Need Help With Decision For GF's Car.

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Long story short it's a 04 plate Hyundai Getz 1.1, it's got a few advisories from the last MOT, we had some sorted last year and that cost her just over £300 to get fixed. It's now due again end of next month and wonder if it's worth spending that sort of money on it again or just scrap it? She got it Nov 11, so she obviously wanted to keep it, thus why she spent £300 on the repairs in Feb 12.

We can't really afford to get her a new car so it's a case of pay for repairs when we get quotes back or scrap it. Can't remember all of the advisories but I know one of them was rusting on the steering wheel column, might just be me, but that sounds expensive!

Advice would be greatly appreciated.
 
£300 is nothing and should be budgeted for on an older car. That's simply what happens with cars. If you scrap/sell and buy something else then you will most likely have another bill for something else.
 
I hear stuff like this all the time from the crazy people I work with.

Someone wanted to sell a 03_04 smart car for 300 because it wouldn't start, ie wouldn't turn over. It had a dead battery
 
Matt82 said:
I hear stuff like this all the time from the crazy people I work with.

Someone wanted to sell a 03_04 smart car for 300 because it wouldn't start, ie wouldn't turn over. It had a dead battery
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Not surprising really, people treat everything as disposable these days.
 
Well we weren't considering replacing it, we were just gonna do without. We only bought it for £1,050 so in 2 years would have spent over half what we paid for it on repairs. But looking at it from the other point of view yeah it could be a lot worse and we won't find anything that cheap again, it was pure luck.
 
Just take it for an MOT & see what it fails on, What have you got to lose apart from the 30 quid ?
 
Pulse said:
Well we weren't considering replacing it, we were just gonna do without. We only bought it for £1,050 so in 2 years would have spent over half what we paid for it on repairs.
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Welcome to car ownership?

If you'd paid £10k for it and paid the same amount in repairs you'd have spent about 5% of the cost in repairs... see how irrelevent this particular calculation is?

Thats like buying a £100 car and then scrapping it because you spent 80% of its value filling it with petrol.
 
Pulse said:
Well we weren't considering replacing it, we were just gonna do without. We only bought it for £1,050 so in 2 years would have spent over half what we paid for it on repairs. But looking at it from the other point of view yeah it could be a lot worse and we won't find anything that cheap again, it was pure luck.
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That's how owning a car works. Just because the vehicle itself is worth less as an object than it was when it was newer, doesn't mean it's going to cost any less to repair than it did when it was newer.
By your rationale a £200 car would be scrap if you had a bald tyre.
 
Matt82 said:
I hear stuff like this all the time from the crazy people I work with.

Someone wanted to sell a 03_04 smart car for 300 because it wouldn't start, ie wouldn't turn over. It had a dead battery
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I used to work with a bloke who did the following;

Traded in a 325i for a Quashqui because the 325i turned 3 years old.

Sold his wife's 18 month Mini back to the main dealer because a tyre and a service were £600.

Traded in the Quashqui for a Focus CC because he could get it for £4k of list price.

Traded in the Focus for a Kia Cee'd because the Focus had a slight leak which the dealer couldn't fix first time.
 
Mechanic I use, the 50 year old virgin that lives with his mother charges around £30-£60 for cambelt changes.

If it's simple like a Focus then £30, complicated stuff like the Grand Scenic where half the engine comes out or something then £60.

He's reasonable and wants £50 for the Lexus :o

Suckers:p ( No he isn't dodgy in a backstreet garage, charged £40 to do upper and lower control arms, arb bushes and rear drop links on an E39, Fox knows who I'm on about!)
 
Nothing wrong with him, just read the first line, surely that gives a good indication of the type of person he is :p His overheads are somewhat minimal.
 
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