sub £1000 car - cambelt

jase1

1k car? My Mondeo is only worth £1000 and I'm pretty sure it has a fair few years left in it.

£250, maybe.

Still question the logic of paying £800 for a 16 year old, run-of-the-mill car though. These VWs are far too much money second-hand -- it's not as if they're even above average for reliability.

catoutthebag

EdGasket wrote: »

ABS light on = MoT failure

Abs light is off. That's a 'posting failure'

catoutthebag

EdGasket wrote: »

Buying a car with only one key, the check light on (oh yeah its only a sensor mate), and from a guy you meet in a service station is a high risk strategy in my book. How do you even know its not stolen?

Stolen? From a garage where I have history of the car and where I'd have to tell dvla of change of owner etc. We yeah right. Sorry your post was idiotic (no offence - these paranoid and negative ones are quite common here. ..I got a good deal - get over it)

EdGasket

catoutthebag wrote: »

Stolen? From a garage where I have history of the car and where I'd have to tell dvla of change of owner etc. We yeah right. Sorry your post was idiotic (no offence - these paranoid and negative ones are quite common here. ..I got a good deal - get over it)

Post 19 you said "So I bought the car. Just at a service station." Sounds like it was on neutral ground and not at the seller's address. Always a no no.

"We yeah right. Sorry your post was idiotic " - I think you sound like an idiot "We yeah right." :rotfl:

Anyway as you seemed determined to do your own thing I can't see why you asked for advice in the first place?

kev25v6

A 1k car is only really going to last a year or so without something major needing doing so i wouldn't be bothering changing a cambelt on one just because you don't know if it's been done or not. A full cambelt kit plus fitting would be half the value of the car. I wouldn't spend much on any car sub 1500 quid, it's just not worth putting money into, it's normally easier to get rid cheap and find another one to run for a year.

EdGasket

kev25v6 wrote: »

A 1k car is only really going to last a year or so without something major needing doing

Really? I'm in the ninth year with my £1,000 car bought in January 2007 and 4th year with a £750 car bought in Jan 2012. (and before you suggest it; no they are not just kept standing, they are both workhorses on which I have done 74K miles on one and 25K on the other including a lot of around town stop/start driving).

jimjames

Marktheshark wrote: »

ALL cars have No road tax.
Anyone telling you different is lying.
You have to Tax the car the same day you sign the Logbook or you get a penalty charge in the post.
There is no "leeway"

Not strictly true that you HAVE to pay the tax that day.


You can also SORN it immediately you buy it but then can't drive it until it is taxed.


Planning on buying a car on 30th, SORN it and then tax next day so you get a full month.

kev25v6

EdGasket wrote: »

Really? I'm in the ninth year with my £1,000 car bought in January 2007 and 4th year with a £750 car bought in Jan 2012. (and before you suggest it; no they are not just kept standing, they are both workhorses on which I have done 74K miles on one and 25K on the other including a lot of around town stop/start driving).

A car of that age would be getting ready for lots of work needing doing, things like brakes, suspension, bushes, full service, Auxillary belts. Lots of jobs that could easily cost in total more than what was paid for the car. If buying very cheap just expect to have to pay out more often than what you would a newer car.

patman99

The Tax issue is easily got around. The V5 takes a couple of days to reach the DVLA, so you can come to an arrangement with the seller to say that you are test-driving it and have left the full value in lieu.