Every time I spend money, I lose! 

You need to factor in the cost of fresh Stanley blade as well. 🤨

The cheapo stalk is something to be proud of, something to cherish and celebrate; it keeps Dumpit alive!

Enjoying Dumpit on the cheap series. Quite fancy a Dumpit tea mug to add to "the collection". 😄

I once had a Xantia indicator stalk fail in a similar way but managed to repair it. Reassembling it however did take up most of a very frustrating Sunday afternoon, with tiny springs and contacts pinging round the room until I found the trick of getting it back together in one piece. If someone had offered me a replacement stalk for £16.99 at that point I probably would have taken it!

The Dumpit Diary videos are great! Little modern "classic" car being run on a budget. It's going to be interesting to follow the Dumpit Diaries.Looking forward to the next one Mr Kitch. Keep up the great work!

I had a phase 1 diesel, non working heater and non locking doors but it was brilliant, unstoppable in snow. Loved that car

I live in the US. My current cost champion is a 2015 Prius C (like a Yaris hybrid, but a little longer wheelbase). In 9 years or 150,000 miles it has cost $400 in repairs and runs me around $50 to 60 a month in fuel for roughly 1,000 miles. With insurance in Florida (most expensive state for it) it runs me around $200 per month in total running costs.

whatever you may say cheap French cars are the best. our 306 has the same stork issue however we can't find a replacement so our solution is to press the hazard button quarter way and for some odd reason triggers the left turning signal. we love your videos love from south Africa

I've had 3 106s, a brand new 92K phase 1 1.1XT 3dr which was written off by a blind OAP when it was only 2 years old. Turns out bright red cars are still invisble at traffic lights, who knew! Then a 1996 phase 2 1.6XS in white which despite being a mere 6 months old and "Peugeot Approved" at the time turned out to be a complete dog that had been badly repaired (no Car Vertical back then). That one was eventually replaced by pre-registered but as new 1998 XS in Rallye blue which I part-chopped for a Scenic 1.9 DTi in 1999 and lost an absolute fortune on. Or at least, at the time it seemed like a fortune because the car only cost £8000 and I got £6500 for it after running it for a year. That Scenic cost £14,000 brand new which I thought was crazy money and was the first time I'd financed a car. 3 years at 0%, Heady times. I really want another 106 before they're all too far gone to run as a summer car. The breaker for me is I don't like the sunroofs and solid roofed cars aren't too common now, such was Peugeot's love affair with limited editions and the perceived need to "add pizazz" by cutting a hole in the roof and gluing in the up and over window. Enjoy.

I love economy cars and I really like your videos. None of them have been boring so far. Watching your videos about (car related) everyday life is wellness to my mind and my soul. Carry on, Kitch. And thank you! See you soon --- Martin from Germany 🚗💨🇫🇷

Be still my beating heart, can I truly cope with these levels of excitement on a Wednesday? 😂👏👍

Normally takes me quite a while of peruzing a channels videos before i subscribe, but the story of Dumpit is one that i need to stay up on, so i've subscribed early.

We ❤ Dumpit

Looking forward to future episodes man, this has something mainstream shows don't have, necessity!

Keep your eye on Euro car parts. They quite often do oil and air filters for less than £1. Spark Plugs are very cheap. Ok so it's not free but very cheap. Had my 2002 106 independence for 4.5 years and easily the best car I have owned. Sunroof drains can block leading to puddles in the footwells, inner rings rot but aside from that, mine has been bomb proof

I've only once had to replace a stalk, (I was resetting the trip with my arm through the wheel when a numpty forced me to swerve and I could not extract my arm in time). It was a Lancia Beta in 1978, it cost me £30. I've just checked the BofE inflation calculator and in todays money that's about £160. It might have been cheaper to hit the numpty.

Brilliant! I love Dumpit even more now I can see how little everything costs!

Good to see a series about a car being run on a budget 👍 I'd much rather keep that going than have something new on finance...

I'm looking forward to years of these little updates

I'm so happy for Dumpit! What a car!

Congratulations sir on your choice of motor vehicle. I used to own Y915SWR, I sold it to Ian at Hubnut last year. You mentioned a penholder on the radio surround. Put your fingers in it and pull towards you... My 106 cost me sod all for the 12 months I owned him, he cost me £500 to buy, all he needed was a driveshaft and a service. When you're finished with dumpit, give me a shout maybe?

This series is a great idea. Am looking forward to following Dumpit. Me being a bit of a perfectionist, I share you mixed feelings about the cheap and nasty indicator stalk. We’ll see how well it does..

I think we need an autopsy on the old flasher stalk to see what broke. Maybe you can sort it with super glue....

I had a Citroen ZX with the same switch. That was a nice car as well. Good luck with Dumpit.

Love the Dumpit Diary's it's going to be a good series looking forward to the next one, it's a shame it was not a Citroen C1 group2 insurance, about 50 to the gallon, road tax £20 a year.👍

What a lovely lil' silver dumpling Dumpit is!

Very nice series/ experiment concept.

Dumpit is great, love the aftermarket stalk - yes they are rubbish, but it keeps her going

Really enjoying living with Dumpit as a series. It's really refreshing compared to all this expensive insane car content on RU-vid.

Take the old stalk apart and fix. They are not complex. You will ace it

Great content

Good Luck 🍀

You turn right, right again, right once more, and then you go straight on... Who needs a left-turn indicator?

Was the original stalk a sealed unit? Would be interesting to see if it’s repairable maybe.

I Had the exact same issue on my 106 a while back. I decided to take the unit apart and discovered the problem is a worn down spring loaded pin. It is quite easy to take apart and what I did was grind a new cone on the pin so that it wil glide trought the contact rails once again. I put in a decent amount of grease, and the thing has been working very well again for the last 6 months. replacing the pin with a steel rod of the same diameter should be possible as well. You might want to try this if you don't ike the feel of the imitation model

About to read the RU-vidrs edition of PC. Then apply UnD sticker to the '79 Honda whilst having a brew in my factory fresh UnD Mug ... and low and behold Richard drops a video ... Happy Days

Already a Dumpit fan.

Great video as always Kitch ... My poverty spec Kia Picanto has the same locking ability - and I've only one key ... I'm quite careful to check I have the key with me before locking it! It would certainly up the cost per mile if I had to pay to get into it! I fitted a replacement brake light switch soon after I got it as the brake lights didn't always come on - obviously didn't buy an oem part as you don't feel or hear the brake light switch (and it's not a critical part at all ;-)

Love the philosophy of dumpit superb. Long live dumpit .!

I appreciate that you have a relationship with Dumpit, willy nilly (ooh err Missus I only just saw that), but I think you need to adjust it. She can't be a princess if she's to be truly cheap motoring. Think of her as saying, frequently, "There's many a good tune played on an old fiddle." Think of her as suggesting, for an anniversary dinner, fish and chips and a bottle of gin, sitting on the sea front. But also having the essential class to really appreciate tailoring of floor mats, especially if it doesn't cost anything (Marge Dumpit says life's too short to think about opportunity costs.) Also, loved when you lament the onerous life of a RU-vidr, and marked it with a close-up of carefully coiffed eye-brows, roots done and all.

The wonder of being able to lock the doors before you close them is also the biggest disadvantage when you lock the keys in the ignition!🤣 I did it once with the most secure Leyland Maxi in the world, because k couldn’t get into it again, nor could my friend who was a mechanic!🙄 I love this content and ‘dump it’s is great bud!

Ian would say BECAUSE FRENCH

Now time to rebuild the old stack, and reinstall it, for a 0 cost solution

Im sure the lumps are sensors for the side airbags (in later 106 GTis at least) My old T plate on a 99 had the older non airbagged seats and no lumps, my current 2001 has the airbags. I took the carpet out years ago and im sure its sensors or something related to them.

I hope you succeed in this endeavour. I wish you all the best. I’m laughing because in Victoria Australia where I am there is no such thing as a free car. We have to pay VicRoads (Aka DVLA) a transfer fee of £50 for them to transfer the registration into a new name. Then we must pay motor vehicle duty on the value of the car regardless of what we actually paid for said car. Your 2002 model 106 would have cost you about £400 in fees & duty even though you got it given to you. Also the car must have a fresh MOT within the last 60 days otherwise you the new owner will be obtain a new one before it can be registered in your name.

Cheap French cars are great, we have a 2009 1.2 Clio and I actually q enjoy keeping it going. Have to say it’s actually pretty reliable anyway

I got a cheap but brand new wheel arch liner from Autodoc (well, a subsidiary thereof) for just over twelve quid for my 2004 Yaris as I have a broken one too. Bit more once you added shipping, of course.

I don't think I've ever been so happy as a result of a Stanley knife. #TeamCutOuts

I was expecting you sound the horn while fiddling with the commodo ... some turn indicators commodo's dont like you activate them while the steering wheel is turn (like when they reset while doing a round a bout and you try to put it back on because you care for the other's ) and you feel a bad cruchy sensation ... ( FYI of some viewers ,commodo is also know as : sticks,levers,actuators,... :3

i think the stalks on a sevel van take some beating for shite feeling 😱

Parts for these can be expensive , I tend to go towards used breakers and most have a 12 months guarantee .

I can understand that the indicator switch will bug you… back in the day the fella that fixed my car (a Peugeot 104) got so tired of its shit that he insisted I see his mate in the local Yugo dealership. I reluctantly took one out for a test drive. The straw that broke this camel’s back was the stalks. They looked like those in a Fiat 127 alright. But the plastic was so cheap they bent when you hit the indicators. Horrendous…!

Dumpit's a nice wee car. I could save my BX19GTI if someone gave me a free or cheap 106 or AX. The Saxo wasn't imported to NZ

According to my Acar app, my 2014 Peugeot 3008 1.6 HDi costs 17.6p per mile to run. But if you include the cost of the car, it costs £2.88 per mile. (I've only done 1,877 miles in it since purchasing.)

Hi mate, break buy and sell these little gems as hobby so if you ever need anything like a decent stalk 🙈😂 feel free to drop me a message, just watching this as we speak 🤙

Go Dumpit

hmm, my 2014 Skoda superb I've had for 4 years I reckon works out at £0.47/mile.... surprisingly good, great video - made me do maths 🙂

Hopefully a kindly subscriber will send you a genuine and functional one from a scrap 106.

Surprised you didn’t nip to silverlake for a replacement part, of course that would rely on them having one in stock. And you’d have to factor in the travel costs, so the cheap eBay option makes sense given the aim of this series.

Are the stalks on a saxo different? I had a xsara Picasso and a c4 Picasso and I swear the stalks were the same as a 206 courtesy car I once borrowed.

.....have you considered running it on stale fuel from all your other projects! Had a Renault 11 Broadway with the similar issue, broken hi/low beam switch, took ages at my local scrappy to find a good un.

I consider that interior to be “jaunty”……

Scrap yards or vehicle recycling centres are your friends, whether on a budget or not

This is a great idea. What would of been coo maybe the next thingl is get an old diesel 106 so you could use waste oil. The prixe per mile would of been stupidly low.

Please do a Pistonheads thread on Dumpit 🙂

couldn't you try and fix the old stalk ?, and if you can , just send the cheap one back . You did say it didn't fit properly .

Do you still need a radio / head unit?

This car is a jam, hope it will work and stay for a long time! Good luck with voting tomorrow😅

Miserly Motoring Experience Love the video, but using a Stanley Knife on concrete 😮😮😮, a pet hate of mine

Surprised a used genuine part wasn't cheaper than a new copy? I suppose with a used part, you always risk exactly the same failure mode

Dumpit is giving me ideas to trade my current car.. hmm.. I miss the days of running my little Lancia ( Lucy if anyone wants to know :D ) more and more when I'm looking what my current car is costing me. It'll be premium experience they said.. yup.. thinking it isn't for me.

Don't bother trying to repair the old switch ,they fall apart as soon as you look at them then hours later after much swearing when you have managed to put it all back together again it works for a week then it shorts out and smoke fills the air especially if the lubricant in the switch catches the heat from the short ,just like Lucas in the old days . Happened to a customer of mine who was too mean to pay me to supply and fit a new unit,after he had melted his and the wiring loom I solved the problem by grafting in a salvage switch and loom from a breakers yard .

Do the same analysis on the C6. 🙂

I don't think you need to include even a nominal "purchase" price in the calculation. I doubt the comparison with the Ami includes the purchase cost or any element of depreciation.

Cracking little car

That car is begging for 1.6 8v swap. Probably find that motor dredging the local canal.

Well it’s a cheap plasticy part .. no worries, it’s not like you’ll be touching very often …🙄

Just put an Audi badge on it, then you will not need indicators !

Dumpitnomics.

What about insurance, maintenance, fuel and road tax? Not very cheap

You should only allow for depreciation which will be zero

Hah! This comment is purely to help the algorithm. Let's see what we can get for poor Dumpit.

Nasty, nasty things...

Get a used ebay approved replacement part, she deserves better

Writing ‘nasty things’ in the comments.

Fix the old one. Of get one from a scrap yard.

I don’t think you should put an imaginary price on it. With a car of that vintage and value, if you’d paid £5/6/700 for it, you’d be able to sell it for that after a year or so, giving you a net loss of £0.

Unpleasant comment £ 🤣😂🤣

nasty comment :p

Hopefully this comment earns money for you 😅

Popular topic but so boring compared to your potential rebuilds.

0:24 Haha, I used to have a budgie called cheapcheap. (spelled a bit different than this, but phonetically it sounds just like it) What are the odds? EDIT: For my 2017 Ford Focus I currently am at €0.107/km purely on fuel costs alone. Purchase price, taxes, insurance, maintenance and added mods would absolutely skyrocket this cost figure.

Buy cheap, buy twice You know that stalk will annoy you. If people send you free parts that doesn’t count against your costs