Many many things.
In short:
Bought the Stag a hardtop because I was too tight to buy a soft top - the hardtop also required work.
Most *cheap* cars I have bought were money pits as they generally came with many issues on them. It would have been far cheaper to have bought a sound car from the start, but where is the fun in that.
Don't take me to look for cars with you LOL. I do however splash out more on cars now than I used to with my dad saying *you paid too much..." and am generally far pickier with what I deem worthy of buying.
In short:
Bought the Stag a hardtop because I was too tight to buy a soft top - the hardtop also required work.
Most *cheap* cars I have bought were money pits as they generally came with many issues on them. It would have been far cheaper to have bought a sound car from the start, but where is the fun in that.
- The Peugeot 106 GTI here was a good example - Bought for £750, spent around £400-500 fixing the bodges I thought it didn't come it (read crash repaired front end, rotten exhaust, tyres to replace the 11 year old distorted part worns fitted by the previous owner (I thought a driveshaft had gone initially!), sold it for £800...
- Triumph Stag - Bought for around £2k, and threw tripple that into it again, maybe more, and it still was sold it faults. It did go for £4.75k around 3 years later, still with problems, including the gearbox
- Dailies I have generally been OK with
- Passat - this was the daddy of all ballsups - it was meant to cost £2k all in for my dad and I to buy - I reckon a 'good' hassle free work car would have been £5k (remember it had to be less than 5 years old and Mondeo sized and also do around 1000 miles a week. In 2013 he bought it near enough blind off a friend for £1k. With an MOT and council test it cannot be that bad right? - After 4 new tyres, rear calipers with EPB motors, rear track control arms changed, camshaft and lifters along with the dreaded steering lock issue (Google B6 Passat Steering Lock) it cost a fortune and seemed to go wrong around once a week. It then was fine after the work was done. 2 weeks later the gearbox/diff blew itself to pieces and it was the final straw. Gutted at the money thrown at the car it was broken for spares (another money saving idea...) Alot of the spares I changed sold very very quickly, especially the rear brake calipers
Don't take me to look for cars with you LOL. I do however splash out more on cars now than I used to with my dad saying *you paid too much..." and am generally far pickier with what I deem worthy of buying.