How can I find the car I want?

anewman

fuzzgun19 wrote: »

Thanks for that iwanttosave! I have edited it.

The car I have ATM is a Skoda Felicia hatchback. I've had it for 3 years and it belonged to my parents B4 that.

It has a few things wrong with it though and i'm looking to replace.

In that case if that one is off to the scrap it would be ideal to pull all the good bits off that (assuming you have somewhere to keep them) like alternator, headlights, seat belts, seats, dashboard, instrument panel, even window glass if so inclined (basically anything and everything you can pull off it, a haynes manual will help here) and weight it in as scrap metal - and buy a Skoda Felicia estate as a replacement. Could even keep body panels/doors if the same colour. Then if the alternator goes in the new felicia, you have a spare to hand and if you feel confident enough from your experience of pulling the alternator off to put one in (reverse of removal with ensuring the drive belt is correctly tensioned) the cost to you is an hour or two's time annoyance, compared with paying some mechanic £80 to do 15 minutes work. Felicia's are quite basic well laid out cars under the bonnet making it easy to fiddle with compared with many other cars.