Bargain!!!

jon.bda · 3 Apr 2011 at 17:32

Picked this up a few weeks (cough) ago (hence all the dust and crap!) for my mum to replace her old Fiesta...

10 months MOT

2 new tyres

New exhaust

£100

jon.bda · 3 Apr 2011 at 17:51

It all fairness, it does have a snapped cambelt...

jon.bda · 3 Apr 2011 at 17:57

thepeganator said:
It take anything with it?
What needs doing to get it going again?

Head off, few valves...she'll be reet!!!

jon.bda · 3 Apr 2011 at 18:29

Joshy said:
Scrap car sold at Scrap value. Where's the bargain exactly?

Another £100 or so and a couple of hours of my time, it'll be a nice little runabout for my mum...seems pretty decent to me...

jon.bda · 3 Apr 2011 at 18:43

Wicksta said:
So it's not really a £100 car is it.

Find something better for say £250 then?

jon.bda · 3 Apr 2011 at 18:57

Jez said:
Totally, or a tidy profit if you sold. You should start up a sideline if you can get bargains like this on a regular basis....

Same place i got this one from has another Clio (T-reg) with HGF. Offered the same amount (scrap value) as #1 son turned 17 a couple of months ago. Its has a little more 'patina' shall we say, but hell, its for a 17 y/o after all!!!

jon.bda · 3 Apr 2011 at 19:06

Wicksta said:
I didn't say it wasn't a bargain, a bit misleading that's all.

Misleading how???

jon.bda · 3 Apr 2011 at 19:39

Joshy said:
From reading just your first post it sort of seemed as if you had bought a fully functioning, 10 month MOTed car for £100, which (given the high price of scrap nowdays) would have been a proper bargain. One with a broken engine doesn't really seem that impressive in comparison.

Jeez, you are all being so defeatist, its not that broken, its a few hours work...as above...find something better for £250

jon.bda · 3 Apr 2011 at 19:48

Wicksta said:
You are missing the point, no one is saying it's not a bargain or that you could get something better for £250. You just happened to miss out a rather large bit of information about the car in your OP that's all.

Well did you expect it to be 100% working for £100???

jon.bda · 3 Apr 2011 at 23:05

Joshy said:
It is really that difficult to believe that some people among us do not think an old clio that is going to need as least it's purchase price spending on it and about a day's worth of spannering (at least) isn't exactly the deal of the century?

At least a day?, you rebuilding the engine from the ground up or something?

jon.bda · 4 Apr 2011 at 07:19

The Funktopus said:
Currently looking to bag myself a bargain car at less than £500, which should theoretically be quite doable. However, just spent this afternoon trawling Autotrader and Ebay Motors, and do seem to be struggling a bit. As a student, I'd want it to be as cheap as possible to tax and insure too. Any tips on where else to look?

Local papers and free-ads

jon.bda · 4 Apr 2011 at 07:21

MikeHiow said:
To be fair, this car is not a bargain until it is fixed and working.

Is is entirely possible that it will require more than just a few valves, but even still, by the time you've bought valves, belts, head set, service items etc. then you're still looking at £200 in parts.

If you can prep, get the head off, cams outs, valves out, re-seat and cut in new valves, head back on, all back together and running in much less than a day, I'll eat five hats.

How much is an 11 year old, 4 generation old Clio worth? If you can do the work yourself then it's a good buy, but it is not the bargain of the century which the OP implies.

Will be a friendly machine shop doing the work on the head mate.

jon.bda · 4 Apr 2011 at 20:32

MikeHiow said:
assuming the OP can manage it all himself

Got the above, that'll do won't it?

jon.bda · 5 Apr 2011 at 07:18

MikeHiow said:
It is a guess, but an educated one.

A head set is going to be no less than £50, lets say 8 valves are going to be over £30 for eBay cheapies - more if you source them locally. Cambelt kit £65, Auxbelt £10. All these prices assume you eBay it or have a very good trade arrangement locally and that is £155 before you add oil and filter and all the other little bits like valve grinding paste etc.

£200 is almost bang on the money.

Why would i be going to eBay and paying through the nose for parts?
:confused:

jon.bda · 5 Apr 2011 at 18:03

Liampope said:
I know someone called Jon, same age, obsessed with BDAs. Didn't use to work with airships, did you?

I didn't mate!

jon.bda · 5 Apr 2011 at 18:08

MikeHiow said:
Indeed. I achieve maximum discount at two local motorfactors, and eBay is usually still a bit cheaper.

Then i suggest they may be humouring you mate!!!

jon.bda · 5 Apr 2011 at 18:33

MikeHiow said:
One of them is a very good friend, I can assure you they are not.

How much do you spend with them a month you reckon on average?

jon.bda · 5 Apr 2011 at 18:50

MikeHiow said:
My spend is completely irrelevant. My friend runs the place, in fact I get a bigger discount (established when pricing up the Clio belts and service items) than my friends garage opposite who buy 90% of their stuff from there

Like I said, maximum discount

Yet you reckon £60 for a cambelt kit?...then again, you don't know if its 8v 16v petrol or diesel do you really?. Points for effort though mate...

jon.bda · 5 Apr 2011 at 18:57

[TW]Fox;18836147 said:
If I know that, I'm pretty sure that Mike does, given he's more into Clios than I am.

If i ask him nicely, will he tell me how much it'll cost me to get the other one thats at the same place fixed???

jon.bda · 5 Apr 2011 at 19:08

Dabbles said:
Interference engine?

Oh its interfered with itself mate!