More Bangernomics...

Conanius · 29 May 2011 at 22:31

£200 quid sounds pretty impressive for a tax'd and tested car.

Friend of mine swore by cheap cars. He bought a Mk3 Astra with 12months tax and test for £200 quid a few years back and managed to run it for several years not having to spend a penny other than tax, test, insure and fuel. Never needed tyres or brakes and he didnt bother servicing it. No doubt it was a bit of a rotter, but thats pretty fantastic.

How much of a rotter is this one then? torn seats or anything that bad or just some scratches ont he paint

Dogbreath · 30 May 2011 at 03:47

Lum said:
If you are reliant on cars. Two bangers for £400 works.

It's like RAID1 for cars.

Like RAID1 using some very well used pre-Hitachi Deskstars i.e. bound to suffer a double failure at some stage...

Lum · 30 May 2011 at 04:20

The trick is to get different models so that they fail at different times.

indyskyz · 30 May 2011 at 09:18

jon.bda said:
should get about £100 when i weigh it in!!!

i got £190 for our old rover 400 last week

jon.bda · 30 May 2011 at 11:02

indyskyz said:
i got £190 for our old rover 400 last week

Not too bad at the moment is it. In total, we weighed in...

My Laguna
My mums old Fiesta
Megane Scenic
Bedford Rascal

Cut the cats off the Scenic and the Fiesta and weighed them in seperate, and the Rascal had some scrap from work in the back. Got just shy of £510 for it, might of got more at a larger place, but this place is literally a stones throw from us, so much easier than trying to get stuff with no tax or test 10/15 miles up the bypass.

mjt · 30 May 2011 at 21:51

This is proper bangernomics.
Not for me but good on you

mattyprice4004 · 30 May 2011 at 23:14

My last 620ti was only £200, and that had T+T too. They are out there - £200 for 200bhp.

jon.bda · 31 May 2011 at 18:35

mattyprice4004 said:
My last 620ti was only £200, and that had T+T too. They are out there - £200 for 200bhp.

I feel like i've paid £200 for about 35BHP at times...may need a MAF in the near future i think...

Spleenus · 31 May 2011 at 21:18

jon.bda said:
I feel like i've paid £200 for about 35BHP at times...may need a MAF in the near future i think...

you just need to know how to drive it

agree though I get caught out and pulling off can be painfully slow until the revs build!

jon.bda · 2 Jun 2011 at 20:35

Spleenus said:
you just need to know how to drive it

Yup, i think its called allowing a 1/4 mile gap in front of anything you pull out in front of just in case...and avoiding hills...

Spleenus · 2 Jun 2011 at 21:18

jon.bda said:
Yup, i think its called allowing a 1/4 mile gap in front of anything you pull out in front of just in case...and avoiding hills...

nah just need to 'drop da box' and use your inbuilt smoke shield!

Saying that my smoke shield doesn't seem to be working atm!

jon.bda · 2 Jun 2011 at 21:37

Spleenus said:
nah just need to 'drop da box' and use your inbuilt smoke shield!

Saying that my smoke shield doesn't seem to be working atm!

should have seen the Vectra C cdti we had in today for a new/secondhand turbo, James Bond would have been proud!!!