Coral of the story? Don't eBay drunk!

any idea what the running costs are on a car like this ?
how complex is it ?

ie will this car be a complete money pit ?
I own an ST220 and have just handed over £1600 to my garage for 13/14 months worth of repairs (he is terrible at producing a bill)
 
Dav4 said:
What’s the point of getting a dpf delete if they are gonna start doing physical checks soon come mot time?
Also cool car I realise they are very expensive when new but 8k seems a lot of money for a soon to be 9 year old diesel?
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The point is to try and prematurely kill as many people as possible as well as give babies and young children lifelong breathing issues.

If you have to remove the dpf then you shouldn't own one. If you want to remove the dpf then try sucking on the exhaust pipe for 5 minutes and see if that changes your mind
 
MassiveJim said:
any idea what the running costs are on a car like this ?
how complex is it ?

ie will this car be a complete money pit ?
I own an ST220 and have just handed over £1600 to my garage for 13/14 months worth of repairs (he is terrible at producing a bill)
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Holy crap what the hell went wrong with it to produce such eye watering bills? I’ve had my current 220 for 12 months covered 9k miles and spent nothing at all on it apart from a fresh 12 months Mot ready for re sale. Even on my other 220 I had a few years back I only spent a few hundred on it they are such simplistic cars
 
Dav4 said:
Holy crap what the hell went wrong with it to produce such eye watering bills? I’ve had my current 220 for 12 months covered 9k miles and spent nothing at all on it apart from a fresh 12 months Mot ready for re sale. Even on my other 220 I had a few years back I only spent a few hundred on it they are such simplistic cars
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I do 18k a year.
its done 155k now
that includes 2 fairly hefty services.
I also had the plugs replaced, brake calipers changed, rear sub frame bushes.

not sure what else as I'm in the middle of an office move so can't find the bit of paper with everything written on it.

oh and that isn't the total cost by the way, it has been to another garage as well for diagnostics (LPG Specialist)
and probably had tyres in that time as well.
 
Looks great - personally I wouldn't have gone for the LWB version unless I was the one getting driven around in it, but they're rare enough that you can't be too picky about things like that when buying. You might find yourself avoiding multi storey car parks in the future.... :p
 
Vita said:
Why didn't you buy another mg?

With regards to dpf deletes most people gut the regular box out so to an MOT tester it looks normal. There is a way to check this physically on some cars to see if it's gutted. Whether they bring that into practise I don't know.
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If the dpf is visible then it is very easy to check if it is present and hasn't been gutted. You just check the temperatures at either end, and if there isn't a temperature difference across the dpf then the contents aren't present.

There has been some talk of bringing in a requirement to scan the ECU as part of the MOT and then the tester will become very suspicious if the car hasn't performed any regen cycles.
 
[TW]Fox said:
The hint is in the new price. There is more to a cars value than whether its 'diesel' or not.
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I did giggle when I saw Fox calling out a post which was written in EXACTLY the same style as many of Fox's own posts. :D
 
[TW]Fox said:
It's just annoying though as it's so pointlessly expensive.
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I find it more annoying that the "justification" for higher emission cars being taxed more is that they pollute more, but what if they're only used as a summer weekend car or minimal miles? I've always had £240-500/yr tax cars, but only do about 6k miles. Compared to something like a 320d (recent model seems to be £30/yr tax) doing 20k motorway miles a year, surely I am doing less damage to the environment and roads, but paying over 7 times more. I've 1/2 wondered about a cheapo weekend car, but I can only use 1 car at a time, so I won't be doing many more miles, but paying potentially twice the tax (or more), yet doing little more "emissions"/damage. What a crazy system we have?!?

bring on the new single tax rate to leave the only tax variable being fuel use (which is already mentally taxed), which is surely fairer - the more you drive and/or the thirstier the car, the more petrol you use... I just hope the new single tax rate doesn't let them justify upping the tax on petrol further (but could imagine it).
 
It was the remap chap I spoke to who banged on about a DPF delete - after having a Google they're trouble free on this so it'll stay put.

Running costs wise it's absolutely ruinous if it goes wrong - but averaging 32MPG and everything seems to work... for now :p
Fantastic ride quality, and so far it's everything I'd hoped and more.
 
Same thing applied to me with "don't forum drunk"... I tend to get in weird rants over nothing... is always fun in the morning :D

That's looks like a reasonable buy, although depends what you paid.

I'm not a fan of VWs though, so wouldn't have one myself... but at least it's a 3.0 engine and not something silly small like a 1.6 or 2.0... I can't stand driving small engines anymore in a full size car.
 
mattyprice4004 said:
It was the remap chap I spoke to who banged on about a DPF delete - after having a Google they're trouble free on this so it'll stay put.
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DPFs are there to stop pollution causing more and more breathing difficulties for everyone.
Anyone deleting one 'for the gainz' or 'for the bhpsssss' is a selfish git.

EDIT: Nice car though. I do like luxury barges.
 
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skyripper said:
Anyone deleting one 'for the gainz' or 'for the bhpsssss' is a selfish git.
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I suppose then so is anyone who doesn't just drive an ecobox. Since while the likes of an M5 doesn't have a DPF to delete, it also pollutes more "'for the gainz' or 'for the bhpsssss'".

I wouldn't personally delete a DPF, unless the DPF was actually needing replaced / fix, at which point I would consider it. As much for cost reasons as for the bhpsssss.
 
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