Somebody has offered me their old banger

Notmyrealname

Take the car. It is worth around £150 scrap.

colino

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth, take it, assess it and if it really needs money (as opposed to your spare time) ebay it or scrap it. Enough to fill up the Mondeo a couple of times for little effort.

forgotmyname

As above, Take the car and phone the scrap man, £100 for a phone call sounds good to me.
Unless you know someone else that may want it or even buy it as is?

pendulum

I wish people would offer me cars for free,
You wouldn't catch me moaning

andygb

pendulum wrote: »

I wish people would offer me cars for free,
You wouldn't catch me moaning

Ah yes, but if you were offered a car for free, and took someone up on the offer because you were short on cash, how would you feel if it needed £££s spending in a very short time and you had nowhere to keep the car?
What may seem a bargain at first may not be.

albionrovers

Don't touch, it'll just block your driveway.

James_Nolan

Take it, put it through an MOT. If it passes, sell it Anything with 12 months MOT will be worth at least a few hundred quid.

If it fails the MOT, ebay it, break it for parts or send it to the scrapman. Either way, your going to be in profit!

Can't see a reason why you wouldn't take it!

Hadrian

Reading thro' what you have written I can't for the life of me think why you are even considering taking this heap! Tell them straight - 'get rid of your old banger yourself '. The very idea is ludicrous in the extreme. From what you have said there's at least half a dozen GOOD reasons for an outright refusal to take on their problem. I'm quite amazed that you even considered it. They say that there is "One born ever minute" - are you going to be that one!!:mad:

fivetide

James_Nolan wrote: »

Take it, put it through an MOT. If it passes, sell it Anything with 12 months MOT will be worth at least a few hundred quid.

If it fails the MOT, ebay it, break it for parts or send it to the scrapman. Either way, your going to be in profit!

Can't see a reason why you wouldn't take it!

This would be my thinking.

Mate picked up a Mondeo with a 'gearbox fault' for a few hundred quid as he was after some bits for another and planned to scrap it but it wasn't half bad so chanced an MOT.

Turned out the 'gearbox fault' was actually a wheel bearing. Car was suddenly worth over a grand again. Result.

Sometimes old cars can surprise you a bit and as said, if it fails you've got £150 in scrap value for it straight away. I fail to see how it would be blocking your drive for eternity with people like cartakeback willing to come round and have it away.

The only issue is the insurance. If it's still covered by him, get it tested before you 'buy it' so it'll be legal to drive.

5t.

andygb

Hadrian wrote: »

Reading thro' what you have written I can't for the life of me think why you are even considering taking this heap! Tell them straight - 'get rid of your old banger yourself '. The very idea is ludicrous in the extreme. From what you have said there's at least half a dozen GOOD reasons for an outright refusal to take on their problem. I'm quite amazed that you even considered it. They say that there is "One born ever minute" - are you going to be that one!!:mad:

Calm down, calm down:rotfl:

Blimey, you are going to blow a gasket if you carry on like that.
I have owned over thirty cars in my life, and most of them owe me nothing, because I am interested in them, and can do my own basic mechanics.

I am 90% sure that I am not going to go for it, because there are too many things against it, and there is the distance (over 70 miles away) to consider, plus where to put it when I get it back.
It is a close relation, who I advised not to buy the car four years ago (he paid £1400 for it:eek:), and he is still under the impression that he could sell it for over a grand - dream on!