After the cambelt scare on the 306, we though we'd go for something different ...

SB118

SB118

SB118

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... we've not had a white one before :D

5 door d-turbo, 200k on the clock, huge wedge of service history with it (belts done 30k ago), 11 months MOT, 1 months tax. Advertised for £600, bloke refused to go any lower than £550, got it for £520.

Could do with a wash and polish though! And i can swap the fogs from our current car before we sell it.

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Interior is horrid, but we can swap the half leathers form our other 5 door so that's not a problem.

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And after owning the car for nearly an hour, i need to skin one of the dogs :mad:

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Lucas pump on it, but that will be changing in the next couple of weeks and i'll give it another cambelt then, just to be sure.

Happy bunny :)
 
When you add up how much you have spent buying cars like this in the last 24 month does it exceed the value of a... better more reliable car in the first place?
 
In the last 2 years, she's had a 5 door d-turbo (made a profit), a cat-c corsa sxi (made a nice profit), 206cc (lost £150), 306 non-turbo which is where is all went pear shaped with the cambelt hassle. Car is running fine so we can sell it, she just lost faith in it. And now she's got another 5 door d-turbo.

Once we sell the "spare" 306, we'll be "up" as to the spend on the cars.
 
SB118 said:
In the last 2 years, she's had a 5 door d-turbo (made a profit), a cat-c corsa sxi (made a nice profit), 206cc (lost £150), 306 non-turbo which is where is all went pear shaped with the cambelt hassle. Car is running fine so we can sell it, she just lost faith in it. And now she's got another 5 door d-turbo.

Once we sell the "spare" 306, we'll be "up" as to the spend on the cars.
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Bravo.

*applauds*
 
agw_01 said:
Would that be me, or rover416i? :p
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Or Phail.

SB118 said:
In the last 2 years, she's had a 5 door d-turbo (made a profit), a cat-c corsa sxi (made a nice profit), 206cc (lost £150), 306 non-turbo which is where is all went pear shaped with the cambelt hassle. Car is running fine so we can sell it, she just lost faith in it. And now she's got another 5 door d-turbo.

Once we sell the "spare" 306, we'll be "up" as to the spend on the cars.
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Fox didn't ask have you made a profit, he asked if you add all the car's purchase values up, could you have not simply bought ONE decent car? What about if you add repairs, consumables, TAX (why buy a car with 1 month tax, really?), etc?

FWIW, you could have bought one decent car and sold that for a profit, so the whole "profit" argument is null.
 
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[TW]Fox;15655982 said:
When you add up how much you have spent buying cars like this in the last 24 month does it exceed the value of a... better more reliable car in the first place?
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paradigm said:
Fox didn't ask have you made a profit, he asked if you add all the car's purchase values up, could you have not simply bought ONE decent car? What about if you add repairs, consumables, TAX (why buy a car with 1 month tax, really?), etc?

FWIW, you could have bought one decent car and sold that for a profit, so the whole "profit" argument is null.
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Better is a matter of taste, all of the cars we've had have been good (i wasn't a fan of the 206cc, but it ticked all the boxes for her), the 1st d-turbo was good, the corsa was depressingly good, this 306 has only had a problem due to a belt failure.

More reliable? d-turbo, never broke down, corsa, never broke down, 206cc, never broke down, current 306, belt failure, repaired, running again. So out of the 4 cars there has been one mechanical failure. I'm failing to see a point to the reliability argument here.

Adding up the purchase costs doesn't make any sense either as selling one car has funded the next and so on. It's not like i've had a pot with 5k in it which we've slowly worked through to buy a selection of cars and then thrown them away when we got bored of them.

And why buy a car with 1 months tax? Because it's a bargaining point. If there was nothing wrong with it, everything was perfect and it had 12 months tax, i'd have no way of working the price down.
 
SB118 said:
Better is a matter of taste, all of the cars we've had have been good (i wasn't a fan of the 206cc, but it ticked all the boxes for her), the 1st d-turbo was good, the corsa was depressingly good, this 306 has only had a problem due to a belt failure.

More reliable? d-turbo, never broke down, corsa, never broke down, 206cc, never broke down, current 306, belt failure, repaired, running again. So out of the 4 cars there has been one mechanical failure. I'm failing to see a point to the reliability argument here.
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You post complaining about your car's "issues" more than anyone else I know of. Does that mean you were lying in the past, or lying now?

Adding up the purchase costs doesn't make any sense either as selling one car has funded the next and so on. It's not like i've had a pot with 5k in it which we've slowly worked through to buy a selection of cars and then thrown them away when we got bored of them.
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Perhaps, but saving up would work, rather than buy shed after shed.

And why buy a car with 1 months tax? Because it's a bargaining point. If there was nothing wrong with it, everything was perfect and it had 12 months tax, i'd have no way of working the price down.
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So, total saving off asking price, £80. Cost of 12-months tax £190, saving = -£110. Well done.
 
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SB118 said:
Car is running fine so we can sell it, she just lost faith in it. And now she's got another 5 door d-turbo.
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If that one went bang, but then thing that went wrong is now sorted, surely she is better off sticking that one than moving to a 200k+ mile car and starting again with all the risks?
 
SB118 said:
In the last 2 years, she's had a 5 door d-turbo (made a profit), a cat-c corsa sxi (made a nice profit), 206cc (lost £150), 306 non-turbo which is where is all went pear shaped with the cambelt hassle. Car is running fine so we can sell it, she just lost faith in it. And now she's got another 5 door d-turbo.

Once we sell the "spare" 306, we'll be "up" as to the spend on the cars.
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How much total have the cars cost you in the past 2 years though dude, A+B+C?

For instance, we are getting rid of the Neon for something a bit newer and a bit more economical, we paid £2.5 k for it three years ago, we were offered £1800 trade in on saturday against a £3k 04 plate mondeo tdci 130

Or They are selling in similar nick for £2.5- £2.8k.

So at worse its cost me £700 for 3 years trouble free motoring, with routine servicing on top.
 
hurfdurf said:
Yes.... but if you had never had that 2.5k to begin with, as many people dont, that doesn't matter...

See how it works?
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Of course it looks that way, but a decent car choice means you are simply deferring any actual loss.
I would think there are few people who are gainfully employed, who cannot access £2.5k for an important item like a car.
 
[TW]Fox;15657058 said:
What are you blabbering about, if he didnt have £2.5k in the first place where did the 206CC come from?
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He's only been here a month, be gentle with him, at the minute unless he does an in depth search and reads up on SB, he is just sticking his oar in to a deep murky pool of car badness that he has no idea how deep and unpleasant it is.
 
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