More so when it is £175 and going up next month!

takethatfan1978

Great bargain for the megane

I bought a 2000 plate megane coupe in 2008 and it was a wee cracker,went like sh** off a shovel. Very reliable,not bad mpg(average 36.2) and parts extremely cheap. It hardly cost me a thing and always passed mots,I loved it. I desperately wanted to keep it for longer but had the chance of a new car so had to make the most of the money. I sold it last year and its still on the go now. Not bad for a nearly 14 year old car.
My husbands friend is a renault specialist and is great with our cars never overcharged for parts etc.

£175 road tax is better than the £225 ish for my coupe. It was only a 1.6 petrol.

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takethatfan1978 wrote: »

£175 road tax is better than the £225 ish for my coupe. It was only a 1.6 petrol.

All my past cars have been band F or below so £175 is a big increase for me.

Going to order a new set of number plates off one of the Ebay sellers for a few pounds. I always think new plates set an old car off nicely.

CKhalvashi

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201403252791395/sort/default/usedcars/radius/10/price-to/1000/postcode/cm235nq/onesearchad/used%2Cnearlynew%2Cnew/page/1?logcode=p

Just spotted this for £450 if anyone wants a new banger.

Never heard of the dealer, but with full MoT, this seems to be another bargain.

If our 2 Focus's (see here and here) weren't working perfectly, I may have bought it myself......

CK

Rolandtheroadie

Update on the Merc, that's it got a years MOT.


£70 including the cost of the MOT, so £190 all in.

I've also got a couple of guys willing to pay £250 for the Passat. If they let me down, I'll put it on gumtree looking to swap for a motorbike with a wee bit MOT and tax, see what comes up.

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The Megane has just cost me £30 today for a new horn fitted at a local indie garage. Kicking myself for not testing it when I was buying the car!

Flying-High_2

Again Some Nice motors poppng up on here..... But Like I said......

Flying-High wrote: »

Been following this thread... Some cracking posts some not.....


Surely true Bangernomics success is where youre able to do all the maintenance yourself.? Or at least the great bulk of it with ideally pittance costing used parts or elcheapo and/or decent OE parts in areas where it matters...

Buying an elcheapo car then being quoted more than you paid for it for a job a !!!!!! Chimp with an argos tool set could do is surely not by any means a bangernomic success?.....

tvstudent

Flying-High wrote: »

Again Some Nice motors poppng up on here..... But Like I said......

Perhaps my new purchase might count then, although it was more that a grand.. Porsche 924 for 1500, bought because I can service and fix anything that goes wrong on it, and parts are cheap. Mpg is about 30. Decided to buy it after having an hdi that went wrong all the time, and needed a mechanic with a computer to fix it. Have joined a car club and they've already helped me fix a few niggles on my own (no prior mechanical experience) and should be able to sell it for the same amount I paid for it, if not more.

(sits back and waits for 'its not a real porsche', 'parts cost the earth' etc)

colino

If it's a 2.5, get both belts changed now! If it's a van, trundle merrily on.

MrLemur

Hello!

I've been reading through this thread and finding lots of interesting stuff. I've recently passed my test and been looking at the cheapest cars I can find (basically 5 doors and under £500).

I'm up in Scotland, so I know my options are somewhat less than down south. I've been checking Gumtree, eBay and Autotrader.

Just wondering if someone can point me to something I may have missed.

Cheers!