60six
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Every saab I have owned I have had to change the clutch, or the entire clutch system. It's a vile job and can imagine those without experience of doing one give up as it appears to be impossible in places - especially when the slave cylinder packs up, or the rubber fluid hose explodes under pressure. After cleaning off brake fluid (my most hated automotive fluid) from everywhere in the engine bay I really didn't fancy trying to get hold of a secondhand pipe with rubber hose attached - and heard about AN-3 PTFE hose and fittings. It's basically a kit where you buy a length of braided ptfe hose and get various attachments - worked out about £25 for length of hose & unions/fittings. Perfect for me I thought - £90 later on top of the 25 I finally did it. Could of got three secondhand lines for that! Mismeasured the master cylinder m12 thread adapter by 1mm and broke the first attempt - had to buy a 45degree angled section to get around the spring pillar, then had to buy a longer m12 adapter and stainless steel fittings for the slave cylinder ..... This damned idea of mine took a month of me mucking about and cost me far too much, but I wouldn't give in - I couldn't give in! look at the shiny braided hose! mmmm stainless steel! Even bought a cheapo ip camera so I could see where leaks were coming from during assembly! another £30 on top of the £90! It finally works... but financially ruined this month.... What money saving ideas have cost you a fortune?    |
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Some 9000's, a 900, an RX8 & a beetle
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adam73bgt
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Buying a Saab itself was a money saving idea of mine that cost a fortune   Jag did sub 20mpg, Saab was much better. However a cam chain, clutch, bulkhead weld and various other expenses later kinda offset any fuel savings haha |
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Last Edit: Jun 3, 2016 22:39:23 GMT by adam73bgt
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Buying a Saab itself was a money saving idea of mine that cost a fortune Absolute quality |
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My wife's dream car was a Saab 900 Convertible.
After doing some home work we found a clean well maintained 900 turbo convertible.
Long story short within a year my wife knew all local tow truck drivers by their first name!!
When it was going it was not much good either. Way to hot here in Brissie for a convertible.
When we had more than enough of it a year later we traded it on a Disco but that's an whole (not so) different story again!!
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60six
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My wife's dream car was a Saab 900 Convertible. After doing some home work we found a clean well maintained 900 turbo convertible. Long story short within a year my wife knew all local tow truck drivers by their first name!! When it was going it was not much good either. Way to hot here in Brissie for a convertible. When we had more than enough of it a year later we traded it on a Disco but that's an whole (not so) different story again!! I have found over many 900's that there are only two types - Those that appear to be fantastic even after a 3 hr inspection, the only one people give you positive comments for but are complete and utter dogs breaking down in the most unusual ways - or ones that you buy to break for spares but after outrunning a Porsche Cayenne on the M25 turns into one of your top 3 cars owned ever ... and NEVER breaks down no matter how little you spend on it and how little you care for it .... |
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Some 9000's, a 900, an RX8 & a beetle
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Bought a Honda Acty as a cheap to run "as is" daily .... Becomes a project car with a full overhaul planned ...  |
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berendd
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Had the plugs changed to fancy iridium special for LPG ones with the LPG conversion for about 8€ each, they would last at least 60.000km and would improve the car, bla bla bla...
after allmost all the coilpacks breaking one by one i decided to throw in 8 new cheap plugs (2,5€ each) and 300 euro worth of used coilpacks and the coil problem was fixed
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bigdaz
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When I first got my mk2 Granada it had been sat up for about 15 years and was bad on fuel so thought rebuilding the carb would be a good idea well it took months to get it to run near right to find out I can't get an air filter so I'm going to have to fit a 38dgas so £50 service kit and the extra fuel due to it running bad, would of been better of just replacing the carb in the first place
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I'll just use the vespa to get to work this year instead of insuring the car...
Buy gear (helmet, jacket, gloves, Kevlar jeans and boots) oops there goes all the money I was meant to be saving on insurance, and the bike still doesn't have an MOT haha!
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I thought, save money by not going and out, and instead write (semi) interesting story about buying and selling a car each month... Ha ha ha... would've been cheaper to go out every night lol.
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Ryannn
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Sold my jag and bought an MR2, that's got to save on running costs as is only an engine and two seats right?! Complete money pit  |
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£90 later on top of the 25 I finally did it. Could of got three secondhand lines for that! But was it the right thing to do, ie is it a fix which will last longer than a secondhand line? |
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Wilk
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Head gasket went on my clio that I'd had from new. Now done 74k and 14 years old. Around the same time it also developed a misfire
In my safe place I reasoned to myself that it was cheaper to fit an available 65k engine for £100; complete with new water pump and timing belt fitted by previous owners garage
So £20 of diesel to collect, new fluids all around, new electronic pedal and throttle to cure the misfire, couple of days swapping engine over and 4 weeks temp insurance for £80. Auto electrician to cure the misfire that wasn't the pedal and throttle I'd bought
Seems I saved a fortune when my lad said he could get a cheap Dailey for £200
My logic saved my sanity in that at least I know this cars history and it's safe and no rust
SWMBO said I'm stubborn..... Don't know what she means lol
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If it can be fixed with a hammer, then it must be an electrical fault
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I needed a largish vehicle for 3 trips with the family this year ( Clacton, Pocklington and Devon ) but only had a budget of £500. As you can imagine, most of the tat I looked at was exactly that, then in April this happened.............  It cost me the whole budget, had a weeks MOT and looked like it hadn't been cleaned in years. On the plus side it had only done 80k, the cambelt had recently been done and it came with a huge history file. Amazingly, everything on it worked including the electric folding mirrors and both electric sunroofs ! This I'm afraid is where the good news/money saving kind of stalled a bit, as since owning (all of 2 months !) it I've had to replace both wishbones, front drop links, aux belt and tensioner,hazard light/fog light/window lock switch gear and numerous bulbs. I appreciate that all cars require such consumables, but when money is tight, trying to save it by buying something Italian wasn't my sharpest move  |
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My Saab turbo was lovely but drank fuel - 18mpg on a run I worked it out as once. So I explained to the wife that it would be cheaper to buy, insure, tax and run a Mini for work and use the saab at weekends. I found a nice mini, but it was an auto, so after having it for a year I thought I would get better economy out of a manual than the auto, so I bought a new engine and gearbox from a breakers, it would be rude not to rebuild the engine right? and while its apart it might as well get it lightened and ballanced, and then the machine shop offered me a set of powermax +60 thou pistons for cheap, daft not to fit a fast road cam then, and double valve springs of course, but the block wasnt suitable for the overbore, so I had to get a replacement block... It was a great engine when I finished it, and it used 25% less fuel than the auto. Till the big end bearings failed (Wrong oil) and I bought another mini to tide me over while I replaced the bearings.   |
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I bought a MG ZT, before you all say it no it was the one with the KV6, so haha I've sneakily dodged the expensive HGF bullet there... I am a genius!! Erm maybe not, replaced no 2 cylinder/plugs/belt/water pump/4x reseated tyres/new ignition switch/2x VIS motors/clutch & slave. To cap it all off I ruined it with a cheap aftermarket exhaust like a chav Safe to say it was not my CROWNing motoring glory... Still it's the 3rd best car I've owned in terms of driving enjoyment...  |
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I think most of us will have these money saving ideas which turn out to cost a fortune. For me its probably spending too much on my dailies. I get a car to smoke about in, and end up replacing all the little niggles on it, so it ends up costing me a small fortune.
For example, my 205 will be getting the front and rear suspension sorted, along with possibly a wheel bearing and anything else suspension/steering related once I'm dismantling the thing.
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1993 Fiat Panda Selecta
2003 Vauxhall Combo 1.7DI van
2006 Mercedes Kompressor Evolution-S AMG SportCoupé
"You think you hate it now, wait til you drive it"
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randomeddy
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I got some work for a couple of months paying big bucks, our petrol daily at the time had mega miles on it (just one of the excuses I trotted out to the wife to make it sound like a good idea to get another car).
A turbo diesel sounded like a good idea, they do about 600 mpg don't they. I always fancied? (for some reason) a VW Bora and one popped up 'cheap' on Gumtree.
It was cheap (£250) because it needed a new clutch, but it did not just need a new clutch it needed new most things, it turned into a money pit. It never let me down but it was slow, never did more than 45 mpg, and when it started to use water it had to go.
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Have you been mis-sold TDi.
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60six
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Jun 12, 2016 15:01:46 GMT
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£90 later on top of the 25 I finally did it. Could of got three secondhand lines for that! But was it the right thing to do, ie is it a fix which will last longer than a secondhand line? It feels ok, but I have not considered if the amount of fluid in the new braided hose will be the same as the steel - and if that will matter/make a difference? Only time will tell..... |
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Jun 12, 2016 15:14:25 GMT
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Buying a V8 to convert to LPG to enjoying filling up for half price.
Swapping from a 50mpg cavalier diesel to a Lwb diesel landrover because it was tax exempt and cheap to insure..
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