Teach me bangernomics please!

p1RATE said:
Toyota Celica (Gen6 is in budget and the ST’s are great on fuel, might just about get a gen7 for that money)
Hyundai Coupe
Mercedes 190e (very light car and handles great)
BMW e36/e46 (coupe if you can find a nice one)
Honda Civic CRX
Toyota MR2
Lexus/Toyota Soarer (incredible cars for the money, v8’s are more reliable than the turbos)
Lexus GS300 or is200
possibly a Jag XJ or x type (service history is king)
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What :confused:

Bangernomics and budget of £1700 so you suggest a BMW e46 and a Jag XJ.

What?
 
Clearly spend £750 on a vw corrado from the 90's and just see what happens :D

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classif...01/postcode/al35te/quicksearch/true?logcode=p

(note being a sorn'd car this clearly wasn't the best one to link you to...)

Basically buy the cheapest car you can and see how long it survives, my polo is still going and that was a total cost of £500, no idea how much longer it will go for but it's a fun adventure!
 
I always thought the general rule was, buy cheap (<£500), and get a common reliable car (mondeo) so there are plenty cheap spares, with the most amount of Tax + MOT as possible.

Throw in executive car makes and turbo's and it's not economical motoring at all.
 
rossk26 said:
I always thought the general rule was, buy cheap (<£500), and get a common reliable car (mondeo) so there are plenty cheap spares, with the most amount of Tax + MOT as possible.

Throw in executive car makes and turbo's and it's not economical motoring at all.
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This is how it works, Seems it's lost on some people. I've only stopped doing this in the past few years. It was how I could afford to drive for a good while before.

The more toys the more to go wrong, The more exclusive the more parts cost and it's harder to find really really cheap spares in a scrap yard or on ebay etc.
 
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MatteH Oxford said:
I've picked up a 3 owner, 03 reg Alfa 156 2.0JTS sportwagon Lusso for £950. 85K miles, FSH, 11 months MOT in vgc. Black with red leather.

It even had decent amount of tread on the tyres & 5 months tax!

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I had two of these for a total of 6 years. One Twin Spark and one JTS. The JTS is better, mine covered 130k before I bought a newer car. Never had any trouble apart from a new clutch at 112k, new tyres and a suspension drop link.

Wish I had got another to be honest.
 
Bangernomics used to be old non turbo citroen diesels for £300 and the like, but the rust has got to most of them now :P

Nowadays it's all about 90's bombproof generic jap.

Go for the Prelude.
 
BAcon said:
galant ftw, mega comfy v6 for bugger all cash, my old galant (ready for the scrap heap) has been sat since january, i started it up 2 months ago for first time, fired straight away on the first click...
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Can I have some bits off it before it goes? :p
 
Just ran a vehicle check and saw something a bit odd with the plate history -

Registration .........On..........Off
J10ADD............................7 Dec 1999
P283YGG......7 Dec 1999...20 Apr 2012
SJZ1725......20 Apr 2012....17 Aug 2012
P283YGG.....17 Aug 2012

Anything to worry about with the initial J plate? Just a private plate?
 
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First owner stuck a private plate on it, not an issue.

Its also a 1k car I'm not sure id even have checked! Is this an auto? Check its smooth they aren't the best box
 
Nah manual. Figured as much but thought I'd check... the J had me thinking Japan, that's all to be honest with you (no record of import though)! Figured it was worth the £4 or whatever for a basic check.
 
The correct answer to this thread is man the **** up. No one should ever want to do 5k/yr through Edinburgh city centre, especially not now as it appears to be near on impossible from one end to the other without hitting at least one set of diversions!

In all seriousness, I'm selling my car within the month as my insurance is up and a bit of cold isn't anywhere near enough to justify the costs.

Regarding that plate, 2 numbers usually suggests to me that it's a private plate. I would have then expected P283YGG to be the original plate... but 1999 is not P reg territory (1996).
 
andrewdodd13 said:
The correct answer to this thread is man the **** up. No one should ever want to do 5k/yr through Edinburgh city centre, especially not now as it appears to be near on impossible from one end to the other without hitting at least one set of diversions!

In all seriousness, I'm selling my car within the month as my insurance is up and a bit of cold isn't anywhere near enough to justify the costs.

Regarding that plate, 2 numbers usually suggests to me that it's a private plate. I would have then expected P283YGG to be the original plate... but 1999 is not P reg territory (1996).
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Haha, don't worry its not through the centre - I'm not a masochist.

I work out at King's Buildings and most of the miles will be out on photography trips and hill walks, plus the odd trip home to Cornwall.

Car was registered and made in 1997.
 
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kaiowas said:
Can I have some bits off it before it goes? :p
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depends on what you want, i ran it into the ground, it only cost me £600 btw hence reluctance to spend money on it

From memory it needs new headers (blowing badly, so loud my mates nick named it the spitfire), several bushes on both front corners, new front discs so those wont be any good to you :P
 
Just back from seeing that prelude. Car was in good nick overall (some rear arch rust and an iffy immobiliser) and drove well but the guy/setup was pretty dodgy so left it.

Pretty sure I want a Prelude now though!
 
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