Going to Aberdeen this afternoon to collect a bmw 730d but dont know if I have made the right decision as the present owner assures me the indicators work !!
^^^^ so they bloody well should. After all they’ve probably never been used! 
the maoster:
^^^^ so they bloody well should. After all they’ve probably never been used!
The trouble with a semi decent car is you have to pour money in to it to keep it semi decent. I used to have a semi decent A4 but ditched it for a £400 micra that lasted 3 years. Now got a £700 fiat (fix it again tomorrow) that so far hasn’t let me down.
Does anyone do the brand new car thing where you trade it in for another brand new one every time the warranty runs out? How much does that cost on average each time you upgrade?
Captain Caveman 76:
the maoster:
^^^^ so they bloody well should. After all they’ve probably never been used!
so what should I do use them, or continue in that trend as I don’t want to be seen as any different to the norm ? 
Ched:
The trouble with a semi decent car is you have to pour money in to it to keep it semi decent. I used to have a semi decent A4 but ditched it for a £400 micra that lasted 3 years. Now got a £700 fiat (fix it again tomorrow) that so far hasn’t let me down.Does anyone do the brand new car thing where you trade it in for another brand new one every time the warranty runs out? How much does that cost on average each time you upgrade?
I’ve got a mate that does that, it’s okay of you get your head around the fact you’re basically renting the dealers future second hand stock, unless you pay the second half of the payments that is. Ford call it options. Say it’s a 10k fiesta, you’ll pay 5k over 2 years, then you can either a) walk away with nothing to show, b) give the car back and go again on another one, or c) pay the 7k, the other 5 plus interest and buy it. Trouble with c, is if you don’t have it on the hip, you’ll get a loan for 7, pay back 9 over 3 years, and then it’s taken you 5 years to pay 14k for a bloody fiesta!!!
We have 2 cars the wife has a 64 plate Ford Kuga, while I have a 52 plate Fiesta. I do 20 miles a week in it, bought for £800 2 years ago sailed through mots. The wife lets me use her car now & then 
In the eyes of some I’m moving from one crappy car to another…
Me and my girlfriend have just bought on eBay an 03 plate MG ZT 2.5 V6 for 400 quid with not a lot wrong
DAF95XF:
In the eyes of some I’m moving from one crappy car to another…
Me and my girlfriend have just bought on eBay an 03 plate MG ZT 2.5 V6 for 400 quid with not a lot wrong
My mate had the 75 2.5 v6, only thing that went wrong - so a bit of a heads up, sometimes it wouldn’t start, just turn over, go for a brew, come back and it’d start.
It was the TDC sensor on top, cam sensor.?, and was easily replaced and quite cheap.
I don’t understand why anyone would buy new from a dealer. You could get a car (all be it japanese with the best engineering in the world) for 12k like an evo 9 that would put smiles on your face all day. A guy called Ryan Woon has a Toyota Supra in the drag scene. Thing is used on the road and would wipe the floor with anything you can buy from a dealer.
youtu.be/OhF1I9-QDpk
That’s a quarter mile by the way…
Although I’m not a trucker at the moment (waiting for a job opportunity) I drive a MK3 Granada,paid £600 for it 
I’ve bought a brand new Ford Ka in the past,seems to attract supermarket car park dents,and it was reversed into on one occasion. It eventually depreciated in value,and sold it before it lost more in value.
I’m hoping to get my MK5 Cortina on the road soon
i tend to go for the newer stuff and hang on to it.
i`ve only ever bought 3 cars,2 of which are still in the family.
I would have said my car is a bit of a banger as it’s 13 yrs old with 170,000mi on the clock but as it’s a Audi A6 it’s still just out of nappies, the 2.5 v6 TDI pulls like a train.
Took it in for MOT this morning with fingers crossed and it flew through
I was considering getting rid and getting a face lift Merc but I think I’ll hang on to it for a few more years, plenty of life in the old girl yet
08 Peugeot 207. 3k.
300 insurance
30 road tax.
10£ per 100 miles diesel.
25 miles daly commute. works well and reasonably comfortable little car. it is all about counting penny’s
08 Audi A3 2.0 TDI S-Line Black Edition
Insurance: £350
TAX: £145
MPG: 50 (Sensible Driving )
Normal MPG: 45, with additional tyre wear/cost. (£130 each)
A bit more expensive to run than the Peugeot 207 above, but a hell of a lot more fun cornering on rails with sports suspension, and brakes that try to make you lick the windscreen!
I have a 2011 Honda Accord CTDi Sport and does 45mpg all day long and is a great reliable well built car.
Just bought a 2013 Kia Sorento KX2 SUV this morn to pull the caravan with towbar already fitted.
40mpg easy enough
2.2diesel
Near 200bhp
7seats
7yrs warranty
£180road tax
Got a real sharp deal as plenty about due to new model Sorento just out and buying straight!!!
I ******* hate driving cars, er’ indoors drives our 59 plate Auris D4D a staggeringly dull vehicle but totally reliable and cheap to own.
After owning sports bikes anything with 4 wheels is painfully dull, I use a god awful T reg 650 Deauville for my 45 mile commute, £900 30,000 miles ago, £60 insurance 65 to the gallon and toll free on the Severn bridge I do my own spannering £20 odd a week as opposed to £70 in the car result!!
Would like something nice to re ignite my interest in cars, I would also like one last litre sport bike, however I ride like a t*** and am well overdue a big off.
Fancy an A3 Sline or similar I do like the Impreza diesel as well having owned a petrol version some years ago, the beauty of motorcycles is you don’t have to be stuck behind a bunch of hapless amateurs, the down side is these people are the ones most likely to kill you.
My 13 year ol MG ZS passed it’s MOT last week. It does a 316 mile round trip to work, has just 92000 miles on the clock, and has only cost me £43 since I bought it. That was for an auxilliary belt that frayed and the cost of the MOT. Bargain. 
The original question is well-and-truly getting answered here eh?
“We like old bangers because they don’t depreciate as much as expensive second hand or brand new cars”.
“The motoring cost per year - includes the cost of keeping the car on the road. It also costs the full depreciation that occurs”
“If you pay £500 for a car, the worst that can happen is you lose £500 for totally trashing it, failing to get it through an MOT, or whatever. If you pay £5000 for a car, you’ve lost £500 as soon as you put your bum on the seat… If you buy a brand new car - you’ve lost TEN times that amount - by the time you have paid for number plates, delivery, lost time when it’s offroad under warrentry, and of course taking the cellephane off the seat in the showroom…”
Me? - Having already admitted that I am a serial banger user - I’d like to think I’ve got this to a fine art…
I only buy bangers with a long MOT (10months+)
I judge “minor” things wrong at car trading places - because if they “couldn’t be arsed to fix that windscreen chip” or “broken number plate” etc. - then what else “less obvious” is going to be wrong with it?
I bought my latest banger a week ago. I was impressed by it having NEW TYRES on it… Paid £450 and after a week of using it for work - I’ve noticed the following minor ailments:
Key opens passenger door, but not driver’s door.
Fob battery flat. - Not worth replacing for a car I only want a year out of.
When engine is cold, it conks out if I let it idle. - Mixture too thin?
Engine is fine once running hot…
Smell of petrol if I go around a tight right-handed bend… Crack in tank halfway up LHS of tank?
I bought it with 11 months MOT on it.
Next year, I’ll put it in for the MOT - and if it fails on some minor stuff, I’ll spend the money getting it fixed. Anything major, and I’ll scrap it for over £100 as I did my last banger I paid £400 for.
I’m no grease monkey - it has to be said. I know more about fixing computers than cars.
The Long MOT being present is my strongest “must have” condition when buying an old banger. I’ll even take it for a test drive around the block to see what I can notice “major” that might put me off buying it. Knocking sounds, pinking, wheel wobble - that sort of thing.
So far, I’ve hardly used any petrol at all - despite the smell I get when sloshing it around bends. I’m unable to measure MPG for the time being. I need a decent run out first I reckons, when I get to fill it right up, then go 200 miles non-stop.
commonrail reminds me of several years ago I was chatting to a young mechanic who said he’d had 24 cars in the 2 years he’d been driving to which I let out a guffaw and told him I’d had 2 cars in 25 years! Mad me laugh anyway.