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good thread this! I have been looking for a cheap car for my bro after he totaled his 306 diesel, nothing that is insurable or handbag size. after 6 weeks found him an old 405 diesel with 220 thou on the clock, from a dealer as a trade in. Its got 11 months mot and is not bad at all, considering I paid 320 for it, it will probably weigh in for 200, so potentially he has a car for 120 quid. This does fit the bill, and would have been "Pricey" for a sh**ter 8 years ago when some yards were charging to take cars. I think you have to look at it like the old lemonade bottles -you got 10 p refund..........or a calor gas cylinder!
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I'm glad their still out there, and the fact that they are hard to find has only made me more determined to find one,it has to be diesel though. I looked at the usual routes like ebay,but i'm always too late or not looking in the right places. i never knew facebook was a place to look for old motors. Thanks for the suggestions on where to look, i'm off to find a bargain.
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They do pop up, but you need to look everywhere all the time. Admag is also a good source of cheap car's, as it's generally a certain type of seller lol. I picked up a 2000 W plate polo 1.4 (facelift) for the mrs with T&T for £480, needed some work but it only took me a weekend. Sadly the days of buying £50 car's is gone (pretty much anyway), I bought a mini once for £50 when I was 14 same car in same state would be about £500 now.
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I think perspectives change depending if you're buying and selling. I needed a short term cheap runner in the summer and ended up scratting round madly - seemed nothing was about. Bought a 205 diesel with a years MOT which was great - came to sell it on when it became surplus to needs, nobody wanted it, including on here. Sold it in the end for £300 which with £85 worth of tax and over 11 months MOT seemed pretty cheap. I think there are bargains still out there, but the well of cheap tin has dried up quite a bit. One other word of caution - I looked into weighing it in as an alternative and got nowhere - I was told that it was too old so there was no value in stripping any parts off it.
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Ads 19
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there is no value in stripping, the time involved doen't make it worth it, even newer cars just have tank drained and cats cut off. The value is in the metal itself. Granted you'd not get the £300 quid for it, but you cash in tax. and get down here £150ish scrap. £5quid or so for battery, but i assume was good so you'd keep it.
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A quick breakdown of the costs from one car alone that I broke this year: Carlton 2.0 Auto (1987) Bought for £175 after haggling the seller down from £275 then driven 130 miles home on £12 of fuel (I kid you not!) Total outlay £187 I then removed the gearbox which I was keeping for a project - the whole reason for buying the car. I sold the rear 'air' shocks for £20, the engine for £50 and weighed the car in for approx £175 (I actually got £245 on the weighbridge, but had thrown a lot of other scrap in to add to the weight so have rounded it down to a more reasonable figure). I kept the alloys and battery which were weighed in seperatley (£55 for the 5 alloys, £6 for the battery) Lets look at the total for the car: Weighed in car: £175 Wheels: £55 Engine: £50 Rear shocks: £20 Battery: £6 Total: £306 Minus my intial outlay of £187 = £119 in my pocket and a free gearbox. Now, I know this doesn't really help when you're looking for a car, but it illustrates that you can pick up cars cheap still (this was approx 4 mnths ago). The Carlton in question had only done 36,000 miles and was in superb condition other than two fuel lines that had perished and could have done with being replaced (the perished leaky bit was cut out and the shorter hose reconnected to get me home), the drivers door was dented and the window smashed (it was down when someone reversed into the door) Bascially, for very, very little money, this car could have been easily repaired and was in such a good condition everywhere else that I am confident it would have passed an MOT without any issues other than maybe new wiper blades and other such trivialities. You could run a car like that for a good year or so then still break it/weigh it in for a fair bit more than you paid for it if it ever decided to let you down. Basically, you couldn't really lose money on it at all. A years motoring or more then gain over £100 more than you bought it and repaired it for at the end. It doesn't come much cheaper than that! The car in question after being pulled out of a barn where it had been stood for 3 years: I washed/cleaned the windows, lights and reg plates, stuck some fuel in it and drove it 130 miles home. I found it after looking specifically for a Carlton Auto. If I can source one cheaply while looking at one specific make of car, imagine how many more bargains can be had if you broaden your search to any car??
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Just posted a wanted ad on facebook, i'll see what turns up.
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jonnie
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Forgive me if I've missed this, but why don't we start a Before the Scrapyard thread. Anyone that is thinking of scrapping a car can bung it in there and someone else might quite happily snap it up?
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Forgive me if I've missed this, but why don't we start a Before the Scrapyard thread. Anyone that is thinking of scrapping a car can bung it in there and someone else might quite happily snap it up? Sounds like a plan - but is that not already covered by the "RR Budget Motoring" section? We advertised our Xsara there, got some interest but no sale It ended up going to a local trader - so no doubt it's been weighed in by now. Shame as it was a decent runabout, but nobody else turned up with cash for it
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Forgive me if I've missed this, but why don't we start a Before the Scrapyard thread. Anyone that is thinking of scrapping a car can bung it in there and someone else might quite happily snap it up? Sounds like a plan to me
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Because when we look back in time that the number of good cars that have been scrapped will get tears in their eye, and the inevitable disappointment that people will have when they realise they have either missed something completely until late or taken too long and it has been scrapped.
I honestly think the budget Motoring section covers this, its just peoples opinons of what consitutes a budget car needs to move with the times a little. Hey i wish i could give away cars and pick them up for the same, but its just not the case anymore. Sorry
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Times have changed and no, you won’t find someone giving away a road legal car for £100 anymore. As has been mentioned, the value of scrap has done for that and, more importantly, the increasing amount of the public who are getting savvy to the value of old metal.
What you will find out there though, are decent, presentable cars that still have lots of use left in them for a few hundred quid. In years gone by rust would have killed many a 10 year old car, but now cars of this age and older don’t tend to have major grot problems. Instead, it’s just electrics and costly repairs to increasingly complex mechanics that’s consigning them to the scrapyard.
For example, a colleague just sold a mid-90s Clio 1.2 for £350. Tested for nearly a year, rent until January, Kenwood CD player, and new parts that included cam belt, bottom arm, bearings, couple of tyres etc. It was his daily car and only sold because another car was given to the family. Other than a couple of scuffs, it was pretty tidy. Some chancer offered £250 but he got the full £350 no problem and could of sold it all day long – whoever’s got it now is enjoying a reliable little car for absolute buttons.
Showing the current situation, our thinking was that if push came to shove, he could cash in the tax, sell the CD player for a couple of quid, weigh it in and then separately weigh in the alternator, battery and cat. Reckon he would of come close to that £250 offer this way and, more importantly, without the grief of the inevitable messers you get when selling a cheapie.
Bargains are there. They just cost a bit more - especially anything small and diesel shaped.
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well I hold this thread responsible for me now owning this. I wouldnt have gone on Gumtree to see what its like and turned this beasty up. 1 owner and all old MOT's too!
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I'll let you guys know tomorrow if this thread is responsible for me owning a subaru brat
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Ive recently purchased 2 bargains and sold a car through Facebook local groups
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Nov 10, 2011 21:43:10 GMT
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It depends on how you look at it. When I first started driving 9 years ago I bought a Corolla GTi and Golf GTi for less than £50 each and I only just got my money back for the Corolla! lol. If I'm honest though they were hardly show winners, yes they drove but they were rotted to curse word. Still bargains considering what they're worth now but lets not look at things with rose tinted specs. Some of my cars set me back at £100 but the scrap price back then would mean you'd be lucky to see £50. Also older cars are becoming more rarer, the reason you see less and less about is because they've either been scrapped or are rotting on somebody's drive, when they do come round to sell alot of people want daft money for sheds just because they're "rare". IMO quality cars have become ALOT cheaper. Look at the cars you can buy for around £1k now-BMW, Mercs, Jags, Saabs( ) this wasnt possible a few years ago. My advice would be to save another £300-400 and buy a really nice car for your money, rather than trying to find a diamond in the rough, it takes alot of time trying to find one, sometimes you get lucky, sometimes you have to wait. Because its going to be your daily I'd look to sort it sooner rather than later. Fair enough you'll pay more, but it will still be a bargain.
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Nov 10, 2011 22:44:57 GMT
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How'd you get on at Bourne Lordyoung?
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The lurker formerly known as Cappuccinocruiser.. or wedgedout..
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-Scott-
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Nov 10, 2011 23:48:13 GMT
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Keep calm and carry on
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as said by most people its the scrap value that will stop you buying a "cheap" car small cars i offer £100-150 & large cars £150-200 as i know i will get my back over the bridge if i find something to expensive to fix so you will have to offer around that as there are that many "scrap men" going about now 4 regulars on my estate & every few weeks we get a new one trying his luck as everyone has jumped on the cash for scrap !!! they are still out there but you have to work out whats scrap £200 needs £200 to put on the road cars worth £500 tops but there are a few with T&T on the net at £350-400 just need a clean !!! plus putting them over the bridge i don't get any comebacks about something not working ,i don't have to wait for the money , i get spares & they are 5 mins away from my house !!! so £300 for a car with T&T is a cheap car now & if you see a car that has no windows & has been jumped on the local kids find out who owns it offer the owner £100 & wiegh it in you might double your money for an hours work on something that no one else wants !!!
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find me on facebook to see photos of things I'm selling off !!! All Forshow or ebay all-4-show-uk
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Two of my current cars are both from Driveway 'Dealers' through Gumtree. Despite the amount of curse word the first guy fed me about the van being for carrying logs for his woodburner I googled his number and low and behold lots of car adds pop up. Some repetitiveness existed in the adds so I googled that and even more came up with different Mob numbers. Turned out the headgasket was gone. Other than that its been great(ish). Also just bought a Lupo SDi with one (terrible) owner and the doors hanging off from a Polish dealer, He admitted to being a dealer and could see I knew what I was looking at so dropped the price alot. Bought a Silvia again from Gumtree and another dodgy dealer.
Point is you do have to be very careful on Gumtree especially if you don't work on your own cars. Someone was posting up messages on Gumtree telling everyone to avoid the guy I bought the Silvia off as he had sold a Dangerous car to him for his Daughter.
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